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Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe

Climate One

Climate One

Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science, News Commentary, News

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that reporters Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts face daily in their jobs of covering the looming catastrophe. Elizabeth Kolbert Journalist, The New Yorker David Roberts Staff Writer, Vox This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA on September 22, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate 1, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

0:37.3

For writers and reporters who cover the climate beat,

0:40.3

getting to the story can be a challenge.

0:42.3

On some level it's the worst story ever.

0:44.3

It is ubiquitous, but very hard to pin down.

0:48.3

It's being caused by everyone and everything,

0:52.3

and therefore it's sort of everything and nothing.

0:57.0

And so finding the narrative is very, very difficult.

1:01.0

So what can journalists do to get the story out there?

1:04.0

My goal was always to speak to the political junkies and the nerds and the news obsessives

1:10.0

and the bloggers and Twitterers and all those

1:13.0

speak to those people about this in a way that reaches them and that they understand.

1:24.3

Covering catastrophe. Up next on Climate One.

1:28.3

What's it like to write about climate change in a post-truth world?

1:41.3

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1:45.2

energy, economy, and environment. I'm Devin Strolovich. Climate One conversations with oil

1:51.0

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1:56.1

and hosted by Greg Dalton.

2:09.9

On today's show, we'll hear two veteran climate reporters talk about their personal stories,

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