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Discussing climate change in informal education
"With many zoos and aquariums now working with conservation organizations and financed by individuals who feel strongly about threatened habitats and species, managers have been wrestling with how aggressive to be in educating visitors on the perils of climate change," reports The New York Times…
NCSE's McCaffrey and Rosenau at Daily Kos
When the popular Daily Kos blog decided to devote a week-long blogathon, running August 17 through August 24, 2012, to climate change, two NCSE staffers were invited to contribute. In "Why climate literacy matters," posted on August 20, 2012, Mark McCaffrey observed, "Ideology, cultural norms,…
NCSE'S Grand Canyon Trip 2012
July 16 — July 24, 2012 The 2012 Rafters Back row (left to right): Bob Stover, Roberta Waddle, Jan Stover, Floyd Waddle, Steven Newton, Bob Barczak, Paula Lawson, Bruce Quayle, Michelle Barczak, Kelley Talbot, Clair Talbot, Martin Schmidt, Graham Huckin…
Two interviews with Eugenie C. Scott
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director was recently interviewed twice about science denial in on-line venues. Speaking to Liza Gross for KQED's Quest series (August 21, 2012), Scott discussed the similarities between those who reject vaccines and those who reject evolution…
A glimpse of Global Weirdness
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Climate Central's Global Weirdness (Pantheon, 2012). The preview consists of the introduction to the book, which explains that it is intended "to lay out the current state of knowledge about climate change, with explanations of the underlying…
Polling climate change in Canada
A new survey addresses the views of Canadians on climate change. Conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. for IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., which describes itself as "an environmental non-government organization (ENGO) created to provide independent risk and performance assessments of CO2 storage…
Scott on climate change education
Eugenie C. ScottVisiting the University of Minnesota on August 6, 2012, NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott spoke on "Climate change: Why the resistance?" In advance of her talk, she was interviewed by MinnPost (August 2, 2012) about the state of climate change education.…
Branch on the search for Eden
"Where on earth was the Garden of Eden?" NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch reviewed Brook Wilensky-Lanford's Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011) for eSkeptic (August 8, 2012). While complaining that Wilensky-Lanford's connection of the search for the historical…
"A converted skeptic"
A climate scientist who was formerly dismissive of climate change now describes himself as "a converted skeptic." Richard Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and cofounder of the Berkeley Earth project, wrote in a column in The New York Times (July 28, 2012…

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