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James Linzel

Debates | NCSE - 0 views

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  • James Linzel on 08 Mar 14
     
    Here are the reasons I eluded to before why I dislike debating science issues. Science is not a debate. Its positions are based on the evidence.
Jason Dillon

Global Warming and the Developing World - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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sustainability climate economics

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  • recent reports from the United Nations and the the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Jason Dillon on 02 Apr 14
     
    6 writers offer suggestions for action
James Linzel

Experts be damned: World population will continue to rise | Science/AAAS | News - 0 views

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experts world population rise science

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  • there’s a 95% chance the world population will be between 9 billion and 13.2 billion by the year 2100,
James Linzel

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change - YouTube - 0 views

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climate climate change limits emergent patterns matter

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  • James Linzel on 06 May 14
     
    This is a great talk about the use of modeling to predict future occurrences. Great for science and math.
Erin Rossing

For the Birds: Environmental Effects on Population | SMILE - 0 views

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applied learning environmental population math lessons

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  • Erin Rossing on 16 Feb 14
     
    Great math and science activities, many related to sustainability and environment
James Linzel

IPCC finally weighs in on how to avoid further climate change | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • growth is accelerating.
  • from 1970-2000 was about 0.4 billion tons more each year
  • three-quarters of these emissions come from fossil fuels
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  • rest come from things like deforestation, livestock production, and industrial pollutants.
  • much is due to economic growth and the rising use of coal in places like China.
  • population growth
  • Combining all anthropogenic climate forcings—including greenhouse gases, land use changes, and sunlight-reflecting aerosol particles—gives a net result equal to a CO2 concentration of around 430 parts-per-million
  • it must come back down to 450 parts-per-million by the end of the century
  • it’s clear that low-carbon options like renewables, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels with carbon capture will need to account for more than three-quarters of all electrical generation by 2050 if we’re going to meet that two degree Celsius target
  • Despite strong urban growth in many places, energy use in buildings could level off or decrease by the middle of this century if the right choices are made in terms of efficiency
  • long-lasting infrastructure we put in place now can determine, to a large degree, how much energy residents of a city will need to use
  • And while we’ve made some progress on deforestation, there’s potential there as well—forests and agricultural lands could be pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, rather than releasing more, by the end of the century
Jason Dillon

Shout: About the Project - 0 views

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environment science collaboration smithsonian

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  • Connect online to interact with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with people around the world who, like you, are committed to solving environmental challenges.
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Jason Dillon

Sting: How I started writing songs again | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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story song community economy culture

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  • Every morning as a child, I'd watch thousands of men walk down that hill to work in the shipyard. I'd watch those same men walking back home every night. It has to be said, the shipyard was not the most pleasant place to live next door to, or indeed work in. The shipyard was noisy, dangerous, highly toxic, with an appalling health and safety record. 2:34 Despite that, the men and women who worked on those ships were extraordinarily proud of the work they did, and justifiably so. Some of the largest vessels ever constructed on planet Earth were built right at the end of my street.
  • He said, "What the hell are you gonna do?" ♪ 11:23 ♪ I said, "Anything but this!" ♪ 11:26 ♪ These dead man's boots know their way down the hill ♪ 11:29 ♪ They can walk there themselves and they probably will ♪ 11:32 ♪ But they won't walk with me ‘cause I'm off the other way ♪ 11:35 ♪ I've had it up to here, I'm gonna have my say ♪ 11:37 ♪ When all you've got left is that cross on the wall ♪ 11:40 ♪ I want nothing from you, I want nothing at all ♪ 11:43 ♪ Not a pension, nor a pittance, when your whole life is through ♪ 11:46 ♪ Get this through your head, I'm nothing like you ♪ 11:49 ♪ I'm done with all the arguments, there'll be no more disputes ♪ 11:54 ♪ And you'll die before you see me in your dead man's boots ♪
  • So the procession is moving at a stately pace down my street, and as it approaches my house, I start to wave my flag vigorously, and there is the Queen Mother. I see her, and she seems to see me. She acknowledges me. She waves, and she smiles. And I wave my flag even more vigorously. We're having a moment, me and the Queen Mother. She's acknowledged me. And then she's gone. 13:50 Well, I wasn't cured of anything. It was the opposite, actually. I was infected. I was infected with an idea. I don't belong in this street. I don't want to live in that house. I don't want to end up in that shipyard. I want to be in that car.
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  • there's a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and science and technology, between community and economics. It's my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable.
  • Jason Dillon on 30 May 14
     
    see the interactive transcript also
Jason Dillon

Political Science professor focused on Sustainability: Baker, Jesse - College of Charle... - 2 views

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sustainability guest expert

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  • Jason Dillon on 27 Feb 14
     
    Jesse is a good friend of mine. He is now teaching Sustainability at the College of Charleston, but in the past has founded an NGO www.ecofficiency.org He did this TEDx talk while he was at UC Irvine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwGLENEuNGM He starts by saying, "Sustainability ... is a vague concept ... that has been manipulated by a wide variety of people and organizations in order to push projects and ideas... that aren't what I would call sustainable." He's done a lot of work with US and international schools over the years and would, no doubt, be willing to skype in to talk to our students.
Tom Musk

Effective Oral Presentations | Learn Science at Scitable - 0 views

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oral presentations

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  • hree components
  • Verbally (and as a general rule)
  • nstead, memorize the outline of your presentation
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  • Vocally, vary the tone, rate, and volume of your voice
  • Visually, control your body
  • practice more, pace yourself, and support your spoken discourse with appropriate slides
  • non-native speaker
  • Practicing helps you identify missing vocabulary
  • Practicing in front of an audience
  • During your presentation, pace yourself
  • Pacing yourself also means speaking more slowly than you otherwise might
  • Most speakers, even experienced ones, are nervous before or during an oral presentation
  • perhaps the most effective one is to focus constructively on your purpose at all times
  • Before your presentation, eliminate all the unknowns
  • Visualize what you want to achieve, not what you want to avoid
  • Tom Musk on 28 Aug 14
     
    This is a really useful guide to effective presentations. We can use it as a primary teaching tool.
James Linzel

Good news on ozone, bad news on greenhouse gases | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • James Linzel on 13 Sep 14
     
    " Good news on ozone, bad news on greenhouse gases The ozone layer is on track for recovery even as carbon emissions boom. by John Timmer - Sept 13 2014, 2:10am CST ShareTweet 42 The Montreal Protocol, created in response to the decline in the Earth's ozone layer, called for a world-wide phase out in the production of chemicals that were responsible for the ozone's decline. It is perhaps the greatest global environmental achievement to date. And, this week, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program announced it was working. Unfortunately, this week also saw the WMO release its annual greenhouse gas bulletin, and here the news was nowhere near as promising, as emissions returned to levels not seen since the 1980s. First, the good news. In the 2014 version of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, the WMO finds that the atmospheric concentrations of most of the chemicals covered by the Montreal Protocol are in decline. The exceptions are hydrochlorofluorocarbons, which are used in refrigeration, and halon, used in fire suppression. The WMO also noted that there must be some unidentified source of carbon tetrachloride to explain its persistence in the atmosphere."
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