Podcasts about covering climate now

In den letzten Jahren gab es eine ganze Reihe von Studien, die zeigen: Deutlich mehr Menschen befürworten den Kampf gegen die Klimakrise und fordern Massnahmen von ihren Regierungen, als sie selbst glauben. «Covering Climate Now», ein globales Netzwerk von Klimajournalist:innen, will mit der Kampagne «89 percent project» auf diese verzerrte Wahrnehmung aufmerksam machen. «treibhaus – der klimapodcast» gehört zu den Partnermedien dieser Kampagne. Mit der aktuellen Episode wollen wir deshalb der Frage nachgehen, woher diese verzerrte Wahrnehmung kommt, dass wir, die mehr Klimaschutz fordern, zu einer Minderheit gehören. Um Antworten zu finden haben wir mit dem Verhaltensökonomen Armin Falk von der Universität Bonn gesprochen.

The City of Greater Shepparton followed the earlier lead of other municipalities, declaring a "climate emergency" in 2020, passing the motion on the casting vote of the then mayor, Cr Seema Adullah.Shepparton climate activists are concerned that the new council, elected last year and whose climate credentials are unknown, will move to see that 2020 reversed, just as has been the case at Mornington: "Mornington Peninsula council scraps climate emergency plan".On April 22, the organisation that has been set up by journalists for journalists, "Covering Climate Now", organised and staged a webinar with a panel of three, moderated by the Audience Editor from Covering Climate Now, Theresa Riley, which discussed "The Future of Climate Activism".A poem from Ashanti Kunene stunned the audience with her act of provacation and the opening of the "Systemic Investing Summit 2025".Former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, ignited the San Francisco "Climate Week Conference" when he compared some Trump administration actions to those of Nazi Germany.And The Guardian covered the same issue: "Al Gore draws parallels between Trump 2.0 and early Nazi Germany in speech".From The Washington Post: "For Earth Day 2025, here are simple planet-friendly activities that people can incorporate into their lives, starting with their morning shower."Again from The Washington Post: "This Earth Day, there are some reasons to be hopeful about the climate".

More than 55 years after the first U.S. Earth Day was celebrated in small towns and cities by people of all political stripes, the term “environmentalism” conjures different connotations today. Media coverage might have something to do with it. Daily Yonder reporters Claire Carlson and Julia Tilton are joined by Meg Haywood Sullivan and Amelia Joy of Nature Is Nonpartisan, a new organization working to reframe the narrative about protecting the planet.Meg and Amelia, who come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, discuss the exclusion of rural environmentalists from the media, the climate culture wars, and the irony of being disconnected from community in the age of social media.To learn more about Nature Is Nonpartisan, visit natureisnonpartisan.orgThis story is part of The 89 Percent Project, an initiative of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Learn more about the initiative at 89percent.orgPhoto: Claire Carlson/Daily Yonder.

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 21ST 2025Produced by Vivien Langford "YOU ARE NOT ALONE"This episode of the Climate Action Show is part of the 89%Project, an initiative of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The idea is that although between 80 and 89% of people worldwide want more effective climate ACTION they do not know that they are the majority. At the National Press Club Lunchin April, Greens Leader Adam Bandt reassured voters concerned about the climate crisis, by repeating... "You are not alone." Knowing that we are the majority could create a social tipping point that motivates action.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69TTh__Npw With the headlines predicting minority goverment after the coming election, we explore what a hung parliament might achieve taking the urgency of the 89% to those who want to keep business as usual. 1.We will hear extracts from Allegra Spender's Climate speech in Parliament in May Allegra urges the government to get off fossil fuels, to stop opening new coal and gas projects, and to move as quickly as possible to renewables. She criticises the Labor Government's lack of a future gas strategy. She argues that their increase of fossil fuel projects creates more climate pollution and is a great disappointment for those who hoped for better.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTodgadZupg  2. Nick Ward standing for the Greens against Independent Allegra Spender in the Sydney Seat of WentworthOur community is facing significant challenges, from housing affordability to the pressing need for climate action. The scourge of racism and antisemitism will weigh heavily on this campaign. I believe in proactive, evidence-based solutions that address these issues head-on. I aim to bring a fresh perspective to Wentworth, advocating for Greens policies that reflect our shared values of fairness, sustainability, and community well-being. 3. Hannah Thomas standing for the Greens against the PM in the Sydney seat of GrayndlerIn 2022 she wrote in Independent Australia"Tuesday was also a heartbreaking day for the most vulnerable of individuals, children, standing up against the state in the courts of the colony. The Full Federal Court unanimously overturned an earlier finding that the Minister for the Environment has a duty to take reasonable care to avoid causing personal injury to children when deciding to approve a coal mine extension.The decision was essentially a green light to the Government and corporations to continue wrecking the climate in the face of overwhelming evidence that doing so would have catastrophic consequences for children.All of the evidence of the existential threat posed by climate change, and the fact that climate change is caused by fossil fuels, was accepted by the Court. And yet, the Minister for the Environment, who holds enormous power and discretion to perpetuate climate change, was found to owe nothing to the children whose futures are being irreparably harmed by climate change.I have no doubt that any number of legal experts would be able to defend each of these decisions based on the most sophisticated of technical arguments. But who cares about finessed points of law when ultimately, these decisions are all patently unjust to anyone with a functioning moral compass?" 4. Music by Eskimo Joe "Say Something" " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWeAspTz0g   

