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NCSE and the National Climate Assessment
NCSE was on hand for the release of the third National Climate Assessment. Produced by a team of more than 300 experts, the NCA summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. When it was unveiled at the White House on May 6, 2014, NCSE's Mark McCaffrey was…
Me Worry?
During the panel discussion at the White House Tuesday about the release of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, I admitted that what keeps me up late at night is worrying that we haven’t done everything possible to prepare our children for the climate changes that are already happening.…
Standing up for Science & Students
When NCSE started its climate change program just over two years ago, we encountered a lot of skepticism–but not from the usual suspects. We expected the climate change denial folks to argue that there was limited science behind climate change, so how could we advocate teaching of it? We also…
A new editor for RNCSE
NCSE is pleased to welcome Stephanie Keep as the new editor of its journal Reports of the National Center for Science Education. She succeeds Andrew J. Petto, who is retiring from the post after nearly twenty years of service. "I'm thrilled to become part of NCSE's team working to…
An Astronomer for God: William R. Stoeger (1943-2014)
Biblical fundamentalists and their opponents on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of belief often share one significant assumption: in order to contribute to modern science you have to be an atheist. That is, you cannot at the same time believe in a personal God and accept the scientific…
In Search of a Mustache, Part 1
It is a credit to the professionalism of the staff at the California State Library in Sacramento that my request for a bound volume of the journal The Mariner’s Mirror from 1975—a request, I’m willing to wager, unique in their experience—raised not a single eyebrow. Had they asked,…
Protecting the Nation's Most Important Human Resource
Last week I received an invitation from the White House to attend the launch of the National Climate Assessment on May 6th.  After checking my busy schedule to see if there were any pressing conflicts (there were oddly none), and getting Secret Service clearance (I passed—phew!), I now find…
Mr. McCaffrey goes to Washington
NCSE's Mark McCaffrey will be discussing the educational use of the third National Climate Assessment at a panel in the White House on May 6, 2014. The panel will be streamed live from the White House between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) on May 6, 2014; McCaffrey’s presentation will take…
Answer Monday!
Photo Credit: Scott..? via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I introduced you to what I thought would be an easily identified fossil! It's one that everyone knows and most people love, so I tried to make it tricky by supplying as little information as possible. Maybe too little! No one…

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