As a follow up to our most recent Five Friday Facts about the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Summary for Policy Makers (PDF), National Public Radio’s Science Friday program had a wonderful discussion of science and how it is portrayed in the media. The panel, which included a Pulitzer Prize winner, a professor of [...]
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Five Friday Facts – IPCC
February 19th, 2010 
Eric Wilson For a slightly different take on the Five Friday Facts comes the “virtually certain” impacts of climate change. This data comes from the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) Summary for Policy Makers (PDF). Phenomenon and direction of trend Likelihood of future trends based on projections for 21st century using SRES scenarios Agriculture, forestry, and [...]
The Global Warming Debate: What’s Really Important
January 30th, 2010 Eric Wilson On one level I don’t care about global warming, because it doesn’t matter. On the other, I know it is an incredibly important concern, one that may have drastic effects on society. However, because it has become politicized and polarized, I have steered clear of it. I am a science teacher, but not entirely a [...]
Inefficient Devices and the Laws of Thermodynamics
January 23rd, 2010 Eric Wilson As a science teacher I can tell you that people find science scary. Perhaps you already knew that. They think it is something they “can’t do” or “don’t get.” They may say they do not have a scientific brain. I can also tell you that these are entirely untrue. Real world, personally accessible examples, instead [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Op-Ed, Photovoltaic, Science, Thermodynamics, Wind Power 
View CommentsRestoring Science to Its Rightful Place
February 10th, 2009 admin by Kim Novick, Guest Author “We will restore science to its rightful place.” – Barack Obama, January 20th 2009 Modern inaugural addresses haven’t been kind to science. In the 80 years preceding Obama’s inauguration, only Richard Nixon has spoken kindly of the discipline. FDR called science a “ruthless master of mankind.” Eisenhower spoke of its [...]
