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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Tag Archives: China
Losing the Edge
The current issue of The Atlantic has a number of sobering articles on how the United States is, well, struggling with science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, as well as clean energy, especially as it relates to coal. Continue reading
Gloomy Doomy
One of the biggest challenges we face in the shadow of the gloom and doom is how to meaningfully engage young people, (who we hear from educators on the front lines are increasingly overwhelmed and feel powerless to do anything meaningful about climate change,) in a mature manner that goes beyond “We messed things up and now you are going to have to fix it.” Continue reading
Global Action Plan in China
Providing teachers with professional development around climate science (and solutions) is a topic near and dear to us at CIRES Education & Outreach. We’ve just finished a six day workshop “Inspiring Climate Education Excellence” (or ICEE) funded by NASA’s Global … Continue reading
