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Trump on Climate Change -- Production, Audience, and Text are all connected.

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The statements could mark a softening in Trump's position on US involvement in efforts to fight climate change, although he did not commit to specific action in any direction. During the campaign, he vowed to "cancel" the US's participation in the Paris climate agreement, stop all US payments to UN programs aimed at fighting climate change and continued to cast serious doubt on the role man-made carbon dioxide emissions played in the planet's warming and associated impacts.

"I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much," Trump said Tuesday in a meeting with New York Times reporters, columnists and editors. He has previously called climate change a "hoax" invented by the Chinese.

Asked if he would withdraw the US from international climate change agreements, Trump said he is "looking at it very closely," according to Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were live-tweeting the meeting. He added that he has "an open mind to it," despite explicitly promising to withdraw from at least one climate accord on the campaign trail.

Still, Trump's comments do not amount to a full reversal.

The President-elect on the campaign trail repeatedly vowed to slash environmental protection regulations burdening US businesses and said that beyond the consequences to the planet, he is particularly mindful of the economic impact of combating climate change.

He said he is considering "how much it will cost our companies" and the effect on American competitiveness in the global market, according to a tweet from Grynbaum.

Trump's election sparked concerns from climate change activists that the incoming Republican president will roll back the progress made under the Obama administration.

President Barack Obama made inroads with other countries -- China in particular -- toward new international agreements to roll back global carbon emissions, progress activist groups have worried will be undone by a Trump presidency.

"The disaster that Donald Trump represents for the climate cannot be understated," Jamie Henn, a spokesman for 350.org, an environmental advocacy group, told CNN last week. "He is the only head of state in the world who is an all-out climate denier and he has the most radical, anti-environmental policies of anyone to ever assume the role of the presidency."

While Trump's comments on Tuesday may suggest an ambivalence -- if not a softening -- on the issue of climate change, the President-elect's actions suggest his election did not cause him to immediately abandon his climate skepticism.

Trump appointed a leading climate change denier Myron Ebell to lead his transition efforts on the Environmental Protection Agency and has not stepped back from his vow to slash environmental regulations he argued during the campaign are an undue burden on US businesses.

"Whether or not Trump acknowledges the connection between human pollution and climate change, the science is real. Climate change is happening, and fossil fuels are making it worse," Greenpeace USA spokesman Travis Nichols said. "No matter what he says, Trump's 100 days plan and his proposed Cabinet appointees put climate denial front and center in his administration and put the planet and its people at risk."

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trump admits humans have 'some connectivity' on climate change - cnnpolitics

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Trump admits 'some connectivity' between climate change and human activity

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President-elect Donald Trump conceded Tuesday there is "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change and wavered on whether he would pull the United States out of international accords aimed at combating the phenomenon, which scientists overwhelmingly agree is caused by human activity.

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Physics has a mediated life in and out of school.

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Physics has a mediated life in and out of school.

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Particle Fever Documentary

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European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Particle Fever Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Documentary HD

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Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to INDIE & FILM FESTIVALS: http://bit.ly/1wbkfYg Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Particle Fever Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Documentary HD Title: Particle Fever Distribution: BOND360, Abramorama Release Date: March 5, 2014 Directed By: Mark Levinson

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How is science communicated to the public?

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How is science communicated to the public?

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Gravitational Waves

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Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. Einstein's mathematics showed that massive accelerating objects (things like neutron stars or black holes orbiting each other) would disrupt space-time in such a way that 'waves' of undulating space-time would propagate in all directions away from the source. These cosmic ripples would travel at the speed of light, carrying with them information about their origins, as well as clues to the nature of gravity itself.

The strongest gravitational waves are produced by cataclysmic events such as colliding black holes, supernovae (massive stars exploding at the end of their lifetimes), and colliding neutron stars. Other gravitational waves are predicted to be caused by the rotation of neutron stars that are not perfect spheres, and possibly even the remnants of gravitational radiation created by the Big Bang.

The animation below illustrates how gravitational waves are emitted by two neutron stars as they orbit each other and then coalesce (credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center). Note that gravitational waves themselves are invisible. They are made visible here to illustrate their propagation away from the source.

