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: January 2011
Cultivate Our Garden
Recently I visited my wife who started a new job near Geneva, Switzerland. She lives on the French side of the Geneva Airport in a town called Ferney Voltaire, Voltaire being the Eighteenth century French philosopher perhaps most famous for … Continue reading
Global Weirding
Graphic courtesy of Cohen/NSF On the Climate Literacy Network call today, which was slightly delayed due to technical difficulties but managed to continue the three year tradition of weekly telecons every Tuesday at 1PM Eastern, there was a discussion about … Continue reading
1/1/11- All One
A 24 hour time lapse from the webcam mounted on DISH Network’s EchoStar 11 Satellite in geostationary orbit 22,000 above the Pacific. For some reason today, I can’t help but be reminded of the old joke: What did the Zen … Continue reading
