Our next installation of the Overheated series features prominent journalists parsing through climate science.
Dear John -
Are you ready for the next event with Busboys & Poets and Citizens' Climate Lobby – DC? This will feature prominent journalists on the climate beat at the Busboys in Takoma. Mother Jones, Data for Progress, and TIME will be represented.
With such an extraordinary amount of information bombarding us every day, it can be hard to choose reliable, evidence based news sources when it comes to climate change reporting. Similarly, mountains of data can be hard to distill down to a few key findings for the general public. Reporters can face harassment and intimidation for probing the most egregious climate offenders, and stories that take months of hard work to research and write can be trampled over in the blink of an eye by soundbites, scandals and clickbait. How do we, as readers, determine what constitutes good, honest climate journalism, and how do hard-working climate reporters combat the opaqueness of their subjects?
CCL Book Club
The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
By Naomi Klein
The CCL-DC book club meets monthly to discuss readings around climate action.
Book Description: "With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented 'ecological conversion,' Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis."
CCL-DC is taking part in Sierra Club's Ward 2 candidate forum on the environment! We’ll ask the candidates their positions on zeroing out DC’s greenhouse gas emissions, diverting waste from landfills and incinerators, expanding sustainable transit and making sure our rivers and our drinking water are clean.
This event is free and open to the public, but we ask that you register in advance.
February 6, 630pm
Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th Street NW
Join Citizens' Climate Lobby to multiply our efforts on climate change. We will plan events, strategize on lobbying, and coordinate action. Don't miss this conversation with like-minded climate advocates!
Join the DC chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby as we write letters to the media about climate change. Take the media narrative around climate into our own hands.
