Introducing climate change into the biochemistry and molecular biology curriculum

Henry V. Jakubowski; Nicholas Bock; Lucas Busta; Matthew Pearce; Rebecca L. Roston; Zachery D. Shomo; Cassidy R Terrell-Aguilar

doi:10.1002/bmb.21422

Introducing climate change into the biochemistry and molecular biology curriculum

Henry V. Jakubowski, Nicholas Bock, Lucas Busta, Matthew Pearce, Rebecca L. Roston, Zachery D. Shomo, Cassidy R Terrell-Aguilar

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Abstract

Our climate is changing due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases from the production and use of fossil fuels. Present atmospheric levels of CO₂ were last seen 3 million years ago, when planetary temperature sustained high Arctic camels. As scientists and educators, we should feel a professional responsibility to discuss major scientific issues like climate change, and its profound consequences for humanity, with students who look up to us for knowledge and leadership, and who will be most affected in the future. We offer simple to complex backgrounds and examples to enable and encourage biochemistry educators to routinely incorporate this most important topic into their classrooms.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21422
State	Accepted/In press - 2020

Keywords

curriculum design development and implementation
effective in-class problems
ethics in science and scientific research
learning and curriculum design
original models for teaching and learning
plant biochemistry

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