My central Shepparton home in northern Victoria, Australia, was not impacted by the 2022 floods that inundated much of the city. Shepparton is central to the Goulburn Valley and is part of the Nicholls Federal Electorate, which is one of the highest-risk areas in Australia. The Goulburn Valley is on a riverine floodplain. Insurance was the topic of a recent webinar organized by the organization, "Covering Climate Now". Climate change is evolving to become a worldwide catastrophe for the insurance industry as discussed in the story from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia"; "Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We're Not Ready for It."; "Trump Wants to Unleash Energy, as Long as It's Not Wind or Solar"; "Orange rivers, longer days: Nine ways our planet changed in its hottest year yet"; "What time to leave the beach before scorching heat turns to wild winds"; "On Friday, we got above freezing"; "The PM's Climate Speech we've been waiting for"; "Floating solar project converts former gravel pit into 20 MW power generating pond"; "3 reasons to fear humanity won't reach net-zero emissions – and 4 reasons we might just do it"; "Marble Bar flooded after 100mm of heavy rain, major WA highway reopens"; "Don't call me teal: meet the Climate 200-backed candidate set to take on Peter Dutton"; "Disasters Are Exactly the Time for Urban Planning"; "Wanting to ‘return to normal' after a disaster is understandable, but often problematic"; "As Trump Targets Biden's Environmental Justice Initiatives, Activists Gear Up for Legal Fights"; "Should Los Angeles be in such a rush to rebuild after the devastating wildfires?"; "The Dissonance of Climate Promises at Davos"; "Donald Trump Exits Paris Agreement, Again: What It Means for the U.S. and the World?"; "A Novelist Imagined a Climate-Driven Wildfire Burning LA, Then Watched It Happen"; "Conservation Won Big Under Biden. Environmentalists and Tribal Leaders Fear Trump Will Undo Those Gains"; "California leaders reject Trump administration order to allow immigration enforcement in schools"; "EVs account for 9 out of 10 new passenger car sales in Norway in 2024"; "How the Climate Crisis Became an Insurance Crisis"; "The Next Financial Crisis: Insurance"; "I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary"; "Wild weather brings spectacular dust storm to Onslow in WA's Pilbara"; "The Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story"; "Are we smart enough for democracy?"; "Why Trump's Positions on EVs Would Shoot America in the Foot"; "New York's Congestion Pricing Could Worsen Traffic in Poor Neighborhoods"; "Will the Steady State Economy Be Funded?"; "The World Revolution Can Use a Crowd-Sourced Global Policy Cloud"; "Sustainability reporting is the problem, not the solution (or: The case against CSRD)"; "‘We've been dumbed-down': Australian farmers want the right to repair their own tractors again"; "The Nature Conservancy pledges to continue honoring the Paris Agreement"; "5 ways Project 2025 appeared in Trump's presidential directives"; "Building for conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training."; "The tourist beach town where the ocean threatens a way of life"; "Four homes lost as fires threaten multiple communities across southern WA"; "UK climate and nature bill dropped after deal with Labour backbenchers"; "How the world has responded to Trump's Paris climate agreement withdrawal"; "Storm Éowyn hits UK and Ireland: 1,000 flights cancelled amid ‘danger to life'"; "

Afflicted by the tyranny of the immediate journalists around the world, report on conflicts and try to tell their stories about the tragedy of war while integrating the exploding costs of climate change. No one group is more aware of this challenge than those behind Covering Climate Now and so to further understand this dilemma it staged the press briefing "War and Climate Change". Neta C. Crawford, who was at Brown University when she wrote the paper: "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War" was one of three reporters on the panel. Following that theme was an opinion piece from Politico Magazine by Sherri Goodman and Leah Emanuel: "Why You Won't Hear the Military Arguing About Climate Change".

Dr Friederike Otto (pictured), a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, was one of two speakers at a recent event staged by "Covering Climate Now". The press briefing staged by Covering Climate Now was aimed at equipping reporters with the knowledge and confidence to report the story; the story that is climate change. You can view the event: "Press Briefing: How Do We Know Climate Change Fueled That Storm?" here. Also, check out the "World Weather Attribution" website.

