The Techniques of Science Denial Part 3
8:21 | Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial.
The Techniques of Science Denial Part 2
8:17 | Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial.
The Techniques of Science Denial Part 1
7:31 | Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial.
Critical Thinking Cafe
3:12 | Video abstract for paper “Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors”.
Modern vs. past climate change
5:09 | Peter Jacobs explains all the human fingerprints that have convinced scientists that climate change today is being caused by humans.
Climate model success stories
5:51 | Climate models have consistently made successful predictions. Here Dana Nuccitelli shows us some examples of successful climate model predictions.
Daily and yearly cycle
3:36 | Dana Nuccitelli explains the pattern of contemporary global warming where night warm faster than days and winter warms faster than summers.
Human CO2 emissions trump volcanoes’
5:39 | Andy Skuce examines how CO2 emissions from human activity compare to CO2 emissions from volcanoes and finds humans release much more.
Upsetting the natural balance
5:51 | Gavin Cawley explains the global carbon cycle and how human activity is causing an increase of CO2 in our atmosphere.
Structure of an effective debunking
3:23 | John Cook introduces the “Fact-Myth-Fallacy” structure for debunking misinformation.
Sea Level Rise
4:30 | Keah Schuenemann explains how global warming is causing sea level rise through thermal expansion and melting of land ice.
Introduction to Denial (self-paced)
9:35 | Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial.
The Climate of Middle Earth – Part 3
7:31 | Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate?
Flu Shots
7:54 | John Cook explains the most effective way to debunk misinformation: fight sticky myths with even stickier facts and structure your debunking argument in three parts: fact, then myth, then fallacy.
Sticky Science
8:00 | Learn about one of the best methods for making your science sticky – the SUCCES method developed by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. We use this method to respond to climate change myths.
Inoculation Theory
5:55 | John Cook outlines how to stop science denial: by exposing people to weak forms of science denial.
Vocal minority
5:59 | John Cook explains the vocal minority using research from The Six Americas report and from the article, “Your opinion on climate change might not be as common as you think,”
Worldview backfire effect
9:39 | John Cook explains the wordview backfire effect using examples from recent history and research. He also talks about ways in which we might combat this phenomenon when it comes to discussions of climate change.
The Climate of Middle Earth – Part 2
8:27 | Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate?
Climate is Sensitive
5:42 | Dana Nuccitelli examines climate sensitivity i.e. the amount of global warming expected from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Agricultural impacts
2:56 | How could increased CO2 affect our crops? Although CO2 is important to plants, changes in other conditions such as water, nutrients, and pests are likely to mean that more CO2 will not mean better crops.
Polar bears
5:13 | Dana Nuccitelli explains how global warming affects polar bears through its effect on melting sea ice. Different types of sea ice melting mean different impacts.
Adaptation takes time
4:55 | Dana Nuccitelli examines whether species can adapt quickly enough to survive rapid climate change. Five mass extinctions in the Earth’s past indicate there are limits to how much species’ abilities.
Water vapor amplifies warming
5:27 | Keah Schuenemann’s lecture explains how carbon dioxide affects water vapor in our atmosphere and also how the two greenhouse gases interact to form a positive feedback loop.
Extreme weather
5:38 | Keah Schuenemann explains why global warming makes many types of extreme weather more likely. However, it is virtually impossible to say if a specific storm, heat wave, or other event was caused by global warming.
Ocean acidification
11:01 | Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg explains the threat that increased CO2 poses to marine organisms as it dissolves into the ocean.
Heat waves
4:56 | Keah Schuenemann explains why heat waves are happening more often and how those heat waves are impacting our environment.
The role of clouds in climate change
5:51 | Peter Jacobs talks about one of the more complicated questions in climate science: how will clouds change in a changing climate?
Overall impacts
4:46 | Dana Nuccitelli looks at a number of ways that climate change will impact society, and how those impacts worsen with more global warming.
Methane clathrate feedback
7:18 | Andy Skuce discusses a myth that exaggerates the potential risk from methane clathrate feedback.
Hurricanes
7:00 | How will hurricanes be affected by climate change?
Making sense of the slowdown
6:39 | Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate?
Carbon dioxide is a pollutant
3:10 | A common misunderstanding is thinking that CO2 cannot be a pollutant because CO2 isn’t toxic and it is found naturally in the atmosphere. Sara Green explains that CO2 IS a pollutant because of its effects on the environment.
The Climate of Middle Earth – Part 1
8:07 | Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate?
The Little Ice Age
5:42 | In this lecture, Andy Skuce explains what the so-called “little ice age” was and what caused it. Most importantly, natural factors coming out of the little ice age cannot explain our current global warming.
Confused decline
5:26 | Peter Jacobs explains climate proxies, which estimate temperatures in the Earth’s past. In particular, he looks at the divergence problem, where some tree-ring proxies diverge from recent instrumental measurements.
Medieval warm period
5:47 | Robert Way examines the Medieval Warm Period and how it compares to today’s temperatures.
Future Ice Age
4:54 | Dana Nuccitelli looks at what caused ice ages in the past and explains why we don’t expect them to occur in the foreseeable future.
Climate science in the 1970s
5:56 | What were climate scientists thinking and publishing in the 1970s, before there was empirical evidence that the globe was warming? Daniel Bedford explains.
Principles that models are built on
4:43 | Dana Nuccitelli explains the principles that climate models are built on: fundamental physical laws. No one can know the future for certain, but these models allow us to make educated decisions looking forward.
Tendency to underestimate climate impacts
5:39 | Keah Schuenemann explains the role of the IPCC and their tendency to underestimate climate impacts.
Weather vs climate
6:23 | Keah Schuenemann explains the differences between weather models and climate models.
Ancient CO2 levels
5:48 | Observing the effects of ancient CO2 levels and their correlation to ancient climate change can inform us what to expect today.
The greenhouse effect
4:32 | Mark Richardson takes us to the Reading University Atmospheric Observatory to explain how the greenhouse effect works. He concludes by busting the myth that the greenhouse effect violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Taking up residence
5:15 | Gavin Cawley explains the carbon cycle, how human activity is causing an increase of CO2 in our atmosphere, and uses bank accounts to show how we can know humans are increasing atmospheric CO2.
Reinforcing feedback
5:33 | Ice core records tell us global warming causes the ocean to emit more CO2. More atmospheric CO2 in-turn traps more heat, making this is a reinforcing feedback loop.
Increasing greenhouse effect
4:09 | Mark Richardson examines how greenhouse gases intensify the greenhouse effect and busts the myth that our atmosphere is “saturated.”
Measuring from space
4:24 | Sarah Green explains how satellites monitor outgoing radiation to measure global warming. She concludes by busting the myth that CO2 must be unimportant in our atmosphere because it is only a trace gas.