Hosted by Covering Climate Now
Thursday, May 7 12:00 p.m. EDT
In April, a climate denial conference hosted in Washington, D.C., and boasting US Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin as a keynote speaker signaled a new era in US politics: from a slow but growing embrace of climate science in federal policy to outright rejection of the scientific consensus.
Join Covering Climate Now for a special webinar, with DeSmog reporter Rei Takver alongside Manon Jacob, Climate Digital Investigation Reporter for Agence France-Presse, and Maxine Joselow, Climate Policy Reporter for The New York Times, as they explore how the Trump administration’s overt embrace of climate denialism in Washington is creating a permission structure for more denial at the highest levels of government in the US and beyond.
Rei will discuss her story, co-published with The Guardian, “Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trumpโs Fossil Fuel Blitz,” which covers Donald Trump’s assaults on the legal foundation for U.S. regulations on global warming emissions, and how climate deniersย have been celebrating what they claim is the โsilentโ acquiescence of billionaires,ย Democrats, climate activists and even reporters to the presidentโs aggressive pro-fossil fuel agenda.
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โIn my 26 years of being focused on climate, Iโve never seen anything like this.ย Trump is gutting everything they ever stood for,โย Marc Morano, a long-time climate denier, said in January at the โWorld Prosperity Forum,โ a five-day event in Zurich, Switzerland, Rei reports.
The World Prosperity Forum’s sponsor was The Heartland Institute,ย a conservative think tank that has been at the forefront of spreading climate disinformation for decades,ย and was also a contributor toย Project 2025, the policy blueprint for President Trumpโs second administration.
โBillionaires are silent. Democrats in Congress have been silent. Climate activists. There has been no push-back on this,โ Morano said โ and he may have a point, according to some experts who research the climate denial movement.
Join in on Thursday, May 7, at 12:00 p.m. EDT for this virtual conversation about the Trump administrationโs embrace of climate denialism, what that could mean for the future of US climate policy, and how to cover it
You wonโt want to miss it.
