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the meeting by saying, "This is a wonderful time to be a global warming realist ;' <br />using the term that those in the movement use to describe themselves. <br />"Those of us in the room who have been working on this issue for a decade or <br />longer can finally stand up and say hallelujah and welcome to the party;' said <br />Bast. He was met with applause from the 200 or so people in the audience. <br />Their message has been embraced by some educators. A survey of 1,500 science <br />teachers nationwide, funded by NCSE and published in the journal Science last <br />year (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6274/664), found more than half <br />taught their students that humans are unequivocally causing climate change. <br />But 31 percent of teachers told their students that the cause of climate change is <br />still being debated. About one in 10 teachers teach children that humans had no <br />significant role in climate change, the study showed. <br />The author of the survey, Eric Plutzer, professor of political science at Pennsylva- <br />nia State University, said those results reflect the fact that climate change can <br />be challenging to teach: It doesn't slide neatly into any of the required sciences, <br />comprising some biology, some chemistry and some physics. Science teachers <br />themselves may not have encountered the science of climate change much in <br />their own education. <br />