NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/10/25
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-10-25 14:43.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A preview of Donald R. Prothero's Reality Check.
A PREVIEW OF REALITY CHECK NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview of Donald R. Prothero's Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future (Indiana University Press, 2013). The preview consists of the whole of chapter 5, "Hot Enough For You? The Heated Debate over a Warming Planet," in which Prothero discusses the scientific evidence for global climate change, debunks the most common challenges to it, and describes the organized opposition to acknowledging the reality of climate change. Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology; his honors include the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences. The reviewer for Publishers Weekly described Reality Check as giving "the science-minded something to cheer about, a brief summary of the real data that supports so many critical aspects of modern life." For the preview of The Tangled Bank (PDF), visit: http://ncse.com/book-excerpt For information about the book from its publisher, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806950 Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 510-601-7203 x305 fax: 510-601-7204 800-290-6006 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's new blog, Science League of America: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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