Editor’s Corner: Everybody Talks About It

Articles in this issue of The Science Teacher (TST) show how the weather and climate theme offers a rich opportunity for interdisciplinary inquiry in our science classes. An integrated, interdisciplinary investigation of climate may perhaps inspire students to take action, on a personal or community level, to affect lifestyle and other changes that can help mitigate our negative impacts on the atmosphere. It is time to prove Mark Twain wrong, once and for all, when he said “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it” by replacing his witticism with a new one for the 21st century: “Everybody talks about the weather, but now we all are doing something positive about it.”

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2007Stock # tst07_074_06_8Volume 074Issue 06

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