The Alliance for Climate Education: Climate Change for Teenagers

December 30, 2010 from Earth Focus

The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) is using a new approach to engage a new generation on climate change. Through high school assemblies around the country, ACE pairs climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC) with animated video and music, to inspire students to be the change this planet needs. And this hip message is making a difference. Learn more in this special segment from Earth Focus.

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A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that ascribed by social institutions such as family, work, home and school. Youth subcultures that show a systematic hosti... Explore this topic

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or p... Explore this topic

Environment

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Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Cli... Explore this topic

Climatology

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Alliance for Climate Education

Alliance for Climate Education, or ACE, is the national leader in high school climate science education. ACE is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides free multimedia assemblies on climate science and solutions to high schools. Since 2009, ACE has reached more than 700,000 students... Explore this topic

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