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Quiet Alarm - A Review of CBC's Climate Reporting
In the face of the ever-expanding climate crisis, Canadians desperately need their public broadcaster to inform them of its causes, its solutions and the actions they can take to confront it. Quiet Alarm: A Review of CBC's Climate Reporting is a community-engaged research project conducted by CERi in collaboration with the Climate Emergency Unit aimed at improving the climate reporting of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
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
- committing more resources and daily reporting to the causes of, solutions to, and urgency of, the climate crisis,
- connecting the dots between extreme weather events and fossil fuel combustion,
- and being more critical of false solutions that delay climate mitigation.
One of the key recommendations found in Quiet Alarm: A Review of CBC’s Climate Reporting is for the CBC to develop a daily climate emergency broadcast to bring Canadians stories from the frontlines of the climate crisis, honestly informing them and inspiring them to action. These recordings demonstrate what such a broadcast could sound like on CBC Radio.
DEMO | Climate Emergency Broadcast
July 7, 2023
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.
DEMO | Climate Emergency Broadcast
July 8, 2023
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.
DEMO | Climate Emergency Broadcast
July 15, 2023
In this hypothetical broadcast, climate emergency reporter Anjali Appadurai speaks with host Ziya Tong about this summer of global climate catastrophes, the pursuit of climate justice, global finance reforms, and the increasing cases of climate litigation to hold states and fossil fuel companies to account for their role in the climate crisis. It’s a lot – enjoy the ride!
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