- Author: Carole Hom
CCWAS IGERT PI Graham Fogg has just accepted an invitation to participate in a conference on groundwater control and monitoring in Chile. The conference, sponsored by the Comisión Nacional de Riego (Chile), will be held on 4 October 2012. Graham will remain in Chile a few days thereafter to work with José Luis Arumi and other colleagues on artificial groundwater recharge.
Stay tuned for details!
- Author: Carole Hom
Ryan Meyer, writing in the scientific journal Nature, recently praised the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for its realistic, compelling, and nuanced views about the role of science in addressing climate change.
You can get the full story here.
- Author: Carole Hom
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 scientists, has caused considerable stir among climate scientists. The authors of the op-ed argue that the earth's climate is not warming, and that those who cite evidence to the contrary are alarmists who seek to divert funding from governments and the private sector toward their own ends.
A number of other scientists and writers have publicly weighed in on the WSJ op ed, both to refute some of the claims of the op-ed and comment on the integrity of science. You can read some of them here.
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- Author: Carole Hom
The National Center for Science Education, a non-profit formed to support the teaching of evolution in public schools, recently announced the launch of its new initiative aimed at defending the teaching of climate change. Like evolution, climate change is accepted by the scientific community but controversial among the public. As a result, educators trying to teach climate change often are pressured to compromise the scientific and pedagogical integrity of their instruction. But there was no organization specializing in providing advice and support to those facing challenges to climate change education.
With the launching of the initiative, NCSE itself becomes that organization.
For more information, see http://ncse.com/climate
- Author: Carole Hom
Andrew Revkin wrote a nice piece on the public perception of climate change, published in his New York Times blog on 11 January 2011. It's accompanied by a short and very compelling video.
