"The program, a partnership with the Climate Desk, will air Thursday night at 8:00 pm."
"Over the summer, the Democratic National Committee rejected calls to focus one of its dozen formal debates on the single issue of climate change. The outrage and disappointment from advocates and candidates was immediate: They argued that what could be considered the most important issue facing any president should not be given short shrift.
In April, we were the first media outlet to write about the possibility of a debate on climate change. The DNC justified their position against one by arguing that there would be no single-issue debates at all. But the campaign for a climate debate remained strong, given the long history of the presidential debate moderators paying little attention to the issue. When there were still 25 Democratic presidential hopefuls, I contacted all of them asking if they would support such a debate and nearly all said they would.
Then Washington Governor Jay Inslee, whose entire campaign was focused on addressing climate change, told us he was considering defying the DNC anyway. (He didn’t.) It got us thinking how Mother Jones and The Climate Desk, a collaboration of 18 national and regional outlets, could focus the conversation around the climate crisis. As it turns out, our partners at The Weather Channel also had been wondering the same thing. ...
Five months later, The Weather Channel has used these interviews to put together a one-hour primetime special, “2020: The Race to Save the Planet”, which will air Thursday, November 7 at 8 p.m. ET. Following the show, there will be a Q&A with the Weather Channel’s Dr. Rick Knabb and Jamilah King from Mother Jones. In addition to The Weather Channel’s program, we’ve reported stories along the way, and on Wednesday, The Mother Jones Podcast I will join Dr. Rick Knabb to discuss the candidates and some of the major takeaways. "
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