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"The Los Angeles fires represent a seminal moment for the climate crisis – and for journalism. These are not the wildfires of seasons past."
- CCNow co-founders @markhertsgaard and @kylepope for @guardian
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The young people who sued Montana for a healthy environment and alleged that the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies played a role in climate change have won their case. theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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Imagine a world where it gets so hot that there are warnings not to go outside. It might sound like a scenario from a scifi movie, but that's what happened in Vietnam yesterday, where temps broke all-time records with a high of 44.1C (111.38F) bit.ly/3M4NQUJ
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Now more than ever, journalists need to be aware of coordinated efforts to misinform the public on climate change. We partnered with @CAADcoalition to produce this graphic series highlighting 7 tips for combatting climate change. 🧵
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“In this joint op-ed, mother and daughter climate activists say that this work should be a family affair.” Parents should show up “not just at their [kids’] sporting events and graduations, but also in this critical moment for their futures...” teenvogue.com/story/march-to…
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Media coverage of climate protest focuses heavily “on the disruptive tactics of the activists rather than the urgent climate message driving their actions,” and ignores the criminalization of protest in the US and globally, according to a new @MMFA study. mediamatters.org/broadcast-n…
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Everyone should read this powerful piece in @TIME on the Maui wildfires by @KanielaIng. It’s one of the very best articulations of how colonialism and the extractive economic transactions it enables interact with the #climatecrisis. time.com/6305817/maui-wildfi…
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📢 Announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! Grab your 🍿 and follow this 🧵 in which we'll be revealing the winners in all categories.
#CCNowAwards🏆
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📢 Announcing the journalists and media outlets from around the world selected as finalists for the second-annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! 🧵 #CCNowAwards
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Trump “can do damage that will last, in human terms, forever — damage that will be visible in the geologic record for eons to come. His actions can literally help melt the poles and raise the oceans,” writes @billmckibben for @thenation… bit.ly/4bZUhTx
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We're so excited that our new #CoveringClimate documentary co-hosted by @NBCNews @AlRoker + @WatchSavannah airs TONIGHT on @WORLDchannel + YouTube at 8pm US ET. We hope you'll tune in or stream it. Watch + Join the Conversation: bit.ly/climateburningquestio… #BurningQuestions
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📣 Announcing the journalists and media outlets from around the world selected as finalists for the 3rd-annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! 🧵 #CCNowAwards
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🥁 📣 We are THRILLED to announce the 2024 CCNow Journalism Award winners! 👀 this thread to see this year’s best of the best in climate journalism. We’re starting off strong with our esteemed Journalists of the Year...
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Journalists, “the way you report climate is going to have an impact in the quality of life for the planet for the next several decades. So no pressure...!” - @CFigueres @OutrageOptimism #ClimateChangesEverything
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Will we act in time? New #CoveringClimate documentary features extraordinary climate journalists telling stories of struggle + resilience from around the world. Hosted by NBC News’ @AlRoker + @WatchSavannah. Watch 10/25 on @WORLDchannel bit.ly/climateburningquestio… #BurningQuestions
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CALLING ALL JOURNALISTS! Announcing the @CoveringClimate Now Journalism Awards. Honoring great storytelling that is rooted in science, humanizes climate change, empowers audiences, and holds power to account.
Apply today: bit.ly/3nIFrbI
RT + help us spread the word!
ALT The first annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards will honor exemplary coverage of the defining story of our time. Submissions of journalism that was published or broadcast in 2020 anywhere in the world will be accepted through June 1, 2021. Winning entries will feature great storytelling that – among other strengths – is rooted in science, humanizes climate change, empowers audiences, and holds power to account. The jurors will recognize work that communicates the many dimensions of the challenge; that highlights and scrutinizes solutions; that calls out disinformation and self-dealing; and that recognizes the disproportionate impacts that climate change has on communities of color and the poor. Entries (in English) will be accepted from news organizations or individual journalists from every corner of the newsroom who are producing coverage in print, digital, audio, video, and multimedia formats that report on all dimensions of the climate emergency, especially its solutions.
