Exposing Denial

Tendency to underestimate climate impacts

Keah Schuenemann explains the role of the IPCC and their tendency to underestimate climate impacts.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Tendency to underestimate climate impacts, 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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