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An Amusing Paper on Education about Extreme Global Heating (often euphemized as "climate change." )

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An Amusing Paper on Education about Extreme Global Heating (often euphemized as "climate change." )

I came across this opinion piece in the most recent issue of Environmental Science & Technology.

Viewpoint: Catalyzing Climate Solutions through Energy and Carbon Education Bruce E. Logan, Mim Rahimi, Li Li, Lea R. Winter, Wei Peng, and Brandi J. Robinson Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (46), 20333-20335

It's open sourced, anyone can read it.

I rather enjoyed (albeit in a cynical despairing way) this paragraph:

...An educational challenge of units and big numbers. A key educational challenge for developing curricula around climate solutions for a broader university audience is how to improve the tangibility of quantifying energy consumption and carbon emissions, which is often muddled by big numbers and esoteric units. Most people do not have the training to equate different energy units, for example, to compare kilowatt-hours of electricity with gallons of gasoline. Many energy units, such as quads (quadrillion BTU) or exajoules, are also just too "big" to sensibly comprehend. Translating energy consumption into carbon emissions is nontrivial. Finally, educating diverse audiences about how to assess the effectiveness of different climate solutions requires the presentation of energy and carbon associated with activities such as choices of food, clothing, and transportation in broadly understandable numbers...

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