Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller, Karen Finney, Democratic Strategist, and Katie Pavlich,Townhall.com join Thom Hartmann for the top issues of the week.

Thom sits down with Dr. Lester R. Brown, President-Earth Policy Institute / Author or co-author of more than 50 books, his latest is "World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse"

Right now - sea levels around the world are risng at a faster rate than at any other time in the last 2000 years. That's just the latest inconvenient truth coming from the world's leading environmental scientists And it's clear this is a result of man-made global warming - because for much of the last 2000 years - sea levels were stable or rose at a fraction of a millimeter each year.That was until the turn of the 19th century - when we found a way to harness ancient sunlight like coal and oil for energy - and spew billions of tons of dirty greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Since then - sea levels have been rising at more than 2 millimetrs every year - and speeding up. This conclusion comes on the heels of a new report by leading oceanic scientists who warned that thanks to gloa warming and pollution - the oceans are turning more and more acidic and threatening to wipe out half of all aquatic life around the world - an extinction not seen on the planet in the last 55 million years. So given all these dire warnings of a rapidly changing planet that could kill or displace billions of people around the planet - why are our politicians not doing anything about it? And more importantly - why is our news media not holding them accountable for this inaction? Al Gore knows why. In the most recent edition of Rolling Stone magazine - Gore penned an essay titled, "Climate of Denial" on why it is that global warming is still questioned in America - and not viewed here as a fact ...

Stephen Webster, Senior Editor-Raw Story, joins Thom Hartmann. Is President Obama illegally spying on American journalists? That's what Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times reporter James Risen says in an affidavit he filed earlier this week. After publishing a book detailing the CIA's mission to sabIran's nuclear program - Risen claims the CIA started monitoring his incoming and outgoing calls to discover his sources. His surveillance began under the Bush administration and continued through the Obama administration. Risen argues that the CIA campaign against him will, "have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the United States." So how is this allowed to happen in a nation that's supposed to have freedom of the press?