About this blog
Mark McCaffrey helped develop Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science which has been reviewed and endorsed by the US Global Change Science Program. Designed to aid teachers, policy makers, and the general public in understanding the intricacies of the climate system, the Climate Literacy principles present information about Earth's climate, the impacts of climate change, and approaches to preparedness and mitigation. More details ...
Mark is a co-founder of the Climate Literacy Network and attended the Inspiring Climate Education (ICE09) conference in Copenhagen to share insights about climate literacy efforts with colleagues from around the world. He is involved with the NASA funded Inspiring Climate Education Excellence (ICEE) project and the Climate LIteracy Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), which is an NSF National Science Digital Library Pathway.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
How Much Is Enough?
Will replacing bad or confused concepts about climate change with good or correct concepts improve our ability to address climate change? This is a topic that comes up often in climate literacy and communications circles. The short answer is: no. … Continue reading
Shedding Heat
Graphic from National Academy of Sciences: What You Need to Know About Energy The US Chamber of Commerce and Scholastic, Inc. have teamed up to develop and deploy an energy curriculum to 100,000 schools, with the aim of reaching six … Continue reading
Civic Climate Change Education
Matthew Nisbet has an important posting on the Big Think blog entitled: Investing in Civic Education about Climate Change: What Should Be the Goals? In the post he quotes from a draft white paper he’s put together for the National Academies … Continue reading
Hard to Bear
The call from many participants at both meetings was for an online clearinghouse and/or wiki that could help the broad higher education community share ideas, best practices, videos, survey instruments, and effective learning activities. But neither AASHE nor ACUPCC at this point seem to have the bandwidth or skill sets to develop such an online community. Continue reading
Reality Check
Very important and sobering update from our colleagues at Yale’s Project on Climate Change Communication: Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce the release of a new report entitled “Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change” based on a national study of … Continue reading
Just Sustainability
The Triumph of Justice by Hans von Aachen Fresh snow on the Continental Divide as I head into Denver on the bus for Day Two of the AASHE Conference. Keynote speaker Julian Agyeman from Tufts University makes a compelling case … Continue reading
10-10-10
There are many ways to interpret the decadal significance of October 10, 2010, otherwise known as 10/10/10, but the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, otehrsie known as AASHE, is hosting its sold-out annual conference with over 2010 participatns … Continue reading
Climate Adaptabilty
Climate Adaptation has, until now, been largely approached by cities and regions. Now, UCAR and the White House have just released a report on the National Climate Adaptation Summit held May 25-27, 2010 in Washington DC, which calls for development of a national adaptation strategy. Continue reading
