https://www.globalwarmingprimer.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Global-Warming-Primer-Answering-Consequences/dp/1937548783

Astrophysicist Dr. Jeffrey Bennett was an invited keynote speaker at the AAPT National Meeting this past summer. He has produced a website and a downloadable/print book (forthcoming second edition) of a Global Warming Primer—including a friendly summary of the basic science appropriate for instruction to children, and refuting common arguments of climate change skeptics and other merchants of doubt. Bennett discusses expected global warming consequences and helpfully details a hopeful agenda about how we are going to science our way out of this problem in which we have largely unintentionally enmeshed ourselves. He closes with a “letter to your grandchildren” where the letter writer describes which actions (s)he promises to undertake. Physics teachers have told me of “eco-anxiety,” where grade school children are upset and fearful and feel powerless, particularly with the most recent extraordinary drop in air quality due to the Canadian forest fire smoke of...

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