Posts Tagged ‘communication’
How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review or they don’t, and…
Read MoreThe counter-intuitive solution to getting people to care about climate change
Kamyar Razavi, Simon Fraser University In a May episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Bill Nye the Science Guy took a blowtorch to a miniature globe. It was an effort to startle Americans out of their complacency over climate change. Whether on late-night TV or the nightly news, alarm is a recurring feature…
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