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Video: YouTube - The American Denial of Global Warming

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VIDEO: Video: YouTube - The American Denial of Global Warming

Summary

58 minutes

Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS

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Context for use/teaching notes

This video can be used to generate discussion around the differences of opinions around climate science, climate change skeptism and climate change deniers.

Assessment:

Assessment is at the discretion of the educator and how this video is applied and the participation expected.

The Author

Ginny Brown Ginny Brown came to NCSE as the Project Director for the NSF funded CAMEL (Climate, Adaptation, Mitigation, E-Learning) project. This work centers on developing a community of climate change educators, researchers and students to combat the impact of climate change.  Ginny has twelve years experience in working with academia at both the undergraduate and  graduate level.  Prior to coming to NCSE, Ginny was  the Program Director for the Vulcan Mater ... (Full Bio)

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