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Why a Special Issue on Climate Change?

Observing the world around us, we are noticing changes that contrast with our memories of earlier days both of us experienced in California. Frequent and prolonged Santa Ana wind conditions. Extended fire “season”. King tides just a little bit bigger each year. Heavier one-time rain dumps breaking up months and months of drought. Our respective jobs put us in direct contact with scientists who keep us on the edge of our seats, giving us the play-by-play of what it all means. Climate change is inevitable – and as evidence from the Earth reveals, recent changes are unprecedented.

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Forward: PK-12 Education as a pillar of the solution for bending the global warming curve

Author: V. Ram Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Climate change is an urgent problem. Because it is causing new weather extremes and fatal catastrophes, climate change is better termed climate disruption. Bending the curve to flatten the upward trajectory of pollution emissions responsible for climate disruption is essential for protecting billions of people from this global threat. Education must become a pillar and an integral part of the solution.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Teaching climate change by leveraging scientific consensus to dispel social controversy

Alan Colburn
Professor
Science Education Department
California State, University, Long Beach

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance

Thanks to Ann Reid for her comments and to John Cook, Brad Hoge, and all the teachers and scientists who helped to develop NCSE’s misconceptionbased lesson plans for teaching climate change effectively

On Climate Justice

Claudio Vargas
Educational Consultant
Sci-Lingual Education

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance


Forward: PK-12 Education as a pillar of the solution for bending the global warming curve

Cheryl Peach
Director, Scripps Educational Alliances
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance

How we Know Human CO2 Emissions are Causing Climate Change

Neal Driscoll, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Mike Gunson
Manager of the Global Change & Energy Program and the Project Scientist for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology

Cheryl Peach
Director, Scripps Educational Alliances
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance

Lesson Series Companion to How we Know Human CO2 Emissions are Causing Climate Change

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance


Paleoclimatology: How We Know Earth’s Climate History

Mathieu Richaud
Associate Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
California State University, Fresno

Cheryl Peach
Director, Scripps Educational Alliances
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance


Equity in a Time of Socio-Environmental Justice

Jill Grace
Statewide Director WestEd’s K-12 Alliance


Grace, J. & Peach, C. (Eds.). (2021). Climate Science [Special Edition]. California Journal of Science Education, 11(1). Retrieved from: https://journal.cascience.org/index.php