USF grant leads to climate change program for teachers

Posted Nov 7, 2011 by Lindsay Peterson

Updated Nov 7, 2011 at 01:26 PM

And now for some non-USF Polytechnic news.

It’s about climate change.

Last year, USF education and marine science professors received a big grant to create an education program about the consequences of sea-level rise.

Their first program starts today with a symposium for high school and college teachers. It’s at Blake High School, starting at 3:30 p.m.

There will be workshops, a poster session and a keynote address by Joe Levine, who writes about how to educate people to prepare them for the future.

Whatever you think about climate change, the evidence of sea-level rise is solid. It’s already happening.

We’ll be all right tomorrow and next year, but midway through this century, St. Petersburg and other low-lying areas of Florida will start going underwater.

We won’t all be around then, but our children and grandchildren will. Those of us who plan to leave our descendents that house on the beach – or anything in the bottom quarter of the state – should think again.

For more on the Coastal Areas Climate Change Education Partnership, go here.