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Though Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, the first proof of their existence didn't arrive until 1974. In that year, two astronomers, Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, using the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico discovered a binary pulsar 21000 light years from Earth. This was exactly the type of system that general relativity predicted should radiate gravitational waves. Knowing that the system could be studied to test Einstein's prediction, Taylor and two colleagues (Joel Weisberg and Lee Fowler) began tracking the radio emissions from the stars to measure how their orbital period changed over time. After just four years, they first reported seeing a change in the period that verified that the stars were getting closer to each other at the rate predicted by general relativity (GR) if they were radiating gravitational waves (the rate predicted by GR agreed with the observed rate to within one half of one percent). In 1993, Hulse and Taylor would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

Since then, many astronomers have studied pulsar radio-emissions (pulsars are neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves) and found similar effects, further confirming the existence of gravitational waves. But these confirmations had always come indirectly requiring that one infer the existance of GWs.t.

All of this changed on September 14, 2015 when LIGO physically sensed the undulations in spacetime caused by gravitational waves generated by two colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away. LIGO's first detection will go down in history as one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements.

While the processes that generate measurable gravitational waves are extremely violent, by the time the waves reach Earth they are thousands of billions of times smaller (due to the 'stiffness' of space), and much smaller when they reach us, much as sounds are weaker when you move further from the source. In fact, by the time gravitational waves from LIGO's first detection reached us, the amount of space-time wobbling they generated was a 10,000 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom! LIGO was designed to make such inconceivable, exquisitely small measurements. To learn how LIGO achieves this seemingly impossible task, visit LIGO's Interferometer.

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Physics has a mediated life in and out of school.

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Physics has a mediated life in and out of school.

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New Images of Pluto

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space astronomy "nasa missions" space.com

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Space.com is where humanity's journey to new and exciting worlds is transmitted back down to Earth. Where we vicariously explore the cosmos with astronauts, astrophysicists and enthusiasts. Here, we converse with the top minds in space exploration. Our mission: to keep you informed on the latest in space exploration, tech innovations, space travel polices and interstellar breakthroughs.

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Project Look Sharp:  Media Education in a Science Classroom

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Project Look Sharp:  Media Education in a Science Classroom

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"High School through College - this kit teaches core knowledge about the science of climate change, explores conflicting views, and integrates critical thinking skills. Students will apply knowledge of climate change to a rigorous analysis of media messages through asking and answering questions about accuracy, currency, credibility, sourcing, and bias. Lessons address basic climate science, the causes of climate change, scientific debate and disinformation, the consequences of global warming, the precautionary principle, carbon footprints, moral choices, and the history of global warming in media, science, and politics."

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Project Look Sharp :: K-12 & Higher Ed. Media Literacy Lesson Plans :: Ithaca College

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Project Look Sharp provides lesson plans, materials, training and support to help teachers integrate media literacy into their classroom curricula.

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CCR Writing Anchor #8:  Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility
and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
WHST.11-12.8:  “…assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and
audience…”

CCR Reading Anchor #6:  Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
RST.6-8.6:  “Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an
experiment in a text.”
RST.9-10.6:  “Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an
experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address.”
RST.11-12.6:  “Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an
experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.”

CCR Reading Anchor #9:  Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build
knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
RST.6-8.9:  “Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia
sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.”
RST.11-12.9: “Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a
coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.”

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11-12.LST.3.3: Analyze the author’s purpose in
providing an explanation, describing a procedure,
or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying
important issues that remain unresolved.

11-12.LST.7.2: Gather relevant information from
multiple types of authoritative sources, using
advanced searches effectively; annotate sources;
assess the strengths and limitations of each source
in terms of the specific task, purpose, and
audience; synthesize and integrate information
into the text selectively to maintain the flow of
ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any
one source and following a standard formant for citation (e.g., APA or CSE).

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“A well-documented, pulls-no-punches account of how science works and how political motives can hijack the process by which scientific information is disseminated to the public.” — Kirkus Reviews

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Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities - yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.

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Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin.