Lore wrote:The discussion is actually about who is dragging their feet. Policy makers willfully ignoring the problem equals no action.
Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial.
About this course
In public discussions, climate change is a highly controversial topic. However, in the scientific community, there is little controversy with 97% of climate scientists concluding humans are causing global warming.
Why the gap between the public and scientists?
What are the psychological and social drivers of the rejection of the scientific consensus?
How has climate denial influenced public perceptions and attitudes towards climate change?
This course examines the science of climate science denial.
We will look at the most common climate myths from “global warming stopped in 1998” to “global warming is caused by the sun” to “climate impacts are nothing to worry about.”
We’ll find out what lessons are to be learnt from past climate change as well as better understand how climate models predict future climate impacts. You’ll learn both the science of climate change and the techniques used to distort the science.
With every myth we debunk, you’ll learn the critical thinking needed to identify the fallacies associated with the myth. Finally, armed with all this knowledge, you’ll learn the psychology of misinformation. This will equip you to effectively respond to climate misinformation and debunk myths.
This isn’t just a climate MOOC; it’s a MOOC about how people think about climate change.
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What you'll learn
How to recognise the social and psychological drivers of climate science denial
How to better understand climate change: the evidence that it is happening, that humans are causing it and the potential impacts
How to identify the techniques and fallacies that climate myths employ to distort climate science
How to effectively debunk climate misinformation
Level: Introductory
Length: 7 weeks
Effort: 1-2 hours per week
Subject: Communication
Institution: UQx
Languages: English
Video Transcripts: English
Price: FREE
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Prerequisites
Basic high school science recommended.
onlooker wrote:Great find Dohboi, yes that for sure says it all. Got to feel bad so much ignorance abounds. These people have truly been brainwashed. Just goes to show you just having a brain is not sufficient. One must learn to use it and use it critically.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
"conservatives" by definition, do not like change
Pops wrote:
I've been saying this from the beginning of the Great Climate Change Doom faction co-opting the environment forum here, you might as well try to shame "deniers" and "shills" into saying they don't believe in God
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