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"For too long, the climate fight has been limited to scientists and policy experts. While we need those skills, we also need so much more. When I survey the field, it’s clear that what we desperately need is more artists." @MaryHeglar thenation.com/article/enviro…
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Here at #CCNow, we help journalists produce more informed and urgent climate stories. This week's wildfire smoke & very unhealthy air in the Northeastern US presents an opportunity for journalists to make the connection with climate change. Here are a few examples we applaud...🧵
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The Atlas Network, a coalition of think tanks that receives funding from the ExxonMobil Foundation, uses its influence to vilify climate activists with ripple effects across government, law enforcement, & the media. @onthemedia talked to @amywestervelt:
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📣 Journalists! The #CCNowAwards honor work from reporters in every corner of the newsroom that communicate the many dimensions of the #ClimateEmergency, the defining story of our time. Apply by March 15: bit.ly/3wO0nn4
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If you’re a journalist new to the climate beat or a reporter wisely looking to bring a climate angle into your stories, this guide is for you. It’s adapted from the work of renowned climate scientist and communicator extraordinaire, @KHayhoe coveringclimatenow.org/resou…
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Here’s a textbook example of “greenwashing” + corporations making it seem like climate change is a symptom of everyday people's inaction. Journalists beware!
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“‘I'm not giving up,’ @ChrisGloninger says. ‘I'm just switching roles to do even more of it.’” npr.org/2023/06/27/118446126…
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"I don’t think people need to give up what they’re passionate about to tackle climate change. I think they need to figure out how to connect what they’re passionate about with the climate crisis. Because this is the work of our lifetimes." - @NaomiAKlein theguardian.com/books/2023/f…
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The American Petroleum Institute has spent ~half a million dollars to running FB ads that take aim at Democrats by name, warning that the reconciliation bill — one of Biden's biggest climate policy efforts — will wreck the US economy. By @HirokoTabuchi nytimes.com/2021/09/30/clima…
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📣 It's your favorite time of year again... #CCNowAwards season! We are thrilled to announce the WINNERS of the 3rd annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! Grab your 🍿 and follow this 🧵 to find out who won... coveringclimatenow.org/award… #CCNowAwards 🙌
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Deforestation in the Amazon has fallen by almost 50% in one year under Brazil President @LulaOficial (bit.ly/3Si9iHK). As much of the world heads to the polls in 2024, it's a stunning reminder of how crucial voting can be to curbing climate change coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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CALLING ALL JOURNALISTS! The 2022 #CCNowAwards submission period is now open. We invite reporters from around the world & across newsroom beats to submit their work as we celebrate exemplary coverage of the defining story of our time. Apply today: bit.ly/3oit5Zo
ALT We’re thrilled to announce that the second annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — presented with the Columbia Journalism Review — are now open for entries! We invite journalists from around the world and across newsroom beats to submit their work as we celebrate exemplary coverage of the defining story of our time.
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“These are not isolated heat events; this is what the turbo-charged climate change world looks like.” bit.ly/3rF15DK by @guardian
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A thought for journalists: today’s Supreme Court decision is not just “a blow to Biden’s agenda,” it’s a blow to humanity and the planet, given our very slim time to act on climate change. Politics-first framing does a disservice to the impact of this ruling🌎🔥.
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Increasingly sophisticated fossil fuel PR campaigns are making climate disinfo more difficult for journalists and the public to spot. This explainer looks at 5 of the industry’s go-to disinfo tactics. By @amywestervelt and @kylepope for @guardian… theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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"This decision of the state of California is a commitment to take down the single biggest contributor to the climate crisis: the fossil fuel industry." - Tom Goldtooth, @IENearth bit.ly/45w5B6K
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“The bad news is, dangerous climate change has arrived...the good news is, we can prevent it from getting worse. The latest science tells us that if we bring our carbon emissions down to zero, the planet stops warming up.” - @MichaelEMann coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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Ahead of the next IPCC report (to be released later this month) scientist @MichaelEMann & @SaleemulHuq, director of @ICCCAD in Bangladesh, will brief reporters on the best climate science you’ve probably never heard of. In collaboration w/ @sciam, RSVP: coveringclimatenow.org/event…
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"There's no excuse for being a reporter today who doesn't understand the basic science of COVID -19, why is it not the same for climate change?"
Everyone should be a climate reporter. If you're not already, you will be. - @emorwee on @ReliableSources
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🧵 Books about climate you should be reading...
ALT Climate Books Worth Reading (More to come... We'll keep adding to this thread each week with our recommended 'book of the week' from our #ClimateBeat newsletter.)
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an agriculture journalist is a climate journalist
a business journalist is a climate journalist
a ________ is a climate journalist
Fill in the blank.
Covering Climate Journalism Awards entries due March 1. That's in a week! ✨ APPLY: coveringclimatenow.org/award…
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📣 The 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards Call For Entries is open! The awards will honor excellent reporting on critical dimensions of the climate story. Work published or broadcast in 2023 anywhere in the world is eligible. Learn more + submit your work! bit.ly/3OnN6uI
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NEW: We’re kicking off a Q&A series with journalists covering climate! First up, @amywestervelt on getting started on the climate beat, how journalists can keep up with a fast-moving disinformation ecosystem, and the many joys of archival research. coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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Emotional fatigue is the 3rd largest obstacle to reporting on #climatechange according to @SEJ members.
Journalists: How do you cope with this very real challenge?
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Since 2017, at least two-dozen lawsuits have been filed by states and local governments against oil companies for climate-related damages, and this week the US Supreme Court ruled that the cases could proceed. By @emmaricketts3 at @InsideClimate insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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Extreme heat kills more people in the US than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined.
But you wouldn’t necessarily know that from some of the photos often accompanying articles about dangerous heatwaves.
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Too often journalism focuses on protesters’ tactics and not the problems they’re drawing attention to.
Join @billmckibben and @keerti_gopal for a chat about how journalists can serve their audiences by covering activists as the newsmakers they are.
RSVP:
coveringclimatenow.org/event…
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TODAY we are announcing 39 finalists for the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards honoring exemplary reporting on the defining story of our time with a special that will stream here in early October! Sign up to watch: coveringclimatenow.org/award… #CCNowAwards
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#ICYMI we partnered with @GuardianUS on their Climate Crimes series, interrogating the central question that emerges from numerous big oil lawsuits: is the climate crisis, in fact, a crime scene?
An ongoing 🧵 of the excellent coverage:
Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene.
We're partnering with @guardian on their “Climate Crimes” series, examining how fossil fuel companies have thus far escaped culpability—& the dozens of lawsuits that now seek to change that. 1/7 coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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In covering the latest #IPCC report, the challenge has been two-fold: to give the report the prominence it deserves amid the war in Ukraine & to convey the findings in a way that connects with audiences & doesn't overwhelm them with unrelenting gloom.
So how are we doing? 🧵
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Averting climate catastrophe on a global scale would be “essentially impossible” if Donald Trump is re-elected, @MichaelEMann says. #ClimatePolitics2020
*available for republication by #CCNow partners*
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"We all need to believe that humanity can defuse the climate emergency—& recognize that that is not mere wishful thinking. A growing mountain of empirical evidence supports that conviction; look no further than @ProjectDrawdown." Our latest Climate Beat: coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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“Wildfire boils down to 3 ingredients: a warm & dry climate, fuels to burn & a spark. Wind is an accelerant & has been a player in almost all of the recent...disasters. The same is true in Lahaina, but there are some other overlooked factors at work.” wapo.st/3DST6WJ
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Journalists must make the climate connection when reporting on #HurricaneIda - here's some simple language to help. coveringclimatenow.org/resou…
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Join leading journalists + climate experts from around the 🌎 for an unprecedented conversation about how to cover the climate crisis in ways that drive attention + impact while highlighting solutions + justice.
Register Now: tinyurl.com/ccnowconf
ALT The effects of the climate crisis are all-encompassing. The media response to it should be as well. Coverage has improved since the Covering Climate Now global journalism collaboration was founded in 2019, but there is much more to do. - Hear from newsrooms that have transformed to meet the moment, and those that aspire to; - Discuss whether news outlets should be taking fossil fuel advertising dollars; - Explore how to make the climate implications of the 2024 elections, both in the US and internationally, clear to audiences; - Learn from journalists working with frontline communities; and, - Share innovative approaches to covering climate solutions and reaching audiences in fresh and resonant ways. This is a moment of historic opportunity for journalism and the climate story. Climate coverage around the world is better than it has ever been. But so much more is needed: more energy, more creativity, more commitment. Let’s forge a powerful path forward — together.
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"THERE'S NO LONGER ANY NEED TO ASK IF HEATWAVES ARE INFLUENCED BY CLIMATE CHANGE"
(Sorry for yelling.)
