"The way it happened was the equivalent to flipping the bird, frankly, to the rest of the world ... on an issue about which they felt so deeply." That is how former New Jersey governor and the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Christine Todd Whitman describes the U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto agreements in this film from Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

As more and more Americans look for a response to the realities of climate change, Frontline correspondent Deborah Amos investigates the political decisions that have prevented the United States government from confronting what is one of the most serious problems humanity faces today.

Tuesday, 4/22/08 from 10-11 p.m. ET