Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Stand Up For Climate Change Comedy Show- Tune in anytime on April 22!

Wednesday April 22 2020 @ 12:00 pm

April

22

Wed

2020

12:00 pm

Event Type
Seminar
Availability

Open to Public

Audience
  • CIRES employees
  • CU Boulder employees
  • General Public
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators
  • Host
    CIRES, CU Boulder

    A Celebration for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
    An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy
    Tune in on April 22!
    Stand Up for Climate, a celebration for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, released April 22.
    This “best of” show features brief climate comedy videos from our five years of hosting this event along with this year’s international climate comedy video contest winners. Max Boykoff and Beth Osnes will co-host, and Philadelphia comedian Chuck Nice is a featured guest! Appearances also by Ed Begley, Jr., Katharine Hayhoe, Bill McKibben, Ben Gleib, Andrew Revkin, James Balog, Seth Shostak, John Cook, Rollie Williams, Heather Libby, Josh Willis, Adam Levy & more!
    This online offering is an example of something we call, ‘good natured’ comedy,’ which our research shows helps process negative emotions, feeds hope, and sustains climate action. Reversing global warming is a mighty challenge to our survival that requires a steep incline in new behaviors. But like any huge mountain, there’s only one way to get over it. Climate!
    For viewers across the world we first air the show April 22 (Earth Day) beginning: 8am Boulder time / 11am Rio de Janeiro / 3pm London / 7pm Dushanbe / 10pm Beijing / midnight Sydney. From there it will be available online for viewing anytime later. Tune in here to watch!