NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/07/22
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-07-22 17:00.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, Kudos for Naomi Oreskes.
CONGRATULATIONS TO NAOMI ORESKES NCSE is delighted to congratulate Naomi Oreskes on receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication for 2016. Presented by Climate One, a project of the Commonwealth Club of California, the award is "given to a natural or social scientist who has made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that knowledge to a broad public in a clear and compelling fashion." Ben Santer, a member of the award jury as well as a member of NCSE's board of directors, commented in a July 13, 2016, press release, "Oreskes is one of the world's pre-eminent historians of science," adding, "Her 2004 Science paper ["The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change"] helped to quantify, for the first time, the broad scientific consensus on climate change. Her recent research unmasked the forces behind denial of human effects on climate and improved our chances of having a responsible, science-based discussion of climate change solutions." A professor of the history of science at Harvard University, Oreskes is the author, with Erik M. Conway, of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (2010). Her previous honors include the 2009 Francis Bacon Medal for scholarship in the history of science and technology, the 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year, and NCSE's Friend of the Planet Award in 2015. For the press release from Climate One, visit: http://climateone.org/2016-stephen-h-schneider-award-outstanding-climate-science-communication-bestowed-upon-dr-naomi For Josh Rosenau's blog post about Oreskes's Friend of the Planet award, visit: https://ncse.com/blog/2015/03/congratulations-to-naomi-oreskes-2015-friend-planet-winner-0016243 And for a free excerpt (chapter 6) from Merchants of Doubt, visit (PDF): https://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Excerpt--merchants.pdf WHAT'S NEW FROM THE SCIENCE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Have you been visiting NCSE's blog, The Science League of America, recently? If not, then you've missed: * Guest blogger Lauren Saville discussing the importance of teaching human evolution: https://ncse.com/blog/2016/07/importance-teaching-human-evolution-0018306 * Ann Reid discussing a disturbing subpoena aimed at intimidating action on climate: https://ncse.com/blog/2016/07/whos-next-0018309 * Stephanie Keep discussing research on ecological factors in marine mammal evolution: https://ncse.com/blog/2016/07/tale-two-guilds-0018307 And much more besides! For The Science League of America, visit: http://ncse.com/blog Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600 Oakland CA 94612-2922 510-601-7203 fax 510-788-7971 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's blog, Science League of America: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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