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What, exactly, is causing Earth’s climate to change, and how do we know?  What difference will a few degrees more or less—or a little more rain or sunshine—make to our own lives?  What will an altered climate mean to our students?  What are we doing, and what more can we do, to prevent, minimize, and adapt to these changes and their effects? 


Such questions are everybody’s business.  Indeed, they are driving research and teaching all over CSU:  we are a key site for such research.  But those of us who are concerned about climate change don’t necessarily know each other, and the knowledge our research is producing isn’t necessarily making its way to our students—or off campus to the larger community. 

Changing Climates @ Colorado State is addressing these challenges.  We are building a network of faculty and researchers from every CSU college whose interests and research coalesce around climate change.  We are educating each other and ourselves.  We are helping faculty across the curriculum add climate content to their courses.  And in the next few years, we will be offering programs on the many aspects of climate change to the student body and the public.


This fall kicks off the CC@CSU program with a series of seminars for faculty and staff, a series we’ll continue in the spring of 2008.  During the 2008-09 school year, we will offer a similar series for larger audiences. 


Please join our network if you’re interested.  If you’d like help adding climate materials to any courses you teach, contact SueEllen Campbell or John Calderazzo, who will put you in touch with the right people.  And look around our website for additional information.