Prof. Koonin is an American theoretical physicist and former director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU, as well as a professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU School of Engineering. In the past he was the Chief Scientist of BP's oil and gas division, served as Under Secretary for Science in the Department of Energy, in the Obama administration, and was the vice-president of Caltech, one of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world. Steven is the author of the book “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters”, where he argues that while there are some basic facts about climate change that experts agree upon, the meaning of those facts is not so settled, and mainstream scientific studies do not support the notion that there is any kind of climate crisis at all. From Efrat Fenigson: “I cover politics, health, climate, money, economics & bitcoin, propaganda, and more. From time to time I cover the state of affairs in Israel, the broader picture of global events, and our role as sovereign citizens.” This conversation discusses Climate Realism - the sane approach to the “Climate Change” alarmism, and the role of media in shaping public perception. We touched on topics such as the use of the term 'climate denier,' bias in the energy industry, the challenges faced by young scientists who question the climate narrative, the role of journalists in spreading misinformation, and the influence of organizations like the UN and Covering Climate Now. We talked about the viral documentary 'Climate the Movie' and censorship attempts. Lastly we touched on the funding dynamic in climate research, and geoengineering / chemtrails. Steven emphasizes the need for open scientific discussion and the importance of prudence in considering these interventions. We end with the challenges & optimism in maintaining integrity and truth-telling in a corrupted world. Tom's Twitter: https://x.com/TomANelson  Tom's Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/  Tom's links: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1  Efrat's Twitter: https://x.com/efenigson Efrat's Telegram: https://t.me/efenigson Watch/listen on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/yourethevoice Support Efrat's work: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/efenigson⁠ Support Efrat with Bitcoin: https://geyser.fund/project/efenigson -- CHAPTERS – 00:00 Coming Up 01:14 Introductions 03:54 Challenging the Term 'Climate Denier' 06:43 The Climate Discussion "Silence" 09:03 Impacts on Those Speaking Out 10:53 Steven's Evolution to Climate Realism 16:33 Misrepresentation of Facts 21:37 Organized Online Propaganda 27:34 Climate - The Movie 32:03 Geoengineering & Chemtrails 41:10 Red Team, Blue Team 44:33 Dating CO2 in Deep Ice 45:55 Playing Bongos with Richard Feynman 49:06 Message of Hope

My guest today is Prof. Steven Koonin, co-hosted with Tom Nelson - host of The Tom Nelson Podcast. Prof. Koonin is an American theoretical physicist and former director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU, as well as a professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU School of Engineering. In the past he was the Chief Scientist of BP's oil and gas division, served as Under Secretary for Science in the Department of Energy, in the Obama administration, and was the vice-president of Caltech, one of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world. Steven is the author of the book “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters”, where he argues that while there are some basic facts about climate change that experts agree upon, the meaning of those facts is not so settled, and mainstream scientific studies do not support the notion that there is any kind of climate crisis at all. This conversation discusses Climate Realism - the sane approach to the “Climate Change” alarmism, and the role of media in shaping public perception. We touched on topics such as the use of the term 'climate denier,' bias in the energy industry, the challenges faced by young scientists who question the climate narrative, the role of journalists in spreading misinformation, and the influence of organizations like the UN and Covering Climate Now. We talked about the viral documentary 'Climate the Movie' and censorship attempts. Lastly we touched on the funding dynamic in climate research, and geoengineering / chemtrails. Steven emphasizes the need for open scientific discussion and the importance of prudence in considering these interventions. We end with the challenges & optimism in maintaining integrity and truth-telling in a corrupted world. ► If you got value, please like, comment, share, subscribe and support my work. Thank you! -- SPONSORS – ►► Get your TREZOR wallet & accessories, with a 5% discount, using my code at checkout (get my discount code from the episode - yep, you'll have to watch it): https://affil.trezor.io/SHUn  -- LINKS – Prof. Koonin's book - Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters: https://www.amazon.com.au/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matters/dp/1950665798   Climate: The Movie: https://rumble.com/v4klh96-climate-the-movie-the-cold-truth.html  Tom's Twitter: https://x.com/TomANelson  Tom's Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/  Tom's links: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1  Efrat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/efenigson Efrat's Telegram: https://t.me/efenigson Watch/listen on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/yourethevoice Support Efrat's work: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/efenigson⁠ Support Efrat with Bitcoin: https://geyser.fund/project/efenigson -- CHAPTERS – 00:00 Coming Up 01:14 Introductions 03:54 Challenging the Term 'Climate Denier' 06:43 The Climate Discussion "Silence" 09:03 Impacts on Those Speaking Out 10:53 Steven's Evolution to Climate Realism 16:33 Misrepresentation of Facts 21:37 Organized Online Propaganda 27:34 Climate - The Movie 32:03 Geoengineering & Chemtrails 41:10 Red Team, Blue Team 44:33 Dating CO2 in Deep Ice 45:55 Playing Bongos with Richard Feynman 49:06 Message of Hope

We hear journalists Keerti Gopal, a New York City-based reporter covering activism and grassroots mobilisation in the climate movement, and author educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben discussing coverage of climate activism.  These recordings are from a webinar ‘Talking Shop - How to Cover Climate Activism' moderated by Kyle Pope from Covering Climate Now. 

