Good morning! When you retire or continue working past retirement age, I believe it's the perfect time to go back to school or get involved in self-directed learning (SDL) activities. Let me explain why: Mastering a Skill Takes Time It typically takes 6-8 years to truly master a skill or subject, whether through formal education... Continue Reading →
Adaptive Resiliency Notes…
Here are some AI generated notes on how I can craft a compelling description about tackling the Climate Emergency via Adaptive Resiliency and build my knowledge base: Crafting the Description: Hook: Start with a strong hook that grabs attention. Highlight the urgency of the Climate Emergency: "Our planet faces an unprecedented challenge..." "The time to... Continue Reading →
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote... Continue Reading →
FREE DOWNLOAD: The Essential Principles of Climate Literacy
This is a guest blog by Michael Tippett (professor at Columbia University) and Tim DelSole (professor at George Mason University), adapted from material in their new text book Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists. Predictability is a word that often comes up in discussions here on the ENSO Blog (another is variability). Let’s see if we... Continue Reading →
What is predictability?
Enshrining the curriculum in law insulates the subject from budget cuts and culture wars related to the climate crisis Starting next July, Connecticut will become one of the first states in America to mandate climate change studies across its public schools as part of its science curriculum. The new law passed earlier this year comes... Continue Reading →
‘Face it head on’: Connecticut makes climate change studies compulsory
On the way home from school last week, my daughter told me she’d learned about climate change in her classroom for Earth Week. She and her twin brother are in kindergarten, and because I work on climate change professionally, I’ve been talking with them about it at home for a few years. In truth, I... Continue Reading →
Why Schools Need Need Evidenced-Based Climate Curriculums
A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems. The authors of the study used statistical and cognitive science techniques to analyze data from a survey of 1,400 residents across the U.S. East Coast.... Continue Reading →
Study links urbanization to poor ecological knowledge, less environmental action
Communicating on climate change is about educating and mobilizing audiences to take action to confront the climate crisis. Everyone can play a part by raising their voice, sharing solutions, and advocating for change – shaped by different experiences, cultural contexts, and underlying values. If you are creating a communications product – such as a video, a... Continue Reading →
Communicating on Climate Change
Training on Climate Data Tools with Climate Watch: Country Profiles
Climate Watch is a free online platform designed to empower policymakers, advocates, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. . Video Source Site Link
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort to provide accessible and engaging critical thinking information to the general public. Please see this overview to find links to other reposts from Thinking is Power. And why most of what you... Continue Reading →
Science: What it is, how it works, and why it matters
The United States Census Bureau projected that the U.S. would become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. The 2020 Census confirms that assertion, finding that the U.S. population was more racially and ethnically diverse than ten years prior. The survey found that the “most prevalent racial or ethnic group for the United States was... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 