CALS 501

The elephant on the left most closely aligns with my intuitive thinking, which has been shaped by my lived experiences and education (Roberts et al.,… Read More »CALS501: The Elephant in the Room

When asking about the risks of climate change, you will most certainly receive different answers, depending on who you ask. Although it is widely accepted… Read More »Talk About an Elephant in the Room

By Joanna Burris, for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment Climate scientists and researchers have projected what the Earth’s climate will look like under… Read More »Using Shared Socio-economic Pathways to Visualize a Sustainable Future

You can not know what you do not know is a statement I have used throughout my professional and academic career to help humble myself… Read More »Beginning to Know What I Do Not Know

As global warming continues to impact our climate, I recently noticed the lack of understanding of the science behind it. For instance, Bennet et al… Read More »Understanding the Science Behind Global Warming

In 2010, a climate change writer put a question to his readers, “What should we call people who care about climate change and clean energy?”… Read More »Engaging emerging climate eyas

Climate science informs us that humans have unequivocally caused global warming and details what is driving the warming (Chen et al., 2021, p. 150). For… Read More »The Bad News but the Least We Should Know About Climate Change

Often, people ask me about climate change and the MACAL program. They ask. But they don’t always want to hear the answer. The question comes with an… Read More »Be Aware, Humans

Before taking MACAL CALS500 Climate Science, Impacts, and Services, I had the notion that the 2015 Paris target of “limiting global average temperature increase to… Read More »Climate Change Diagnosis

When you say to someone put your back into it, of course you are not actually asking them to shove their back into something. However,… Read More »Lost in Translation