From “packs of wolves” spreading disinformation online, to death threats, these women have paid a high cost for their climate advocacy work. As a family physician, Dr. Melissa Lem knew she could not stay silent on the dangers of climate change once she started to learn more. Climate advocate Tzeporah Berman waded into Alberta politics and got more than she bargained for. When Judy Wilson, former chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band, spoke out about a pipeline expansion, she says she started noticing strange things. We're re-sharing this documentary by producer Molly Segal, which recently won an international journalism award from Covering Climate Now.

Mark Hertsgaard is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Hot: Living through The Next Fifty Years on Earth. Hertsgaard's reporting, essays, and other writing have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, TIME, The Nation, The Guardian, and Scientific American. He is the co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now. His new book is Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America. Mark explains how the mainstream news media's institutional culture and failings helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism and the global climate emergency. He also shares how he keeps his hope tank full and the importance of being a marathon runner and not a sprinter in these times of great challenge and peril. And Mark reflects on America's tragic relationship with guns, violence, the color line, and the moral courage and witnessing of his blood sister Deborah “Big Red” Cotton and how they are forever tied together after being shot at the same second line parade in New Orleans, in what was the worst mass shooting in that great city's modern history. Chauncey DeVega is compelled to walk to Trump Tower aka Trump's Obelisk of Evil here in Chicago during a rainstorm on Saturday where he reflects on the aspiring fascist dictator and now felon being found “guilty” in his historic hush-money election interference trial, and what that may mean or not for the present and future of American democracy and society. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow

Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now, and the author of Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America (Pegasus, 2024), shares the story of Deborah “Big Red” Cotton, an African American racial justice activist, who forgave the young Black men who shot her when they fired into a second line parade in New Orleans, a shooting in which Hertsgaard himself was injured -- and what that shooting and her response to it taught him about race and violence in America.

As 2024 kicks off, energy and climate policy discussions loom large in Washington. With the added complexity of the November presidential elections in the U.S., it remains uncertain what will happen regarding the increasingly partisan issues of environmental regulation and green industrial policy. The Biden administration plans to continue implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, but Republicans in Congress could take action to hinder further progress. And government agencies, like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, could be significantly impacted by the Supreme Court's ruling on a case that questions agencies' ability to enact regulations.  So, what can we expect to happen in the nation's capital on the energy and climate front this year? And where are the reporters who follow this beat going to focus their attention?  This week host Bill Loveless talks with journalists Jennifer Dlouhy and Justin Worland about what they're keeping an eye on this year, and how Democrats and Republicans might approach major energy policy issues.  Jennifer is an energy and environmental policy reporter at Bloomberg News. Before joining Bloomberg in 2015, she was the Washington correspondent for the Houston Chronicle where she covered energy and environmental policy with a special focus on oil and gas. Justin is a senior correspondent at TIME, where he covers climate change and the intersection of policy, politics, and society. In 2022, he received Covering Climate Now's inaugural Climate Journalist of the Year Award.

On this week's Truth to Power, we bring you an important community conversation about the Ever-Shifting Landscape of Climate Misinformation. Organized by Covering Climate Now (https://coveringclimatenow.org/), this July 13, 2023 discussion moderated by Amy Westervelt features: 1. Melissa Aronczyk, professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University and co-author of the book "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-strategic-nature-9780190055356?cc=us&lang=en); 2. Jennie King, head of Climate Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and co-founder of Climate Action Against Disinformation (http://www.caad.info); and 3. Marco Silva, senior journalist for BBC News, specializing in climate change disinformation, in conversation. For more, see https://www.isdglobal.org/explainers/commercial-disinformation-product-service/ On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove to the Earth's atmosphere and back again in the form of floods and fires. That's why true stories of individuals and families experiencing the fallout of the climate crisis can be so impactful. They help us relate to each other on a more direct level, the way humans naturally do: person to person. Covering Climate Now Journalism Award winners Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler bring those stories to light.  This episode was produced in collaboration with Covering Climate Now. Guests:  Carolyn Beeler, Environment Reporter, Editor, The World Naomi Klein, author, social activist For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/audio/naomi-klein-and-carolyn-beeler-covering-big-ideas-and-personal-stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove to the Earth's atmosphere and back again in the form of floods and fires. That's why true stories of individuals and families experiencing the fallout of the climate crisis can be so impactful. They help us relate to each other on a more direct level, the way humans naturally do: person to person. Covering Climate Now Journalism Award winners Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler bring those stories to light.  This episode was produced in collaboration with Covering Climate Now. Guests:  Carolyn Beeler, Environment Reporter, Editor, The World Naomi Klein, author, social activist For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/audio/naomi-klein-and-carolyn-beeler-covering-big-ideas-and-personal-stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove to the Earth's atmosphere and back again in the form of floods and fires. That's why true stories of individuals and families experiencing the fallout of the climate crisis can be so impactful. They help us relate to each other on a more direct level, the way humans naturally do: person to person. Covering Climate Now Journalism Award winners Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler bring those stories to light.  This episode was produced in collaboration with Covering Climate Now. Guests:  Carolyn Beeler, Environment Reporter, Editor, The World Naomi Klein, author, social activist For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/audio/naomi-klein-and-carolyn-beeler-covering-big-ideas-and-personal-stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove to the Earth's atmosphere and back again in the form of floods and fires. That's why true stories of individuals and families experiencing the fallout of the climate crisis can be so impactful. They help us relate to each other on a more direct level, the way humans naturally do: person to person. Covering Climate Now Journalism Award winners Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler bring those stories to light.  This episode was produced in collaboration with Covering Climate Now. Guests:  Carolyn Beeler, Environment Reporter, Editor, The World Naomi Klein, author, social activist For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/audio/naomi-klein-and-carolyn-beeler-covering-big-ideas-and-personal-stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manka Behl, senior correspondent at The Times of India and one of three winners of Covering Climate Now's "Journalist of the Year" award talks about her climate reporting, and the start of the UN Climate Ambition Summit, while Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review and chairman and co-founder of Covering Climate Now reflects on the state of climate journalism, including how well the beat is covered in the United States and elsewhere in the world.  

