
{"id":1011,"date":"2013-09-08T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mesas\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2013-09-18T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:42:48","slug":"undergraduate-students-scouring-internet-for-global-warming-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/2013\/09\/08\/undergraduate-students-scouring-internet-for-global-warming-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate students scouring internet for global warming articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching my <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mesas\/teaching\/global-environmental-change\/\" title=\"Global Environmental Change (ESCI 3101)\" target=\"_blank\">Global Environmental Change<\/a> this semester and the students have been busy reading and putting together response papers to the readings.  This past week, I asked the students to find a news article published in 2013 about climate change.  Not a hard search really, but I also asked them to evaluate or talk about how they evaluated the expertise of the author of the article.  Many of the articles below give a glimpse into what students are thinking about with climate change.  Here is the list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/09\/130902-hurricanes-climate-change-superstorm-sandy-global-warming-storms-science-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes striking coast could decrease with global warming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/aug\/28\/cooling-pacific-dampened-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\">Cooling Pacific dampened global warming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/20\/science\/earth\/extremely-likely-that-human-activity-is-driving-climate-change-panel-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Summary of IPCC AR5 panel findings<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/comment\/europe-needs-pacific-allies-in-fight-against-climate-change-20130903-2t2b7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific allies in fight against climate change<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/61801\/how-climate-change-politics-are-ruining-african-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\">Climate change policies in Europe and adverse impacts on African agriculture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/politics\/is-global-warming-really-slowing-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is global warming slowing down?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/08\/30\/climate_change_some_media_coverage_is_getting_better.html\" target=\"_blank\">An advocacy piece centered on Hardball interview with Professor Michael Mann and a Republican strategist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/24\/world\/climate-arctic-methane\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Climate sticker shock related to Arctic melt<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/event-tracker\/new-record-temperature-southwest-greenland\" target=\"_blank\">Record temperature in Greenland<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insights.wri.org\/news\/2013\/05\/5-achievements-germanys-energiewende\" target=\"_blank\">Germany&#8217;s energy outlook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/east-coast-rising-seas-slower-gulf-stream-20130213\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Stream slowdown linked to faster rate of sea level rise on USA East Coast<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/11\/us\/climate-change-will-cause-more-energy-breakdowns-us-warns.html\" target=\"_blank\">Climate change impacts on the energy infrastructure<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solar-center.stanford.edu\/sun-on-earth\/glob-warm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Global warming primer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1701902\/barack-obama-state-of-the-union-gun-control-climate.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV rocks the POTUS SOTU 2013 party<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=could-carbon-farms-reverse-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\">Carbon farms reversing global warming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/sep\/01\/climate-change-warm-words-cool-waters\" target=\"_blank\">Pause in global warming should not translate to pause in action<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching my Global Environmental Change this semester and the students have been busy reading and putting together response papers to the readings. This past week, I asked the students to find a news article published in 2013 about climate change. Not a hard search really, but I also asked them to evaluate or talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[28,27,53],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-system-observer","tag-global-environmental-change","tag-teaching","tag-undergraduate-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2kjqv-gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}