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Our webinars are designed for broadcast meteorologists so they can keep up to date on the current state of climate science. They are free and count 0.25 points toward AMS/CBM recertification.
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Managing Climate Risk Misinformation
Climate Central held an online workshop on February 19, 2021, to discuss ways to recognize, avoid and deal with climate misinformation. Academic experts and journalists covered a number of topics, including the behavioral science behind climate change denialism, corporate greenwashing, flawed perceptions of the costs of climate action, and ways to identify bots and other attempts to manipulate public opinion through social media.
Paris We're Back! Now What?
Protecting Americans from climate change requires that we work with all nations to reduce global emissions of heat-trapping pollution to net zero as quickly as possible.
Billion Dollar Disasters & Climate Change
Increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events are setting new records when it comes to disasters that cause at least $1 billion in damage. We gathered a panel of experts to discuss 2020's disasters and their impacts on vulnerable communities.
Affordable Housing at Risk from Rising Seas
New research shows the number of affordable rental housing units at risk from coastal flooding and sea level rise is expected to more than triple during the next three decades.
Rapid Response Workshop: Hurricane Season - Impacts
The intensity of the historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been fueled by warmer surface temperatures in the ocean, in part because of the heating effects of climate changing pollution. Meanwhile, hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery are being complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rapid Response Workshop: Smoke, Health & Fire
With wildfires still raging across California and other Western states, smoke has been darkening the skies and wafting across the country, a public health threat scientists have been linking to a long list of health concerns — including respiratory infections like influenza and the novel coronavirus.
Covering Disasters Workshop Series: Extreme Heat 2020
COVID-19 and social distancing are complicating preparations for and responses to extreme weather and disasters, including excessive heat.
Covering Disasters Workshop Series: Hurricane Season 2020
COVID-19 procedures will complicate coverage of a hurricane season expected to be unusually active in 2020.
Covering Disasters Workshop Series: Wildfire Season 2020
COVID-19 and social distancing are complicating preparations for and responses to extreme weather and disasters, including wildfires.
Covering Disasters Workshop Series: Reporting on Disasters during COVID-19
COVID-19 and social distancing are complicating preparations for and responses to extreme weather and disasters, including wildfires.
2019 CSTPR Seminar
The Climate Change Story: Bridging the Gap Between Science and the Public; September 11, 2019; Boulder, Colorado.
2017 AMS Broadcast Conference Short Course
Communicating the Costs of Climate Change: Weather, Health, and Economic Impacts: Kansas City 2017
2016 National Weather Association Workshop
Broadcast Met Excellence: Extreme Weather, Changing Climate. Norfolk: September 2016
2016 AMS Broadcast Conference Short Course
New Challenges: Excellence in Broadcast Meteorology in a Changing Climate; Austin, June 2016
Climate Matters Workshop at NCAR/UCAR
Weather and Climate Broadcasting: Boulder, CO, March 2016
2015 National Weather Association Workshop
Weather and Climate Change: Pieces of the Same Puzzle: Oklahoma City, October 2015
2015 AMS Broadcast Conference Short Course
Weather & Climate In Times Of Change: Raleigh, June 2015
2014 National Weather Association Meeting
Weather and Climate Change: Salt Lake City, October 2014
2013 AMS Broadcast Conference Short Course
Weird(er) Weather and a Changing Climate: Piecing Together the Puzzle
Webinars
Webinar: Climate Change and Health
Featuring Dr. John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Dr. Susan Pacheco, University of Texas McGovern Medical School.
February 2020
Webinar: Climate Change and Extremes
Featuring Ahira Sanchez-Lugo, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, February 2020
Webinar: New Tools, New Insights - The Next Generation of Climate Models
Featuring Claudia Tebaldi, Special Advisor to Climate Central, December 2019
Webinar: Carbon-Saving Farming
Featuring Keith Paustian, Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University: November 2019
Webinar: Covering Climate Change Solutions
Featuring Chris Forest, Penn State and Project Drawdown; Allen Arthur and Julia Hotz, Solutions Journalism Network; September 2019
Dorian, Hurricanes, and Climate Change
Featuring Tom Knutson, Research Meteorologist, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab:
September 2019
Covering Climate Now – New Opportunities to Showcase Climate Reporting
Featuring Ed Maibach, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University; Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Central; Mark Herstgaard, The Nation; John Morales, WTVJ Miami: July 2019
Tornado Outbreak: The Role of Climate Change
Featuring Harold Brooks, Senior Scientist, National Severe Storms Lab: May 2019
Climate Change & Health
Featuring Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council: May 2019
Climate Data: Where to find it. How to use it.