Alleen Brown, climate journalist, talks about "Climate and Punishment," a groundbreaking project for which she and her colleague Akil Harris received a 2023 Covering Climate Now journalism award. The project, which includes stories published by The Intercept, explores the effects of climate change and related disasters on prisons and incarcerated people within them. → Climate and Punishment

In honor of Climate Week, Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, talks about related events in the city, including Sunday's climate march, plus introduces his group's journalism awards, which honor the best climate journalists and their work. Plus: Amy Westervelt, climate journalist and the executive editor of Drilled, a multimedia climate accountability reporting project and one of Covering Climate Now's climate journalists of the year, talks about her work and how it fits into climate coverage.

As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week at its NYC headquarters, we kick off Climate Week with a look at the aims of climate protesters, and their detractors. On Today's Show:Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, talks about related events in the city, including Sunday's climate march, plus introduces his group's journalism awards, which honor the best climate journalists and their work. Plus, Amy Westervelt, climate journalist and the executive editor of Drilled, a multimedia climate accountability reporting project and one of Covering Climate Now's climate journalists of the year, talks about her work and how it fits into climate coverage.

As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week at its NYC headquarters, we kick off Climate Week with a look at the aims of climate protesters, and their detractors. On Today's Show:Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, talks about related events in the city, including Sunday's climate march, plus introduces his group's journalism awards, which honor the best climate journalists and their work. Plus, Amy Westervelt, climate journalist and the executive editor of Drilled, a multimedia climate accountability reporting project and one of Covering Climate Now's climate journalists of the year, talks about her work and how it fits into climate coverage.

TONIGHT I will be in Iowa City this Thursday night! Come out to the show See JL Cauvin and I co Headlining City Winery In Pittsburgh PA on Oct 11 Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gai Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative journalist and executive producer of the independent podcast production company Critical Frequency, which specializes in reported narrative podcasts. In 2020 she was executive producer of Unfinished: Short Creek, a co-production between Critical Frequency and Stitcher that was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and received a Wilbur award for excellence in religion reporting. In 2021, she led the reporting and production teams of This Land S2—an investigative, narrative season revealing the various forces behind efforts to unravel tribal sovereignty in the U.S.—which was nominated in April 2022 for a Peabody Award. Her investigative climate podcast Drilled, a Critical Frequency original production, was awarded the Online News Association award for excellence in audio journalism in 2019 and Covering Climate Now's award for excellence in audio journalism in 2021. In 2015, Amy received a Rachel Carson award for women greening journalism, for her role in creating a women-only climate journalism group syndicating longform climate reporting to The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Economist, and many more outlets. A 20-year veteran investigative journalist, Westervelt's earlier work for NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and various other outlets earned her Edward R. Murrow, ONA, and Folio awards as well, and is often cited as amongst the earliest examples of accountability reporting on climate.   Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an increasing rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it's hard to find a public space that wouldn't be near it anymore. Corporations are suing protestors and NGOs, comparing protest to organized crime. Governments are growing increasingly comfortable branding environmental protestors as “domestic terrorists” or instruments of “foreign influence,” and going after the nonprofit status of environmental nonprofits. And so far the media is largely participating in the rhetorical “othering” of protestors, opting in most cases to focus on the disruption that protest causes rather than the change it seeks, and to marginalize activists. In this print and audio series we'll take an in-depth look at how climate protest has evolved in recent years, where this backlash is coming from, how it's grown so quickly, and what it feels like to be someone who's concerned enough about the future of humanity to join a protest, only to find themselves facing police violence and several years in jail. We've worked with reporters on almost every continent to cover this trend from as many angles as possible and trace how particular tactics and ideas have spread across borders. The result is more than two dozen print and audio stories that we'll be releasing over the next several months. Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe

Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, offers a look at what the debt ceiling agreement means for key climate measures and how climate-related policy is shaping up as an election issue. 

