Look what we found: The federally-funded Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program’s science blog is radically different than the two federal environmental blogs profiled here last week in that it, well, talks about science in a meaningful way. The GLOBE blog, written by the program’s chief scientist Dr. Peggy LeMone, serves a forum for high school students around the world to learn about and discuss earth science.

Dr. LeMone’s blog features a page dedicated to her climate change posts, and she even mentions scientific disputes over the International Panel on Climate Change’s carbon dioxide emissions estimates. She writes:

“Recently, a group of scientists estimated that the increase in carbon dioxide release rate between 2000 and 2006 was greater than any of the scenarios envisioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the late 1990s. This brings the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions to higher levels than even the worst-case scenario projected by the IPCC.”

Dr. LeMone not only talks about science and the environment without any politcal filter, she does it in a way that the average high school student—or adult, hopefully—can understand. She even deftly explains why “global warming” might not be the most accurate term.