[Making Sense of Climate Science Denial] Week 2 of Denial101x is open
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Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Welcome to Week 2 of Denial101x,
How often are you asked the question, “How’s the weather?” Probably quite often. It seems that we enjoy talking about the weather, don’t we? Depending upon where you are right now, it may be warming up as you enter spring, or it may be cooling as you enter winter, like we are here in Australia.
This week’s theme is temperature or, more precisely, the temperature record and how climate change affects weather. We’ll be working through some myths related to the temperature record as well as the jet stream and glaciers. This week includes lectures by Kevin Cowtan of the University of York, Keah Schuenemann of Metropolitan State University of Denver, Robert Way of the University of Ottawa and Peter Jacobs of George Mason University. We’re honoured to have them contribute to our course, and we value the expertise and energy they bring to each lecture! We’re especially happy to include a temperature tool developed by Kevin Cowtan that will allow you to interact with the global temperature record. You are encouraged to share your observations about this tool in this week’s wrap up forum. To get started, go to Courseware and click on Week 2.
During the first week of the course, the UQ Sustainability Club held a lunchtime screening and discussion of the first week of the course, and they plan to continue the activity throughout the duration of the course. You can see more about their event here. What a great idea! We encourage you to connect with others near you who might be interested in meeting up to discuss the course. And if you host an event connected to Denial101x, please let us know via Facebook or Twitter. We’d be happy to share those events with our followers.
Lastly we would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the map, our Facebook and Twitter feeds and the discussions on the forums. It’s been wonderful to hear from so many students in so many different locations. There is some real energy and depth present on the forums especially when it comes to identifying characteristics of denial. To aid you in your efforts, we’ve added some handy images to the course that you can embed within your forum posts when you are identifying Cherry Picking or Logical Fallacies. Information about how to add those images can be found within the forum itself in a new, pinned post. The forums have seen a lot of spirited discussion already, and we hope that this continues in the upcoming weeks. In order to keep the moderators from intervening too much in your discussions, we’d like to ask everyone to please take the time to (re)read the forum guidelines and heed them. We want this to be a respectful global classroom where learning can be achieved in a friendly setting.
We hope you enjoy and learn from Week 2!
--The Denial101x Team
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