In order to reach an agreement to avoid a US government default, negotiations included some measures that could have an impact on the federal government's climate policy.  On Today's Show:Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, offers a look at what the debt ceiling agreement means for key climate measures and how climate-related policy is shaping up as an election issue.

On this week's program, we bring you a Covering Climate Now press briefing from April 13th that features three leading experts in conversation about perhaps the most pressing issue humanity faces today – i.e. wide-scale global decarbonization of our economy and what's needed to keep alive the Paris Agreement target of only 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming. Moderated by Covering Climate Now's Executive Director and The Nation magazine's Environment Correspondent, Mark Hertsgaard, this conversation features insights from: • Mustafa Santiago Ali, Executive Vice President of the National Wildlife Federation • Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor of the Global Forest Coalition • Kelly Levin, Chief of Science, Data, and Systems Change for the Bezos Earth Fund This webinar was recorded and is available at https://www.youtube.com/@CoveringClimateNow Covering Climate Now is a global journalism initiative committed to strengthening coverage of the defining story of our time. Our partners include over 500 news outlets with a combined audience approaching 2 billion people. Learn more and stay informed at https://coveringclimatenow.org/ Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent.  https://twitter.com/neilwinton1 https://www.wintonsworld.com/ Wintonsworld Electric Car Test Range Data https://www.wintonsworld.com/electric-car-test-range-data/ When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Rising Temperatures. I Was Wrong https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/when-i-covered-climate-change-for-reuters-i-thought-co2-was-to-blame-for-rising-temperatures-i-was-wrong/?highlight=neil%20winton 00:00 Introduction 00:42 Writing about global warming at Reuters in the 1990s 01:54 More laziness than conspiracy 02:32 Covering Climate Now propaganda 03:43 Banned on LinkedIn for climate realism 04:53 Reporting both sides for Reuters in the 1990s 06:36 Mismatch between hype and reality on EVs 07:24 Driving more than 20 EVs; getting press car for a week 08:05 Less range than advertised 12:09 Trying to make EVS as good in every way as ICE cars? 13:06 Hard to make money on small EVs 14:06 Battery replacement half the cost of a new car? 14:52 Small, affordable EVS could make sense in town 15:30 EV fire danger? 17:21 Warm periods in the past 18:56 Industry in Europe has "just gone along with" climate hysteria 20:11 97% of scientists allegedly agree, so shut up  22:12 Attenborough propaganda 26:16 CBDCs 28:55 His blog 30:44 Musk Tesla range figures based on only 55 mph? 32:02 Battery swapping 34:23 Small, cheap Chinese EVs 35:23 Boris Johnson virtue-signalling 38:28 For EVs, the whole long distance scenario is a nightmare 40:15 Coal-powered German EVs 41:10 EVs are not zero-emission cars 42:07 Tires on heavier EVs wear out faster 42:51 How to pay for roads? 45:33 Forcing people out of their cars —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative journalist and executive producer of the independent podcast production company Critical Frequency, which specializes in reported narrative podcasts. In 2020 she was executive producer of Unfinished: Short Creek, a co-production between Critical Frequency and Stitcher that was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and received a Wilbur award for excellence in religion reporting. In 2021, she led the reporting and production teams of This Land S2—an investigative, narrative season revealing the various forces behind efforts to unravel tribal sovereignty in the U.S.—which was nominated in April 2022 for a Peabody Award. Her investigative climate podcast Drilled, a Critical Frequency original production, was awarded the Online News Association award for excellence in audio journalism in 2019 and Covering Climate Now's award for excellence in audio journalism in 2021. In 2015, Amy received a Rachel Carson award for women greening journalism, for her role in creating a women-only climate journalism group syndicating longform climate reporting to The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Economist, and many more outlets. A 20-year veteran investigative journalist, Westervelt's earlier work for NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and various other outlets earned her Edward R. Murrow, ONA, and Folio awards as well, and is often cited as amongst the earliest examples of accountability reporting on climate. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWFEBRUARY 27TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford PRESS BRIEFING  THE CLIMATE STORY IN 2023. This is an  edited version of the  webinar from COVERING CLIMATE NOWPress Briefing | The Climate Story in 2023 — Covering Climate Now Thanks to :Mark Hertsgaard -  American journalist and the co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.  author of seven non-fiction books, including Earth Odyssey (1998) and Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (2011). Dr Saleemul Huq - International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka, BangladeshTaxing air travel could fund climate victims | International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Bill Mc Kibben - Author and Co Founder of 350.org. and  Who we are - Third ActFrom Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution | The New Yorker Dr Marcia Rocha - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris Did you know that the average household in the United States has a new “bank account” of $8,000 to spend on clean energy, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act?Or that irreversible tipping points, notably in the Amazon rainforest, are approaching much faster than scientists had expected? And that 2023 will bring much more extreme weather, as El Niño turbo-charges climate change?Or that the world is making surprising progress on loss and damage compensation to the highly vulnerable countries bearing the brunt of climate impacts? Or that positive tipping points offer reasons for hope?These are some of the takeaways from  Covering Climate Now press briefing, “The Climate Story in 2023.” Three leading climate experts addressed journalists from around the world:Below are highlights from the event. McKibben  reports that The nonprofit "Rewiring America" has calculated that, “in essence, the IRA creates an $8,000 bank account for every American household” to buy things like heat pumps, window retrofits, and electric vehicles.McKibben also shared that climate activists this year plan to increase pressure on banks financing fossil fuel companies, starting with a day of protests on March 21. This will be March 27th in Melbourne Don't NAB our future: March from NAB Headquarters - Move Beyond Coaland online Digital storm targeting NAB bank decision makers online - Move Beyond CoalMarch 19th Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it). Online talk, 19 March 2023 - Action Network In Brazil, local deforestation and global warming are “driving the Amazon to a … self-perpetuating drying cycle,” said Rocha. “Almost 70% of the Amazon is … eating itself. It's effectively dying much more than growing.”  Dr Marcia Rocha added that “The good news is that effective policy” could reverse this trend before the world's biggest rainforest reaches an irreversible tipping point. Deforestation fell by 70% from the early 2000's until 2016, she noted, before surging under then-president Jair Bolsonaro. The newly elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vows to halt deforestation. That is a tall order but central to global climate survival, making it a story that journalists everywhere should follow. Rocha also urged journalists to cover new thinking on “positive tipping points” — developments that drive self-reinforcing progress towards rapid decarbonization. For example, in Norway public policies have made electric cars cheaper than gas ones, leading more consumers to purchase them; now, over half of the country's new car sales are electric. Pointing to the devastating floods in California, Dr Saleemul Huq said that climate loss and damage is “a global phenomenon … happening every day somewhere in the world,” Journalists, wherever they live, should “watch your weather channels and connect it to climate change.” Huq also responded to climate scientist James Hansen's new forecast that average global temperature in 2024 will hit (at least temporarily) the 1.5-degrees-Celsius limit stipulated in the Paris Agreement. Nevertheless, it remains essential to limit the overshoot of 1.5 degrees C, said Huq, which means that countries “must stop using fossil fuels as quickly as possible.” A bright spot: The $9 billion that international donors pledged on Monday to help Pakistan recover from last summer's epic floods “is a very significant amount of support” that bodes well for future climate compensation to vulnerable countries, said Huq, who helped negotiate the loss and damage agreement at COP27. Negotiations over loss and damage continue, and Huq advised that journalists wishing to cover them should “follow the UNFCCC Glasgow dialogue on loss and damage” taking place in Bonn, Germany, from June 7 to 11, to prepare for COP28 next November. 

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 CLIMATE ACTION SHOW NOVEMBER 21st , 2022Produced by Vivien Langford THE MODERATE FLANK    and LOSS and  DAMAGEGuestsMark Hertsgaard from Covering Climate Now on Loss and Damage at COP27Interviews with Nicolas Haque in Senegal and Lagipoia Cherelle jackson from Samoa. Nick Breeze from Climate Genn  on "The Moderate Flank"Duscussion with professor Rupert read and  Culture Change Strategist Paddy Loughton

Delegates from around the world are en route to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Better known as COP27. The conference lasts from November 6th to the 18th. These COPS are key moments for international climate diplomacy.  And since the 2015 Paris Agreement, it is the main mechanism in which countries renew, review, and assess their progress towards the Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming to at least 1.5 degrees celsius. In this episode, we give a preview of the key stories, debates and outcomes expected to drive the agenda in Sharm el Sheikh with a Twitter Spaces roundtable we recorded on Thursday, November 4th with guests Pete Ogden, Vice President for Energy, Climate, and the Environment at the United Nations Foundation, Nisha Krisnan,  Director for Climate Resilience in Africa with the World Resources Institute, Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of Covering Climate Now and the environment correspondent for The Nation, and Dr. Omnia El Omrani, the first ever Youth Representative for COP27.  

Nicolas Haque, roving correspondent for Al Jazeera English and a winner of the Covering Climate Now journalism award, talks about the economic - but also cultural - costs of climate migration.

The president of the World Bank faces mounting pressure to resign amid accusations of climate change denial, as members of Congress call for his immediate removal from office. Guests: Mark Hertsgaard, Executive Director of Covering Climate Now and Environment Correspondent for The Nation; Daniel Runde, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Author of "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power"

Recent headlines: Temperatures in Europe This Week Smash All Historic Records. Lake Mead Plummets to New Low. Only ‘Rapid Action' Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction in 250M Years. UN's Leading Climate Scientists Call Latest Climate Report Nothing Less Than “Code Red for Humanity.” Here's my conversation with MARK HERTSGAARD, co-founder/Executive Director of Covering Climate Now. a global journalism initiative committed to to helping “news media cover the defining story of our time with the rigor and urgency it deserves.” We'll get an update on the crisis as well as efforts to report it well enough to turn things around.

Recent headlines: Temperatures in Europe Smash Historic Records. Lake Mead Plummets to New Low. Only ‘Rapid Action' Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction in 250M Years. UN's Leading Climate Scientists Call Latest Climate Report Nothing Less Than “Code Red for Humanity.” Here's my conversation with MARK HERTSGAARD, co-founder/Executive Director of Covering Climate Now. a global journalism initiative to help “news media cover the defining story of our time with the rigor and urgency it deserves.” Mark's also the environment correspondent for The Nation and author of several books including HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. We'll get an update on the crisis as well as efforts to report it well enough to turn things around. 

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Dr Aaron Carroll is one of my closest friends and one of the finest people I know. He is one of the most reasonable and thoughtful guys as well. He is a professor of pediatrics and associate dean for research mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also vice president for faculty development at The Regenstrief Institute. And now Aaron is the Chief Health Officer at IU. Dr. Carroll's research focuses on the study of information technology to improve pediatric care and areas of health policy including cost-effectiveness of care and health care financing reform. He is the author of The Bad Food Bible and the co-author of three additional books on medical myths. Check out Aaron's amazing New Podcast Series! In partnership with the National Institutes of Health, we've launched a new series on the culture of science and reproducibility.   Subscribe to his YouTube Channel Buy his books Read him at The NY Times   Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative journalist and executive producer of the independent podcast production company Critical Frequency, which specializes in reported narrative podcasts. In 2020 she was executive producer of Unfinished: Short Creek, a co-production between Critical Frequency and Stitcher that was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and received a Wilbur award for excellence in religion reporting. In 2021, she led the reporting and production teams of This Land S2—an investigative, narrative season revealing the various forces behind efforts to unravel tribal sovereignty in the U.S.—which was nominated in April 2022 for a Peabody Award. Her investigative climate podcast Drilled, a Critical Frequency original production, was awarded the Online News Association award for excellence in audio journalism in 2019 and Covering Climate Now's award for excellence in audio journalism in 2021. In 2015, Amy received a Rachel Carson award for women greening journalism, for her role in creating a women-only climate journalism group syndicating longform climate reporting to The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Economist, and many more outlets. A 20-year veteran investigative journalist, Westervelt's earlier work for NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and various other outlets earned her Edward R. Murrow, ONA, and Folio awards as well, and is often cited as amongst the earliest examples of accountability reporting on climate. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

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Mark Hertsgaard, environment correspondent for The Nation and the executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now, and Justin Worland, senior correspondent at Time covering climate change and the intersection of policy, politics and society, discuss how their organizations cover news about the environment and climate change.

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) took the national spotlight as the lead manager for the second impeachment trial of the former president. As a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he has grilled fossil fuel executives on the industry's long history of intentionally misleading the public. And as a constitutional law professor, he has offered deep insight into the connections between an informed citizenry and a robust democracy. At a time when many Americans doubt Congress's ability to get anything done, what are the government's strongest levers for climate action? And what are the connections between climate and democracy? This story is part of ‘Climate & Democracy,' a series from the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Guests: Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative, Maryland's 8th Congressional District  Heather McGhee, Board Chair, Color of Change; author, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Rebecca Willis, Professor, Lancaster University; author, Too Hot to Handle? The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) took the national spotlight as the lead manager for the second impeachment trial of the former president. As a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he has grilled fossil fuel executives on the industry's long history of intentionally misleading the public. And as a constitutional law professor, he has offered deep insight into the connections between an informed citizenry and a robust democracy. At a time when many Americans doubt Congress's ability to get anything done, what are the government's strongest levers for climate action? And what are the connections between climate and democracy? This story is part of ‘Climate & Democracy,' a series from the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Guests: Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative, Maryland's 8th Congressional District  Heather McGhee, Board Chair, Color of Change; author, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Rebecca Willis, Professor, Lancaster University; author, Too Hot to Handle? The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine shoes, meat , vodka,  jet fuel and concrete using captured carbon as an essential key ingredient. The technology is already here. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Simply stated, what's better for plants and wildlife is better for the climate. Author Paul C. West explains where we need to begin and why. This story originally appeared in  The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette, In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable. This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

Does hearing about another species going extinct make you feel angry? Author John R. Platt thinks that is a good thing. This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Everything that has ever been created by humanity began as a thought, a dreaming, an imagining. Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible is the beginning. Ms Heglar explains. This essay originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Climate change and environmental destruction have inspired court cases around the country and the globe, aimed at protecting the natural world. Journalist Katie Surma gives us a brief history and provides us hope for Earth's future. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.