melting ice

I attended a seminar yesterday at the Norwegian Polar Environment Center in Tromsø about something called the Arctic Climate Impact Assesment (ACIA). Researchers, meteorologists, scientists, and biologists told the harrowing story of melting ice and rising temperatures in the Arctic and explained that by the year 2040, if not sooner, there may not be any summer ice in the Arctic. The charts and graphs and maps are astonishing and the effects will be bad. Real bad.

Later in the day I received an email in my NUFF Global account from a science teacher in Oregon who told me that the National Science Teachers Association in the U.S. turned down 50,000 free copies of the film "An Inconvenient Truth" because they are worried about losing money from special interests like Exxon. That means that 50,000 science teachers across the country lose out on a valuable and effective tool in relaying important information to American school kids about what is actually going on on this planet - something their current administration likes to ignore and deny. That's 50,000 science teachers times 20 to 30 kids per class...and then some.

If you feel inclined, feel free to send an email to Mr. Wheeler at gwheeler@nsta.org and tell him to take his mind off of political special interests and start thinking about the special interests of young people.