Part 1: Rooney-Varga explains that a holistic, systems thinking approach is necessary to understand human-caused climate change. Systems thinking concepts that are critical to climate change science include the accumulation of atmospheric stocks of greenhouse gases, feedback processes that amplify or dampen the impacts of climate change, abrupt nonlinear change, and the delayed impacts of today’s actions, such as emissions today that will influence the climate for millennia.
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Climate Change Education
Rooney-Varga explains that introducing simulation-based role-playing games to students is an effective and fun way to teach how decisions and actions taken today will impact climate change in the future. (Talk recorded in July 2014)
- Part 1: Climate Change, Biology and Systems Thinking Duration: 27:19
- Part 2: Let the Games Begin: Climate Change EducationAudience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 34:14