Defending Climate Science: Applying Lessons From Creationist Attacks on Evolution
Abstract
Although climate science faces many obstacles—a lack of teacher training, inadequate state science standards, the difficulty of finding a place for such a multidisciplinary science in traditional subjects—it is the well-funded and organized assault on climate science that perhaps presents the greatest challenge for climate literacy. Attacks on climate science often follow the same set of tactics developed over many decades by creationist forces in their long campaign against evolution. This talk focuses on recognizing these tactics, and suggests ways to counter them in order to promote climate literacy and an understanding of the nature of science.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AGUFMED12A..04N
- Keywords:
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- 0800 EDUCATION;
- 0825 EDUCATION / Teaching methods