{"id":1193,"date":"2012-09-11T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:04:55","slug":"cimss-launches-spanish-language-climate-change-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/1193","title":{"rendered":"CIMSS Launches Spanish Language Climate Change Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate Literacy Ambassadors project from the Cooperative Institute of Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) recently launched a Spanish language version of a course on climate change. <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/climatechange\/Espanol\/\"><em>Cambio Cilm\u00e1tico Global y Regional<\/em> <\/a>\u00a0explains the science behind the graphs and tables in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policy Makers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/climatechange\/Espanol\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Click to open course.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsite_565_437.jpg\" alt=\"screen capture of site\" width=\"565\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture of climate course front page.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The translation was done by Juan Botella who teaches weather and climate at Monona High School.<\/p>\n<p>Linked from a previously existing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/climatechange\/\">course<\/a>\u00a0some of the activities are still in English, but many significant activities are now available in Spanish such as the Carbon Projections\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/climatechange\/Espanol\/system\/lesson1\/CarbonCycleAppletSpanish\">Applet<\/a>\u00a0created by AOS professor Galen McKinely and SSEC programmer Tommy Jasmin and translated by Juan Botella.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsitegrfc_565_437.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196\" title=\"spanishsitegrfc_565_437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsitegrfc_565_437.jpg\" alt=\"graphics from spanish course\" width=\"565\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsitegrfc_565_437.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsitegrfc_565_437-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/09\/spanishsitegrfc_565_437-426x300.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture of images from the Spanish-language course.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This effort is part of the NASA-supported <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/education\/cla\/\">Climate Literacy Ambassadors Project<\/a> from CIMSS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Literacy Ambassadors project expanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}