NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2018/04/13
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2018-04-13 14:58.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A reminder of the level of popular support for climate education, and congratulations to Naomi Oreskes.
"AMERICANS SUPPORT TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING" Even despite public controversies over the inclusion of climate change in state science standards, "Americans overwhelmingly support teaching our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming -- in all 50 states and 3,000+ counties across the nation, including Republican and Democratic strongholds," according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (April 11, 2018). In total, 78 percent of respondents nationally chose "Somewhat agree" or "Strongly agree" as their responses to the question "Should schools teach our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming?" in a series of surveys conducted by the program in January 2010, March 2016, November 2016, June 2017, and October 2017. NCSE was mentioned both on account of the NCSE/Penn State survey of climate change in the United States (further discussed in NCSE's report Mixed Messages), which the story cited to demonstrate the need to provide training and support to teachers to implement new science standard including climate change, and on account of the educational resources for teachers provided by NCSE. For the story from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, visit: http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans-support-teaching-children-global-warming/ For Mixed Messages (PDF), visit: https://ncse.com/files/MixedMessages.pdf CONGRATULATIONS TO NAOMI ORESKES NCSE is pleased to congratulate Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and a member of NCSE's board of directors, on receiving a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships are "intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts," and the foundation notes of Oreskes that "[s]ince the early 2000s, she has been a leading public voice on the issue of anthropogenic climate change." Also receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship was Erik M. Conway, with whom Oreskes coauthored Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (2010). For the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's announcement, visit: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/naomi-oreskes/ 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. 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600 Oakland CA 94612-2922 510-601-7203 fax 510-788-7971 branch@ncse.com https://ncse.com Check out NCSE's blog: https://ncse.com/blog Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: https://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse https://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd https://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! https://ncse.com/join
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