Featuring Deke Arndt and Ahira Sánchez-Lugo, Climate Monitoring Branch, NOAA/NCEI: April 2019
Climate Change: What Your Audience Wants to Know
Featuring Ed Maibach, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication: February 2019
Climate Change and the News: Public Opinion and Story Resources
Featuring Sunshine Menezes, Metcalf Institute, University of Rhode Island; Ed Maibach, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University; Sean Sublette, Climate Central’s Climate Matters Program: January 2019
The 4th National Climate Assessment
Featuring Katharine Hayhoe, Director of Texas Tech Climate Science Center: November 2018
The Economics of Climate Change
Featuring Billy Pizer, Professor of Public Policy, Duke University: November 2018
Inside the New Wind & Solar Electricity Forecast Tool
Featuring John Zack, President, MESO Systems and Eric Larson, Senior Scientist of Energy Systems, Climate Central: September 2018
Climate Change Impacts & How We Know It’s Us: En Español
Featuring Henry Briceño, Research Professor, Florida International University: June 2018
Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Featuring Radley Horton, Associate Research Professor, Columbia University: May 2018
Inside the NOAA Global Temperature Analyses
Featuring Deke Arndt, Chief, Monitoring Branch, NOAA NCEI: February 2018
Climate Change: Visible in Nature
Featuring Andrew Thaler, Oceanographer and CEO of Blackbeard Biologic: November 2017
Inside Climate Models
Featuring Andrew Gettleman, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research: October 2017
Climate Change and Health
Featuring Jonathan Patz, Director, Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin: May 2017
Extreme Precipitation Trends
Featuring Ken Kunkel, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, NC State, NOAA/NCEI: April 2017
Weather, Renewables, and the Electric Grid
Featuring Travis Hartman, Meteorologist and Senior Director, MDA Information Services: March 2017
What Your Viewers Think About Climate Change
Featuring Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication: January 2017
The Influence of Arctic Warming on the Jet Stream
Featuring Dr. Elizabeth Barnes, Assistant Professor from the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science: September 2016
Sea Level Rise: What It’s Already Done and Where It’s Headed
Featuring Dr. Ben Strauss, Climate Central Vice President for Sea Level and Climate Impacts: June 2016
Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries
Featuring Michael Mann, Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center: April 2016
El Niño and Climate Change
Featuring Tom Di Liberto from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center: January 2016
Meteorological Memories: Top Weather Events of 2015
Featuring Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA Storm Prediction Center: December 2015
Extreme Event Attribution Science
Featuring Heidi Cullen, Chief Scientist at Climate Central and Fredi Otto, Senior Researcher and Scientific Coordinator at University of Oxford: November 2015
All Things Climate Models
Featuring Keith Dixon, Climate Research Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL): July 2015
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
Featuring Thomas Knutson, Research Meteorologist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL): June 2015
A Brief History of Climate Change Science (1800-2015)
Featuring Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego: April 2015
The Decoder: A Key to Unlocking the Mysteries of the Southern Ocean
The ocean around Antarctica plays a key role in the global climate picture: March 2015
Atmospheric CO2 Levels Keep Climbing: A Retrospective Look at the Keeling Curve
Featuring Pieter Tans, NOAA Senior Scientist for Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics: February 2015
A Deep Dive into the California Drought: NASA’s View from Above
NASA Scientists Matthew Rodell and Jay Famiglietti discuss the California Drought as seen by NASA's GRACE satellites: January 2015
2014 Review of Significant Weather Events
Featuring Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Storm Prediction Center: November 2014
Understanding the Southern Ocean: A Discussion with SOCCOM Scientists
A live discussion with the lead scientists and researchers behind the NSF-funded SOCCOM Southern Ocean research project: November 2014
U.S. Winter Outlook, 2014-2015
Michael Halpert, Deputy Director of the Climate Prediction Center joins us to talk about winter weather and the climate patterns that can influence it: October 2014
Climate Change at the Poles
With Dr. James White, Director of the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Research and professor at the University of Colorado: September 2014
Western Wildfires
Trends, impacts and the climate connection with Dr. Alyson Kenward, Climate Central and Max Mortiz, UC Berkley: August 2014
Hurricane Variability
Dr. Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane researcher and professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, talks hurricanes: May 2014
El Estado del Clima del 2014
Featuring Ahira Sánchez-Lugo, National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly National Climatic Data Center): May 2014
Severe Weather & Climate Change
With Harold Brooks, a tornado expert at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla.: April 2014
U.S. Winter Outlook, 2013-2014
Michael Halpert, Deputy Director of the Climate Prediction Center joins us to talk about winter weather and the climate patterns that can influence it: December 2013
Climate 101
Featuring climate scientist Deke Arndt, Chief at NCDC's Climate Monitoring Branch: October 2013
