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Climate change:
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Concerns
Over the past few decades, more and more people have come to believe that climate change is real and is causing harm to the environments and living things on Earth. However, their are a significant number of deniers and dismissers, and of those that do believe climate change is happening, many are unsure of how it happening and what the actual causes are.
Student Misunderstandings:
"In Education Week’s survey, 79 percent of high school students said that climate change is happening, and that it’s primarily caused by human activity. While they have that fact down, students are less certain on the mechanics of climate change.
Forty-six percent of teenagers said in EdWeek’s survey that the hole in the ozone layer created by gases from spray cans and refrigerators is a significant contributor to global warming. More than a quarter of students said that solar flares and increased radiation from the sun have been a major driver of global warming since the 1800s, and nearly 1 in 5 said that volcanoes are a major source of the greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. All three statements are false."
Lots of interactive graphs and charts showing recent opinions from around the world.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/opinions-young-people-climate
Find out what the people around the world think about climate change.
This article reports on a survey of 1,943 young people aged 15–19 years living in Australia.
Use the CCAM Explorer, an interactive data visualization tool created by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications
Related article that references the chart above.
Study from which the data came.
We’d love to hear how you used this tool in your community, how the students responded, and your suggestions to improve the experiments and other resources. Contact us at ccsae@mit.edu.
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