@shannonosaka @grist grist.org/science/is-climate…
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✨Full page spread in the @nytimes for climate journalism ✨
Watch “the oscars of climate coverage” tonight on @nbcnewsnow 11pm ET / 8pm PT
@CJR @nbcnews @nationmag @nowthisnews @guardian #CCNOWAwards
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“It’s great that YouTube is taking action to stop the spread of misinformation about Covid-19. But the disinformation promoted by fossil fuel-funded climate change deniers is just as rampant, and ultimately more deadly." - @MichaelEMann
By @DavidRVetter forbes.com/sites/davidrvette…
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Climate 🤝 Labor
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Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene.
We're partnering with @guardian on their “Climate Crimes” series, examining how fossil fuel companies have thus far escaped culpability—& the dozens of lawsuits that now seek to change that. 1/7 coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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There is an overwhelming amount of books, reports, and institutes devoted to climate. We’ve distilled it down to the essentials including work by @ayanaeliza, @DrKWilkinson, @jeffgoodell, @NaomiAKlein, @ProjectDrawdown + more.
Anything we're missing?
coveringclimatenow.org/resou…
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Demonstrations today at 90 sites are billed as first major action by older activists. "It’s not fair to ask 18-year-olds to solve this." -@billmckibben @thirdact theguardian.com/environment/…
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Audio/Radio Winner: @amywestervelt! Drilled Season 3: The Mad Men dug into the deep historical roots of the fossil fuel industry’s long record of using disinformation to deny climate change. @CriticalFreqPod
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“On January 1, the moment he is sworn in as president of Brazil for a second time, Lula da Silva will become perhaps the most important person in the worldwide effort to confront the climate emergency.” - @jamesnorth7 @thenation
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NEW: A new study indicates that most Americans support fighting climate change. But they don’t speak out bc they assume, mistakenly, that most of their fellow citizens don’t share their view — an assumption that gets reinforced if the media stays quiet.
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The goal of Not Too Late is found in its subtitle. Their main message: Individuals alone can do little to prevent climate breakdown — but by joining with others, they can literally change the world. haymarketbooks.org/books/200…
ALT Journalists may find especially useful the book’s “extremely incomplete list of climate victories” and an insider’s account of how Global South activists and governments inserted the 1.5-degrees Celsius target in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Publication date: April 4.
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“@MichaelEMann, one of the most eminent climate scientists in the world, believes averting climate catastrophe on a global scale would be 'essentially impossible' if Donald Trump is re-elected.” - @markhertsgaard #5Days
@GuardianUS: theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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Ecofascism: Naomi Klein Warns the Far Right’s Embrace of White Supremacy Is Tied to Climate Crisis democracynow.org/2019/9/17/n… via @democracynow #CoveringClimateNow
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Almost 200 countries have agreed to a new set of goals and targets to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by the end of the decade. Great reporting from @CarbonBrief on how the negotiations in Montreal unfolded and all of the key outcomes from #COP15 carbonbrief.org/cop15-key-ou…
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🏆 This award is given to three journalists who made remarkable contributions to climate storytelling in the previous calendar year, and whose body of work in general represents the highest standards of our profession. ⤵️
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Opinion: “As long as we keep investing in, subsidizing and cleaning up after the fossil fuel companies, they’ll keep happily passing on these exorbitant costs to us. Isn’t it time to send this bill to the right address?” latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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“Accountability isn't just ‘a’ climate solution, it actually has to be the first one.” - @amywestervelt @WeAreDrilled drilled.media/accountability…
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NEW: In the United States, only 26 percent of the public is “alarmed” about climate change. One reason why? Less than a quarter of the public hears about climate change in the media at least once a month.
By @markhertsgaard & @kylepope
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Ahead of #EarthDay, our partners are exploring how the erosion of democratic systems the world over is impacting our ability to solve the climate crisis.
A 🧵 of the coverage (+ the project page to bookmark here): coveringclimatenow.org/proje…
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Government databases specifically exempt agricultural operations from their greenhouse gas accounting. That's a problem, says @KHayhoe: “We have to know where all our emissions are coming from.”
An analysis by Inside Climate News, building on work by Climate TRACE, shows that tracking cattle emissions, site by site, is doable. But government databases specifically exempt agricultural operations from their greenhouse gas accounting.
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NEW: One of the biggest obstacles to avoiding global climate breakdown is that so many people think there’s nothing we can do about it. But climate science actually *doesn't* say this.
