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Runaway Climate
A recent article in Nature Geoscience, “Low simulated radiation limit for runaway greenhouse climates,” raises some unsettling concerns. While almost everyone knows CO2 is a greenhouse gas, fewer people realize that water vapor is also a powerful absorber of infrared radiation. But while CO2 can…
NCSE launches "Science League of America" blog
NCSE is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, Science League of America. Its title, as Josh Rosenau discloses in his welcome post, is taken from the Science League of America, a proto-NCSE run by the polymath Maynard Shipley in the 1920s. "We can think of no better way to honor Shipley…
"Elephant in the Room" by Banksy.
"Elephant in the Room" by Banksy.
The Elephant in the Climate Change Classroom
A peek at How We Do It
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Robert Martin's How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction (Basic Books, 2013). The preview consists of chapter 5, "Growing a Large Brain," in which Martin discusses the connection of brain evolution and reproduction, commenting…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2014
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From July 3 to July 11, 2014, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run…
Polling young voters on climate
A recent poll (PDF) conducted for the League of Conservation Voters suggests that young voters regard climate change as a threat and are suspicious of climate change denial. A July 26, 2013, press release from the LCV commented, "Climate deniers are so last generation. LCV released a bipartisan…
Congratulations to Kansas Citizens for Science
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Kansas Citizens for Science for receiving a 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Science Education Award from the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science. In the summer 2013 issue of the KATS newsletter, KATS praised KCFS for its efforts, writing (PDF, p. 16):…
NCSE'S Grand Canyon Trip 2013
July 15 — July 23, 2013 The 2013 Rafters Back row (left to right): Trey Duffy, Andrea Vogt, David Bottjer, Alan Heath, Jim Lippard, Lewis Smith, Steven Newton, Ted Reid Middle row: Linda Breci, Teri Cooper, John Krump, Mary Jean Thompson,…
William J. Guste Jr. dies
William J. Guste Jr.William J. "Billy" Guste Jr., who served for twenty years as the attorney general of Louisiana and who assiduously defended the state's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction Act, died on July 24, 2013, at the…

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