NCSE is delighted to congratulate Michael E. Mann on his selection to receive the 2018 Climate Communication Prize from the American Geological Union. The prize is conferred annually in recognition for communication of climate science. Previous recipients include Stefan Rahmstorf, Richard B. Alley…
The distinguished geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza died on August 31, 2018, at the age of 96, according to La Repubblica (September 1, 2018). "More than any other human geneticist, Cavalli-Sforza believed in the potential of genes and culture together to trace humanity's origins,"…
NCSE bids farewell to Claire Adrian-Tucci, who joined NCSE in 2016. She learned about NCSE while a graduate student in biology and epidemiology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where the Science Booster Club program was piloted in 2015. After becoming one of the most valuable volunteers…
When the news broke in May 2018 that the Arizona Department of Education had tampered with the treatment of evolution in a draft of new state science standards, it was hard to find anyone leaping to the defense of the superintendent of public instruction, Diane Douglas. It didn’t help that…
Writing for Scientific American's blog (August 21, 2018), Craig A. Foster of the US Air Force Academy and NCSE's Glenn Branch discuss what "seems to have been the first systematic attempt to assess the American population's views on the shape of the Earth." Despite ambiguities in the…
In a 2016 interview with NCSE, Michael E. Mann said, “If my science is going to be used as a proxy for the validity of the science of climate change, then I’m willing to fight.”
His most recent foray has come in an unusual form—a children’s book. Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State…
When I was asked to review The Tantrum that Saved the World, by Michael E. Mann and Megan Herbert, I readily accepted. As a teacher and a parent, I know there are few children’s books available that address the most important global issue of our time—climate change.
It’s an adult…
"A record 60% of Americans now think that global warming is happening and that humans are at least partially responsible for the rising temperature," according (PDF) to the latest survey from the National Studies on Energy and the Environment conducted by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg…
In a memorandum (PDF) dated August 7, 2018, NCSE's executive director Ann Reid wrote to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" and to urge the EPA to withdraw its proposal. The controversial rule is, as Naomi Oreskes (a member…