Political will for a livable world
CLIMATE CLASS
Monday April 19, 5:00-6:00 pm - Final Class with Jerry Hinkle, CCL economist, on the Economic Benefits of Carbon Fee & Dividend. Yes, you can join for the final class! Details HERE
PRESENTATIONS with DANA NUCCITELLI
Dana Nuccitelli, Environmental scientist, climate journalist, and member of our chapter, Dana Nuccitelli, is giving the following talks for Santa Clara University Earth Week. View the Program and Register HERE
April 19th, 6:00 pm Wildfires, Climate, and Solutions
April 22nd, 9:15 am "Refutational" Journalism - Climate Myth Debunking
Coming up in May:
May 13th, 6:00-8:00 pm Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke
Science of wildfires, public health and smoke, and what to do about indoor smoke
Check back for registration details
PARK CLEAN-UP for EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 24th - Clean Up Day at Matsui Park
Great opportunity to actively celebrate Earth Day by sharing time with friends, enjoying the outdoors and cleaning up a park in our area. Kathy Dodson is leading this event at 514 Jiboom St., Sacramento. The event will begin sometime between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. and last for about 2 hours. We are waiting to learn our assigned time slot. Contact Kathy to join in the CCL group effort! katwillgo@gmail.com
WEBINAR with REPRESENTATIVE DR. AMI BERA
Wednesday, April 28th 3:00-4:30 pm - The Health Impacts of Climate Change
A webinar hosted by Dr. Ami Bera in conjunction with CCL Sacramento
Raising awareness about climate change, its impacts on your health and your community and what you can do about it.
National Conference June 12 -13 to be followed by lobbying our Congressional Representatives. Save the dates!
A Very Topical Presentation: (Please share with your friends)
How Climate Change is Worsening California’s Wildfires and What to do About it
Speakers:
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Dana Nuccitelli – Environmental Scientist & Climate Journalist, Author of Climatology versus Pseudoscience
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Jerry Hinkle – Economist & Climate Policy Specialist
This presentation has been recorded and is available here:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/bH-XfOo2FPg
Revisit our Earth Day Presentation “COVID-19 and Climate Change: Two Sides of the Same Coin”.
Speakers: Dr Tom Suchanek of UC Davis and Dana Nuccitelli of Yale Climate Connections and SkepticalScience.com.
Sponsored by CCL Nevada County & CCL Sacramento and the Nevada County Media Center.
It was great! The 3 part presentation is archived at https://tomsuchanek.net/covid
Tom's latest presentation “Covid-19 and Climate Change versus The ECONOMY!”, it has just been archived by Renaissance Society at the following URL: https://tinyurl.com/RS-Stage
Your Personal Monthly Event
Send an Email Once a Month to Your Congressperson
You can find time to make a call once a month to your member of the House. It takes 3 minutes or less. Just tell them – you are very concerned about the climate crisis and want them, your elected representative, to take action.
How To Steps:
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Create a Calendar Event on your phone or calendar. On the number day of your birth (1st, 23rd whatever) put a reminder to yourself to email.
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Use the REPEAT function to make it monthly reminder on that number day
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Email your member of the House first. Then, email your Senators.
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Email them to ask for their support for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 763. Ami Bera, District 7 is a co-sponsor. Doris Matsui, District 6, is not a co-sponsor.
Climate Change Class - Videos
In the fall of 2018, Dr. Tom Suchanek, Dana Nuccitelli and Dr. Jim Lerner - all Sac CCL members taught a class on Climate Change through the Rennaissance Society. For information about climate change, go to Tom Suchanek's web site: https://tomsuchanek.net
The classes were video taped and you can access them at his website.