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@UchennaEmenaha I agree, but I also worry that students don't have a perspective about scientific problems that don't have an immediate impact on their lives (e.g. smoking and cancer, fossil fuels and climate change).

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A8: A bit outside the box: Consider having students make some claims that are false and then disprove the claim and 2) have the find situtations in which a model gives a wrong answer. #NSTAchat

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A6 We certainly need to assess more than how well they understand model results. We need to assess whether or not students understand the process they used to arrive a scientific claim. #NSTAchat

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@MarkWindschitl Don't know that there's ever been a topic that is so well understood by scientists and yet so misunderstood by the public. #NSTAchat

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A5 2/2 Some issues, like climate change have gone straight from no one believes in the phenomenon and politics to activism. The science has sort of gotten left behind by both viewpoints. #NSTAchat

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A5. 1/2 When the concerns are societal and future oriented students have a huge role (it's their future after all). However, I don't believe societal should dominate as much as it does in science these days.

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@caahayes It's important to know that one can change their mind based on new evidence, but it's much more common that we do not change our minds, and that what we actually do is refine our ideas.

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A4: GCMs in particular can be used to understand the nature of science even in no-analog or highly non-linear systems (e.g. future climate change) #NSTAchat

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Some models are particularly good at examining claims over time. Global Climate Models, for example, are not statistically driven, but are based on fundamental physical laws. #NSTAchat

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Models provide a simplified and idealized environment to test claims. That gives learners the opportunity to explore topics that are beyond what data can provide and they allow us to make predictions for scenarios that are out-of-bounds for available data.
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Hi, I'm Mark Chandler @EdGCMProject. I'm a climate scientist at NASA and Columbia University and specialize in climate modeling (and make those models available to educatiors).
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We'll be chatting about Climate Modeling in the Science Classroom on November 12 at 9Pm ET. #NSTAchat

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More about the possible history of our own habitable planet https://t.co/i3QZHSG1mP https://t.co/PrRinJLjz0

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NExSS PI Vlad Airapetian: Solar storms a key to solving the Faint Young Sun paradox?

https://t.co/r8jeplurzt

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@fukue Our web site is scheduled for replacement shortly. In the meantime, pages will load, but slowly...

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@pitakakariki @mankoff @ClimateOfGavin There is a free EdGCM demo that would allow such runs. Not possible to exactly replicate them though.

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Just redid NASA's original global warming experiments using EzGCM. Cool! ...or maybe I should say HOT.

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The pattern of warming shown in my EzGCM simulation looks a lot like this heat wave. Yikes!

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Look how much hotter the Earth will get in our lives based on IPCC and EdGCM. Kinda depressing during a heatwave, huh?