Quiet Alarm - A Review of CBC's Climate Reporting

The project coordinated 30 volunteers from across Canada to track the climate reporting on flagship CBC news programs over a two week period. The goal of the research project is to provide the Climate Emergency Unit with evidence and data of the strengths and weaknesses of the CBC/Radio-Canada’s climate reporting in order to make the case for reforms related to

1. committing more resources and daily reporting to the causes of, solutions to, and urgency of, the climate crisis,
2. connecting the dots between extreme weather events and fossil fuel combustion,
3. and being more critical of false solutions that delay climate mitigation.

In this hypothetical broadcast, climate emergency reporter Seth Klein speaks with host Ziya Tong about the goals of this new programming, record breaking heat waves and their impacts, and how scientists are getting better and faster at linking specific extreme weather events to fossil fuel-driven climate change.

In this hypothetical broadcast, climate emergency reporter Anjali Appadurai speaks with host Ziya Tong about the proposed expansion of the offshore oil industry in Newfoundland and Labrador, its impacts, and evidence of the increasing reliability and efficiency of renewable energies from a place you might not have expected – Texas.