CCNF to present at AGU Fall Meeting: “Advancing Science Literacy Through the Climate Change National Forum”
UPDATE 11/12/2014: If you plan on attending AGU14, we hope to see you at Dr. Nielsen-Gammon’s oral session and that you stop by CCNF’s booth (#2714) in the exhibit hall during the peak hours. Stay tuned for more CCNF updates and events to be announced on our Twitter feed, @ClimateChangeNF!
Advancing Science Literacy Through the Climate Change National Forum
Session: Climate Literacy and the Culture of Science: Promoting understanding of how science works.
Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon
Abstract: The Climate Change National Forum was established almost a year ago to provide a publicly visible platform for discussion of scientific issues related to climate change and, at a later date, policy options motivated by climate change science. The site is also designed to promote public literacy in the culture and conduct of science by incorporating dozens of active scientists in a broad range of climate science and related fields and encouraging dialogue among those scientists. The forum provides a rare window into scientific debate, allowing non-scientists to see how scientists evaluate the work of others, construct meaning out of various bits of evidence, formulate ideas, challenge their colleagues, and (on occasion) develop a consensus. As such, the site is intended to have educational value well beyond its climate science focus.
Presentation Type: Oral
Session Date and Time: Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 9:15-9:30 AM
Location: Moscone South, 102
Exhibit hall at the AGU Fall Meeting. Source: fallmeeting.agu.org. Republished under fair use.
CCNF’s oral session and exhibition present a fantastic opportunity for the project to grow its national profile and, most importantly, get more scientists and experts to join our science columnist community and participate in this national dialogue! CCNF managed to send a representative and get a booth at last year’s conference, but that was before the dialogue had even officially begun. It was just an idea and beta website then. Now it’s a reality, and it’s working!
The Forum has demonstrated some considerable success these past 9 months. We’ve built an engaged community of leading climate and physical scientists, gained a readership that spans scientific and political spectrums, and are truly advancing climate literacy in America. We have also built a #SciComm brand that will likely be recognized by thousands at the conference. We look forward to engaging with all kinds of scientists, science communicators, students, educators, journalists and readers throughout the week’s events. We expect to sign on a large contingent of new science columnists during or shortly after the conference. We’re stocked!
“#CCNF is so hot right now. We can’t wait for Dr. Nielsen-Gammon’s presentation at #AGU14. #Climate #SciComm #SciPolicy” Source. Republished under fair use.
Author: Michael Quirke
Michael Quirke is the executive director of CCNF and is serving as the Forum's journalist. He first began work on an early beta version of this website in 2010, shortly after his military service and before starting law school at the University of Houston Law Center. He helped form the CCNF nonprofit under the leadership of its founding board members during his second year of law school and has been leading the growth of the organization as its executive director and covering the discussion and debate as the Forum's journalist ever since. In late 2014, he joined the organization's board. His vision for this journalism project is simple: Establish an open Socratic forum for scientists, give each scientist complete independence on the platform, encourage Socratic inquiry by all and ask questions, and impartially report what transpires; and then, once a good foundation in the science is set, host and cover a bipartisan policy debate by a diverse group of experts on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation based on the science established by the scientists. He hopes you join him on this intellectual journey.
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