Exposing Denial

From the experts: Scientific consensus

Commentary from Dr Ben Santer, Professor Naomi Oreskes and Professor Peter Doran on the topic of scientific consensus and climate change.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: From the experts: Scientific consensus, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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