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| NCSE takes on climate change The National Center for Science Education, where I work, has focused on fighting political attacks on evolution education for all of its 30 year history. When the group was founded in the early '80s, they didn't choose a name narrowly focused on evolution, hoping that they'd make quick work of creationism and then move on to other problems in science education. Today's announcement that NCSE' [..] |
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| NCSE wants a climate specialist The National Center for Science Education is hiring a Climate Change Programs and Policy Director:
NCSE seeks candidates for our Climate Change Programs and Policy Director.
The Climate Change Programs and Policy Director's duties will include:
* counseling teachers, administrators, parents, and other concerned citizens facing challenges to climate change educa [..] |
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| Evolution and climate change On twitter, journalist Dave Roberts wrote:
Evolution is not a free-floating "theory." It underlies all of modern biology & ecology. Similarly for climate change: it's a foundation.I wrote back:
I agree (hence @NCSE's work on both). But AGW is less foundation than integrative and crucial knowledge, built on other foundationsAs NCS [..] |
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| Palin-spastic: Climate change denial Yesterday, Sarah Palin demanded that Charlie Gibson:
Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that.Except, well:
Last year, she told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environ [..] |
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Climate change legislation didn't hurt Democrats  There's been some debate among the climate hawks about last night's election returns. Politico posted a story suggesting that the toll was especially hard on Democrats who supported the landmark climate change legislation passed by the House last summer. Kate Sheppard observed that quite a few of the Democrats who opposed the bill also lost their seats, and Chris Mims (formerly of Scienceblog [..] |
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| Rick Perry defends his climate change denial In his book Fed Up, Rick Perry came out solidly in the climate denial camp, repeating long-discredited claims of that the underlying science is fraudulent. ThinkProgress quotes him writing:
For example, they have seen the headlines in the past year about doctored data related to global warming. They know we have been experiencing a cooling trend, that the complexities [..] |
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Stolen emails, climate change, and the practice of science  A week or so ago, someone broke into a server at the University of East Anglia and made off with a range of emails and other data from the university's Climate Research Unit. This excited lots of climate change deniers, as they've long claimed that CRU had secret evidence that global warming wasn't happening, or something. Much web commentary followed, in which a supposedly "random sample" of [..] |
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| Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change No one with any scientific sense now disagrees about the severity of the climate crisis. But some people — and some magazines — believe that climate change trumps every other problem. If we take this argument to its extreme, we should ignore any environmental concern that gets in the way of reducing emissions. And that’s [...] [..] |
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| 18 U.S. States Pledge Action at Climate Change Meeting At a conference at Yale University, 18 states sign a declaration committing themselves to take action to fight climate change. In his speech at the meeting, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts that an international deadlock over how to deal with global warming will end once President Bush leaves office.
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