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Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America
Climate change education bill in Maine progresses further
Why climate education? Because it’s even more interesting than molecular biology
Climate scientists are becoming climate teachers
John Abraham
John Abraham is a professor of thermal sciences at the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota. He studies oceans and how they are warming. He also works on clean energy solutions in the developing world — he has started a water pasteurization company that provides drinking water to vulnerable populations.
Bernadette Woods Placky
Bernadette Woods Placky is an Emmy Award winning meteorologist and director of Climate Central's Climate Matters program that offers data analyses, graphics and other reporting resources to nearly 2,000 local TV meteorologists and journalists to help them tell their local climate stories. Woods Placky develops partnerships with media organizations, non-profits, and academic institutions in her leadership role with Climate Central, and serves as an expert on the links between climate change and weather. Before coming to Climate Central, Woods Placky worked for decade as an on-air meteorologist in markets in Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland.
Prepared, not scared
Help Wanted: Director of Operations
One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough
"One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough"
No surprises in a new poll on public opinion about anthropogenic climate change
Why teaching about climate change matters
John Cook
John Cook is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University. His research focus is on using critical thinking to build resilience against misinformation. In 2007, he founded Skeptical Science, a website that won the 2011 Australia Museum Eureka Prize for the Advancement of Climate Change Knowledge. In 2020, he published the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change applying critical thinking, inoculation research, and cartoons to engage and educate readers about climate misinformation. He recently released the Cranky Uncle game, combining critical thinking, cartoons, and gamification to build players’ resilience against misinformation. He currently works with organizations like Facebook and NASA to develop evidence-based responses to climate misinformation.
Why teach critical thinking about climate change?
A new climate change education bill in Connecticut
A climate change education bill in Congress
Climate change education bill in Maine progresses
Happy 40th To The National Center For Science Education!
A bill to establish the California Center for Climate Change Education
