Monday panel to focus on climate data

The National Press Club will mark Sunshine Week with a discussion on obtaining and reporting on climate data.

The Club's Journalism Institute and Freedom of the Press Committee will host a panel of climate science journalists and climate policy researchers.

The conversation will take place in the Murrow Room from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 11. Admission is free but registration is required.

The panelists will discuss the quality government/academic/privately produced data sets available to reporters and how to use the data, how to analyze scientific data sets and what red flags to watch out for, and how to evaluate the independence of the subjects and find out who is funding them.

Speakers include Elliott Negin, a senior writer at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Chelsea Harvey, E&E News climate science reporter, who will double as moderator.

The National Press Club is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists and represents more than 3,000 reporters, editors and professional communicators worldwide. The Club’s nonprofit Journalism Institute works to advance press freedom and grow journalism in the public interest.