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Frank Niepold

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NOAA’s Frank Niepold on the Climate Crisis, the Biden Administration’s Climate Agenda & ‘Climate Literacy’

Thursday, Dec. 3
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Q&A following presentation
Guests welcome
Zoom access below
Science is doing its part to alert the world to the dangers of unchecked Global Warming. Today, it’s time for global citizens to step up to the challenge by becoming a “climate literate” force to be reckoned with. Frank Niepold, Climate Education Coordinator at NOAA’s Climate Program Office, will tell us how in his presentation on NOAA in 2021, the state of the climate and the work ahead as the Biden Administration rolls out its climate agenda.
Climate literacy is not just something NOAA is actively pursuing — public education is mandated by Article 6 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To further its climate education mission, Niepold says NOAA is hoping that the incoming Biden Administration will support Article 6 as part of its plans to rejoin the Paris Agreement.
“The science is clear. It is not too late, but it is getting close,” says Niepold, whose work at NOAA includes developing the Clean Network, since 2008 a gathering place for teachers and others — “kindred souls,” he calls them — who are engaged in climate education. He is also the lead on “Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science,” a guide for learners of all ages.
The changing climate is the “single most important issue we face,” says Niepold. And while the reports are seemingly dire, Niepold assures that we can succeed, citing the “massive opportunities” for society to rebuild the economy and create not only a healthier planet but “jobs, jobs, jobs” in clean energy.
Bio
Frank Niepold is currently the Climate Education Coordinator at NOAA’s Climate Program Office and co-chair of the Climate Education Interagency Working Group at the US Climate Change Science Program. At NOAA, he develops and implements NOAA’s Climate goal education and outreach efforts. He is a co-managing author of the 2009 USGCRP released “Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science,” a collaborative effort of NOAA, NSF, NASA, AAAS Project 2061, CIRES, the American Meteorological Society, and various members from both the science and education community to define climate literacy in the United States.
He received his MSEd in Earth Space Science Education (2006) from John’s Hopkins University with areas of concentration in Earth Observing Systems, Scientist/Teacher/Student Collaboration and Earth Systems science education focused on climate.
Links
Clean Network
“Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science”
(Scroll down the page to download the guide in English or Spanish.)
Zoom access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83935564638?pwd=OUJjeVRQTmFpVkVyTTBNZFVRMTlBdz09

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