@markhertsgaard @SaleemulHuq and @MichaelEMann explain:
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The climate book of the week is NOT TOO LATE. Most of this anthology’s contributors are women, and activists, including co-editors @RebeccaSolnit and @Thelma_Lutun. haymarketbooks.org/books/200…
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Former UNFCCC Executive Secretary @CFigueres says that if fossil fuel companies “are only going to be [at #Cop28] to be obstreperous and to throw spanners into the system they should not be there.” #ClimateChangesEverything
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Many journalists have long echoed what we thought was the scientific consensus: Even if greenhouse gas emissions stop, global temperatures will keep rising for 30 to 40 more years. But in fact, the latest science doesn’t say that. Let's discuss: bit.ly/PressBriefing2_7
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Tens of thousands of rooftop solar arrays have been installed in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria, & early reports show that some of those systems were able to continue producing solar energy after the grid went down.
@mariagallucci for @CanaryMediaInc:
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#MustRead @Guardian interview with @NaomiAKlein about climate change, climate activism, and climate justice. "We need responses that are truly intersectional." Read more:
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Our book of the week is @JeffGoodell's well-timed new release that comes out on July 11. The veteran journalist and @RollingStone correspondent makes a searing case that most of us think about extreme heat all wrong, and to disastrous effect. #MustRead
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A casual social media user might get the impression the fossil fuel industry views itself as a social justice warrior- at least based on its recent marketing material. Researchers are starting to call these campaigns “discourses of delay”. @amywestervelt theguardian.com/environment/…
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@Tahtone, editor-at-large at @grist, expertly covers the intersection of Indigenous rights and climate change. He led an investigation into how public land-grant universities in the US, built on stolen land, benefit enormously from fossil fuels: grist.org/project/indigenous…
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Will we act in time? New #CoveringClimate documentary co-hosted by @NBCNews @AlRoker + @WatchSavannah explores who is paying the price while world leaders wrangle + corporate interests resist change. Watch Tuesday 10/25 on @WORLDchannel bit.ly/climateburningquestio… #BurningQuestions
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A revision of climate science buried in the last IPCC climate report finds that global temperatures can be reduced faster than we thought. Read the op-ed by @markhertsgaard
@SaleemulHuq and @MichaelEMann washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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"So we're watching climate change make things hotter in the Pacific Northwest."- @alroker getting straight to the point on the @TODAYshow.
Are you/your colleagues making necessary climate connections on air? Send us your clips! We're putting something together 🔥
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"If the rain forest disappears, planetary warming would accelerate, possibly at catastrophic speed. But President Lula, with help from his Workers Party and Brazil’s impressive environmentalist movement, can slow the burning and silence the chain saws." thenation.com/article/enviro…
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Here's how and why to frame coverage of the massive new #WillowProject oil drilling project around what scientists say is needed now. coveringclimatenow.org/clima…
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“People need to understand that the African people have solutions that will change the world.”- @vanessa_vash. @TIME #CCNow buff.ly/3erMNu5
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Strong editorial from @LATimes Editorial Board: “It should be obvious by now that fossil fuel companies have no real plans to change in response to the climate crisis. And that the only way forward is without them.” latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Hey #ClimateTwitter
It’s almost time for #COP27 👀🔥🌍
This thread will act as the home for resources, events & stellar journalism before, during, and after the conference. Check here for updates and maybe a mood-reflecting meme or two…
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Earlier this month, 44 Japanese weathercasters and meteorologists — some from Japan’s largest TV networks — issued a joint statement pledging to help improve the public’s understanding of the climate crisis. huffingtonpost.jp/entry/stor…
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@audreycerdan, climate editor at @Francetele, prompted her network to replace its traditional evening weathercast with Journal Météo Climat, or “weather-climate report.” The segment was a hit with audiences, and helped boost France Télévisions’ ratings. piped.video/watch?v=3M_VBN5k…
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For decades, illegal small-scale gold mining has destroyed forests + polluted water bodies in Ghana despite efforts to put a stop to it. Led by @JoyNewsOnTV @erastus4lif, this resourceful media crew took considerable risks to report on the current reality. piped.video/watch?v=8wE8ya-p…
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“Unless political freedoms are defended, there will be no meaningful climate action. Not in Egypt, nor anywhere else. These issues are intertwined, as are our fates.”
@NaomiAKlein in @theintercept on the moral responsibility of attending COP27 in Egypt:
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A new beginning for climate reporting cjr.org/covering_climate_now… via @cjr
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Fox News continued its history of climate denial this summer, despite unprecedented heat worsened by human-caused climate change.
To counter Fox, news orgs must be unified in making the #climateconnection to extreme weather events.
@theodorejay @mmfa:
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