Science Is Constantly Evolving

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The Unheard Voice for Evolution
I’m always on the lookout—or should I say on the listen?—for material to add to Voices for Evolution, NCSE’s compilation of statements supporting the teaching of evolution and opposing attempts to undermine it. In the most recent edition, published in 2008, there were no fewer than 176…
The Globe: Still Warming
    Paul Sinclair of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media produced this great video to respond to claims that climate change somehow stopped in the last decade and a half.  As the video observes, oceans absorb most of the added heat trapped by the human-produced…
Evolution, Fire Ecology, and Climate Change
“Gnats flitted on the warm, dry, summer breeze, some settling on the surface of Pinecrest Lake. It was strangely overcast, as if storm clouds were gathering over the western foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada. However, before long the unmistakable odor of distant wildfire smoke filled the air…
Are the Next Generation Science Standards an Improvement for Climate?
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) this past April, we at the NCSE offices have been fielding calls from reporters wanting to know the dish. What are these new standards? How will they affect the teaching of climate change and evolution in public schools? Why do we…
Laboring for science education
While taking the day off for Labor Day, I couldn’t help thinking about all that the science education community owes labor unions. When a teacher calls NCSE for help fending off pressure from administrators who want to see creationism taught and climate change denied, the first thing we ask is “…
How Many Creationists in Science?
I’m in the process of rereading Donald R. Prothero’s Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future, in preparation of writing a review of it. It’s a fantastic book. Unfortunately, “it’s a fantastic book” is four words long, leaving me the task of finding a further 1996 words to…
A glimpse of Rising Sea Levels
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Hunt Janin and Scott A. Mandia's Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact (McFarland & Company, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 12, "A Range of Options to Cope with Sea Level Rise," in which Janin and Mandia look "at two…
How Do We Talk about Climate Change?
I am not the average American. It isn't that I needed the most recent report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication to tell me that. But the results of their survey of how Americans communicate about…
NCSE's Scott profiled in The New York Times
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was profiled in the September 3, 2013, issue of The New York Times. Scott, the Times reported, "is nearing the end of a 27-year stint as executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which despite a…

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