Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future

Lecture 4 – Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?

by Naomi Oreskes, PhD

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1. Start of Lecture Four
2. Profile of Dr. Naomi Oreskes
3. Why climate change matters
4. Video: Protect Our Winters
5. Science, politics, and the acknowledgement of rising CO2
6. Many Americans remain unconvinced of climate change
7. Providing knowledge does not always lead people to act
8. The origins of organized denialism
9. The history of the Marshall Institute
10. Government regulation as protection against harmful activities
11. Think tanks and scientific denialism
12. Denial of science because of its implications
13. Q&A: Should scientists create public policy?
14. Q&A: How is science communicated effectively to the public?
15. How can the certainty of science be judged?
16. Climate science is based on reliable methods
17. Climate science and the deductive method
18. Science is falsifiable
19. The claim that volcanoes cause rising CO2 is false
20. The process of peer review and the IPCC
21. How well do climate models perform?
22. Climate extremes in North America: September 2012
23. Scientific consensus exists for anthropogenic climate change
24. The science is settled: Time to focus on what we should do
25. Q&A: Is regulation up to the government or us?
26. Q&A: Which is correct, "global climate change" or "global warming"?
27. Q&A: How should data be made more accesible?
28. Q&A: How do we consider the economic costs of regulation?
29. Credits

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