SUMMARY

6:21 minutes

Selected for the CLEAN Collection.

In the face of a changing global environment, knowledge is power. Advancing the Science of Climate Change, one of four panel reports from the America's Climate Choices project, maps out the realm of our accumulated knowledge regarding climate change and charts a path forward, urging that research on climate change enter a new era focused on the needs of decision makers. In this video, the leaders of that panel, Drs. Pamela Matson and Thomas Dietz, describe the panel's key findings and the lines of evidence that brought them to those conclusions.

GOALS

To help communicate the causes and consequences of climate change and "how do we know" that climate change is occurring.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS

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Watch >> America's Climate Choices: Advancing the Science of Climate Change

TEACHING NOTES / CONTEXT FOR USE

This short video can be used for formal or informal education.  It could be a good introduction to the topic of climate change causes and consequences and the discussion of "how do we know" that climate change is occurring?

ASSESSMENT

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

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

The National Academies of Sciences