Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
Deputy Director, NCSE. Views expressed on BlueSky are my own and not necessarily NCSE's.
Glenn Branch is the deputy director of the National Center for Science Education. He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design and an activist against campaigns of suppressing teaching of evolution and climate change in school education. He is also a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. .. more
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From classrooms to communities: How adolescents and youths are reimagining climate education across Eastern and Southern Africa | Brookings
Ellen Chigwanda highlights how adolescents and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa are reimagining climate education through practical, community‑rooted approaches.
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"Across Eastern and Southern Africa, young people are not just learning about climate change -- they are shaping how it's taught."
Evolution Is Wrong Book by Erich von Daniken | Red Wheel/Weiser
Order Evolution Is Wrong by Erich von Daniken from Red Wheel/Weiser, your online bookstore for occult, spirituality, and personal growth books.
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I read the late Erich von Däniken's Evolution Is Wrong (2022) recently. It's remarkably bad, for a variety of reasons I would be pleased to explain, if a suitable venue presents itself ...
Florida DOGE embraces Trump’s disputed climate report
The DeSantis administration, seeking to curtail local spending, cited a Department of Energy report to question the "so-called climate crisis."
www.eenews.net
"The Department of Energy's misleading climate report is getting a second life in Florida."
High-stakes rock-paper-scissors: These lizards are all in on an evolutionary game
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"High-stakes rock-paper-scissors": the latest Evo in the News from Understanding Evolution.
DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss
Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.
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"Misleading. Unjustified. Hypocritical.
Those are just some of the words that Department of Energy scientists used to describe a 141-page report on climate change that was commissioned by DOE Secretary Chris Wright."
Those are just some of the words that Department of Energy scientists used to describe a 141-page report on climate change that was commissioned by DOE Secretary Chris Wright."
When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Since I've been baking rye bread recently, I was particularly interested in "When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us," from PBS Eons.
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Maryland's House Bill 620 would, if enacted, require the state's governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week.
Lessons for Teaching Evolution
The issue of teaching evolution in public schools is much more nuanced than a caricaturized “battle” between faith and science.
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Jamie Jensen and Joe Shane both offered thoughtful responses to a great article about Kitzmiller v. Dover, "Of Pandas and Science Curricula" by Monya Baker (@monyab.bsky.social).
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"Climate change and sustainability in science and social science primary school curricula": a new report from UNESCO.
A Chat with Mr. Scopes Monkey Trial
YouTube video by Secular Rising US
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Wesley Roberts, a veteran biology teacher in Tennessee, discusses the Scopes trial with Secular Rising US.
After Decades of Deflection, ExxonMobil Moves to Reshape Global Climate Accounting
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing Carbon Measures’ accounting scheme, which moves pollution “liabilities”...
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"An ExxonMobil-backed initiative, Carbon Measures, is pushing to reshape how the world does the math on climate change. Their system, outside analysts point out, leaves consumers holding the bag."
Reposted by Dawn J. Wright, Glenn Branch
Climate.us
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· 14d
Our project director Rebecca Lindsey features in a new TIME story, “The Women Saving America’s Climate Data.” The article features our efforts to save content created on behalf of NOAA and the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
You can access the full article through Climate.us "In the Press" page.
You can access the full article through Climate.us "In the Press" page.
Celebrate Darwin Day by attending Alex Bezzerides's talk for Bay Area Skeptics on "Evolution Gone Wrong," online at 7:30 p.m. Pacific on February 12!
Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science - Carbon Brief
In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science”
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In a wide-ranging interview with Carbon Brief, Ben Santer says the Trump administration is "engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science."
Conant the Barbarian? Part 1 | National Center for Science Education
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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In which I discuss creationist misuse of a quotation from James Bryant Conant.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
"Until 1832 the only legitimate supply of cadavers came from the end of the hangman's rope, and, although Britain had many crimes punishable by death, the supply was never enough to meet the demand."
"Until 1832 the only legitimate supply of cadavers came from the end of the hangman's rope, and, although Britain had many crimes punishable by death, the supply was never enough to meet the demand."
New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’ - Inside Climate News
Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.
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"Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world."
Tyrant Lizard Queen
From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T Rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistor...
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Tyrant Lizard Queen: a new book on its way from Riley Black (@restingdinoface.bsky.social)!
Pulling out of 66 international organizations, Trump turns his back on science, facts, reason
Under the Trump Administration, international law, conserving nature, protecting children from war, developing renewable energy, and building peace are issues antithetical to US interests.
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"I hope that the decision to withdraw from the IPCC will not be lost in the noise of dysfunction and chaos that now characterizes daily life in the United States," writes Ben Santer.
The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X
The ways that humans acquire information is undergoing a fundamental change comparable to the introduction of Gutenberg’s moveable type and printing press and the development of broadcast systems i...
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A new publication from yours truly, along with the rest of Jon D. Miller's team: "The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X."
Reposted by Dawn J. Wright, Glenn Branch
Climate.us
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· 26d
E&E by Politico gave a shoutout to Climate.us in a feature on the challenges of rescuing canceled climate data.
See this and other stories at www.climate.us#press.
#ClimateForUs
See this and other stories at www.climate.us#press.
#ClimateForUs
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90
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News of the death of Erich von Däniken, not only pseudoarchaeologist but also antievolutionist -- see, e.g., his Evolution Is Wrong: A Radical Approach to the Origin and Transformation of Life (2022).
Where things stand on climate change in 2026 » Yale Climate Connections
Last year saw the U.S. move backward on climate while China ascended. Here’s what to expect next.
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"The year that just ended saw numerous records broken on climate and clean energy," writes Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social).
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Lawrence S. Lerner, advocate for evolution education and NCSE Friend of Darwin, dies at 91 | National Center for Science Education
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Sad news of the death of Larry Lerner.
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 8
All the climate info that disappeared under Trump. And how it’s being saved.
Scientists are racing to rescue hundreds of datasets, websites and federal reports that have been deleted by the administration.
www.eenews.net
"Scientists are racing to rescue hundreds of datasets, websites and federal reports [with information about climate change] that have been deleted by the administration."
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 7
Did The Anti-Newtonian Inspire the Flat-Earth Movement? | Skeptical Inquirer
When Kelly Weill begins her capsule history of the modern flat-earth movement in the opening chapters of her recent book Off the Edge (Weill 2022; reviewed ...
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In which I argue that the Victorian flat-earth movement was unlikely to have been inspired by the obscure 1819 pamphlet The Anti-Newtonian. (Paywalled; e-mail me if you want a PDF.)
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 6
Garfield’s Evolution Debate | National Center for Science Education
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If you enjoyed "Death by Lightning," then surely you will want to know about James A. Garfield's participation in a debate over evolution in 1858.
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 5
The Forbidden Film Big Oil Tried to Erase
YouTube video by Climate Town
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A hilarious look at Fuel-less -- a Big Oil-funded propaganda featurette indebted to the movie Clueless -- from Climate Town (@climatetown.bsky.social).