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Don Haas (formerly Don Duggan-Haas)
@drdonhaas.bsky.social
Director of Teacher Programming, The Center for Climate Change Education at PRI
Co-author of The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change
Deputizer of climate communicators
Thinks we should talk more about fire
https://climate.earthathome.org/
Hello Friends!
It's Giving Tuesday! Take a minute and give a listen to my little video, and then please give!

A couple of links mentioned in the video are in the comments.

Thanks so much!

Links mentioned:
climate.earthathome.org
priweb.org/support
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The fundamental cruelty is outside of my paradigm. I'd like to see it move outside of the American paradigm.
Megyn Kelly here throwing her hat into what has traditionally been a man's game: "competitive depravity."

Like the men, she's attempting to gain elite status by presenting herself as a sadistic ghoul.

But women don't get rewarded for this, as Kristi Noem learned when bragging about puppy murder.
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
NYS teachers! New regulations bring expectations that climate change will be taught across K12 and across the curriculum.
Join us for a workshop on how we can help you meet the new expectations!
The description links to a blog post summarizing the changes. Please share!
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Supporting the Teaching of New York State's New Climate Expectations PRI Resources for Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum
Tue 16 Dec, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM [EST]: Climate change education policy is changing in New York State! The Paleontological Research Institution's Center for Climate Change Education has a wide array of r...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
He really posted it. Unbelievable. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It’s a sparkly morning in Buffalo! Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Here's an excerpt:
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hot off the presses!
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.

For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Climate Education is Changing in New York State!
Check out my fresh blog on what's happening!
www.priweb.org/blog-post/cl...
Climate Education is Changing in New York State — Paleontological Research Institution
by Dr. Don Haas On November 4, 2025, at the meeting of the Board of Regents, the Regents provisionally adopted instructional requirements for personal finance and climate education, marking the shi...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thursday at 7pm EST: Upending Assumptions About Life On Earth - on Science in the Virtual Pub!
Dr. Sol M. Gruner, John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell University
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Upending Assumptions About Life On Earth
Thu 13 Nov, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM [EST]: Dr. Sol M. Gruner, John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell University The discovery of living organisms in deep rock has upended assumptions about...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
hechingerreport.org/climate-chan...

If you're doing this kind of work, check out the resources from PRI's Center for Climate Change Education: climate.earthathome.org. Our Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change is friendly to more than just teachers!
climate.earthathome.org/teacher-frie...
Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees
University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
hechingerreport.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yeah. Sigh.
One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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@allenanalysis.bsky.social ♨️
HOLY HELL; 🔥
JB #Pritzker just went nuclear on #Trump:

“Donald Trump & his bootlickers have torn down the Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. And Donald Trump and his cronies can f*** all the way off.”

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November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Trick or treaters at my house will get to choose candy or fossil seashells.
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The report says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“A top source of young people’s hope for the future was faith in their own resilience. Which flies in the face of young people being these fragile snowflakes that crumble at the slightest pressure.”
We’re Missing the Good News About Youth Mental Health greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
We’re Missing the Good News About Youth Mental Health
There is a lot of positive news about young people's well-being that is not receiving much attention.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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4'11, almost 12 years old, still not big enough to "be seen"

#TruckBloat
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Join us Monday at 7pm EDT for our Favorite Climate Lessons Panel of high school teachers teaching climate electives!

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Favorite Climate Lessons Panel
Mon 27 Oct, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM [EDT]: Are you interested in teaching more about climate change? Are you interested in creating and teaching a new elective course for your school? Join us for our second...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
GSA peeps! Join me tomorrow at 2:05 in 301B! gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects25/s...
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Another fun Jim Henson & Frank Oz pairing of Ernie & Cookie Monster from SESAME STREET’s 2nd season. The comedy feels very much in the Muppet house-style, finely honed over hundreds of TV appearances/ads. I also very much sympathize with the message - From both perspectives.
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Join us Thursday @7pm EDT for "We need to conserve biodiversity. Improving our teaching will help" w/ Suzanne Macey, Ph.D., Asst. Dir. for Capacity Development, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History on Science in the Virtual Pub!

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We need to conserve biodiversity. Improving our teaching will help.
Thu 23 Oct, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM [EDT]: Suzanne Macey, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Capacity Development, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History Headlines about the...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM