Chat notes from Climate Change shop talk, October 2022

Elizabeth Jensen : This was a big issue when I was at NPR. I wrote several columns on it. This was the last: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/01/17/797250970/update-nprs-climate-coverage-team-expanding And I saw that NPR just announced that it was concentrating everything in a full-on Climate Desk: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/1122885448/announcing-the-npr-climate-desk
Margo Smit : Will we keep the comments thread too, Alan? Links might be interesting to people.
Alan Sunderland : Yes, I’ll publish it online with the video.
Pierre Champoux : Radio-Canada has a « climate reporter » (Étienne Leblanc) who has been covering environment questions for years. Also, News launched the « Carbone » initiative, 2-3 years ago (https://ici.radio-canada.ca/carbone), while covering climate changes through its TV (https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/la-semaine-verte/, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/decouverte/site etc.) and radio shows (https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/4604/feu-vert and others).
Margo Smit : Should we try to bring one of the writers of Merchants of Doubt to a shop talk or a conference?
Pierre Champoux : About climate denialists, a review from Pierre Tourangeau, back in 2015… : https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/fr/ombudsman/revisions/2015-10-19. And this more recent one from Guy Gendron https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/fr/ombudsman/revisions/2020-02-06-urgence-climatique. It is in French but it may be a great occasion for you to practice…!