Episodes
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
CCL Agriculture Series: Forests- Carbon Extraction and Storage
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Join Jad Daley, Vice President at American Forests, for a webinar about the powerful role of forests and forest products in naturally absorbing and storing 14% of U.S. carbon emissions each year.
This “negative emissions’ power of forests is at risk due to the stresses of climate change and other factors. Jad discusses what we can do to keep forests working to slow climate change.
Jad Daley has worked on forest conservation for more than two decades, including authoring federal legislation to benefit forests and co-founding the Forest-Climate Working Group (FCWG) in 2007. Jad is a graduate of Brown University and Vermont Law School.
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
CCL Agriculture Series: Connecting with Farmers on Climate (Audio)
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Audio Only: Join Tom Driscoll (National Farmers’ Union) in a discussion that highlights salient points that farmers may respond especially well to, or are particularly important to their operations, regarding climate change. It will also identify opportunities to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and the advantages to be achieved by doing so. Tom Driscoll is the Director of the NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy. He works to mobilize farmers for beneficial climate action and to inform policymakers of how best to work with farmers to secure the food system as the climate changes.
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Audio Only: Join Alyssa Charney, policy specialist at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) in Washington D.C for the second installment in CCL's Agriculture Action Team's series. Alyssa’s talk covers the basics of the farm bill, opportunities to address climate change in the next farm bill, and relevant proposals that NSAC is advocating for in the 2018 Farm Bill.
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Dana Nuccitelli: Recent Research on the Impacts of Climate Change (Audio)
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Audio Only: Most people view climate change as a threat distant in time and space. They think its impacts will only effect people in the future, and in other countries. As a result, climate change isn't considered an urgent problem. To build the political will for climate solutions this is an important challenge to address through connecting how climate change is impacting us now.
Join Dana Nuccitelli, environmental scientist and climate writer for The Guardian and Skeptical Science to learn more about how climate change is impacting people today by intensifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heat waves, floods, and droughts; hurting the economy; and putting us on a path heading toward the planet's sixth mass extinction.
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Dana Nuccitelli: Recent Research on the Impacts of Climate Change
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
Most people view climate change as a threat distant in time and space. They think its impacts will only effect people in the future, and in other countries. As a result, climate change isn't considered an urgent problem. To build the political will for climate solutions this is an important challenge to address through connecting how climate change is impacting us now.
Join Dana Nuccitelli, environmental scientist and climate writer for The Guardian and Skeptical Science to learn more about how climate change is impacting people today by intensifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heat waves, floods, and droughts; hurting the economy; and putting us on a path heading toward the planet's sixth mass extinction.
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Climate Advocate Training Lesson Two (Audio)
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Audio Only: Join Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) Director of Operations Amy Bennett and Director of Volunteer Education and Engagement Brett Cease as they welcome you to CCL. In this updated second part of the series, you'll review CCL's methodology of building common ground, put it into practice, and review more of the details behind carbon fee and dividend to help cover the basics of becoming an effective CCL climate advocate.
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Climate Advocate Training Lesson One (Audio)
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Audio Only: Join Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL) Director of Operations Amy Bennett and Director of Volunteer Education and Engagement Brett Cease as they welcome you to CCL. In this updated first part of the series, you'll review CCL's values, structure, and organization along with examples of the tools we use to build the political will for a livable world.
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
Jonathan Haidt, a professor in the Business and Society Program at NYU-Stern, is a social psychologist and author of The Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis. Dr. Haidt discusses how we came to be so politically polarized as a nation and what needs to happen to restore a more cooperative system of governing. “To live virtuously as individuals and as societies, we must understand how our minds are built. We must find ways to overcome our natural self-righteousness. We must respect and even learn from those whose morality differs from our own.”
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
How Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
Saturday Jul 01, 2017
Though scientific evidence for the existence of global warming continues to mount, in the United States and other countries belief in global warming has stagnated or even decreased in recent years. One possible explanation for this pattern is that information about the potentially dire consequences of global warming threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable. Individuals overcome this threat by denying or discounting the existence of global warming, and this process ultimately results in decreased willingness to counteract climate change. Two experiments provide support for this explanation of the dynamics of belief in global warming, suggesting that less dire messaging could be more effective for promoting public understanding of climate-change research.
Dr. Robb Willer summarizes the study's findings.