Quickly Increasing Anthropogenic Global Warming Acceptance: Five Experimentally-Vetted Methods and HowGlobalWarmingWorks.org

Webinar Recording & Slides

NGSS November 2018 Webinar Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 2.2MB Nov9 18)

Presenter: Michael Ranney, Ph.D., Professor of Education, UC Berkeley

Webinar Description

Professor Ranney and colleagues repeatedly showed that conservatives and liberals alike increase their acceptance that climate change is human-caused after viewing brief, highly-crafted, "bits" of scientific information (e.g., Ranney & Clark, 2016). These micro-curricula (i.e., mostly under six minutes) include compelling statistics, temperature graphs, inundation maps, and mechanism-explaining texts and videos (see the multi-language HowGlobalWarmingWorks.org for examples). Information about scientists' non-bias––and how global warming can be inexpensively inhibited––may prove similarly compelling. Ranney's research group's convincing interventions––perhaps even a haiku he wrote (Ranney, et al., 2016)––may even improve students'/parents' decisions about which policies and candidates to support.