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Baton Rouge Advocate endorses repeal effort
In a March 20, 2013, editorial, the Baton Rouge Advocate editorially endorsed Louisiana's Senate Bill 26 (PDF), which if enacted would repeal the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act. "Ostensibly, the law is to allow divergent opinions to be taught in public school classrooms about evolution…
NCSE's Scott named as Rosenblatt Lecturer
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was awarded the Richard H. and Glenda G. Rosenblatt Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for 2013. According to Scripps, "The Rosenblatt Lecturer is selected for current,…
Climate education to be axed in Britain?
"Debate about climate change has been cut out of the national curriculum for children under 14," reports the Guardian (March 17, 2013), referring to a new draft of the British national curriculum currently under development. While the existing curriculum explicitly discusses sustainable…
Videos, videos, videos
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Especially noteworthy is Eugenie C. Scott speaking on "In the Beginning: Science, Origins, and Religion" at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012. Also…
"'Teach the Controversy' Comes to Climate Science"
Mark McCaffrey"A flurry of bills that critics say would allow climate change denial to be taught in public schools have been moving through state legislatures throughout the United States," reported ClimateWire (March 6, 2013). Citing laws in place in Louisiana and Tennessee, as…
Duane T. Gish
Duane T. Gish
Duane T. Gish dies
"Toward a Climate & Energy Literate Society"
A new report issued by the National Center for Science Education, "Toward a Climate & Energy Literate Society" (PDF) offers recommendations for improving climate and energy literacy in the United States over the course of the next decade. As NCSE's Mark McCaffrey remarked in a March 4, 2013,…
A preview of The Flooded Earth
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter D. Ward's The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps (Basic Books, 2010). The preview consists of the beginning of chapter 8, "Stopping Catastrophic Sea Rise," in which Ward concludes "this not overly cheerful book with some…
Summit: "Americans Illiterate About Climate Change--But Want to Know More"
Experts from around the nation meet to tackle climate literacy "We have lots of information about climate change, but much of it is falling on deaf ears," says Mark McCaffrey, NCSE policy director. "That's because 90% of Americans admit they're not very well informed about climate change…

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