Free online course: Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

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Free Online Course Starts January 9th: Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

This massive open online course (MOOC) is offered by edX, a MOOC provider founded by Harvard University and MIT. Course material is primarily delivered via short videos. This MOOC focuses on climate change communication and includes forums for online conversations with fellow learners and course moderators.

Course Title: Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

What You'll Learn:

  • How to recognise the social and psychological drivers of climate science denial
  • How to better understand climate change: the evidence that it is happening, that humans are causing it and the potential impacts
  • How to identify the techniques and fallacies that climate myths employ to distort climate science
  • How to effectively debunk climate misinformation

Price: Free. (Certificates are available for a fee.)

Dates: 7 weeks starting on January 9, 2018

Level: Introductory

Effort: 2-4 hours a week

For more information and to register, click here.