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America's Climate Choices: Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovo-qByx9JQ&feature=youtu.be

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A video that discusses the perspectives and insights necessary to report out about climate change. The video can be used to demonstrate how different perspectives impact different stakeholders and different levels, and that there is a need to have a clear, coordinated national response.

Video length 9:53 minutes.

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Teaching Tips

  • Students could be asked to write a "Personal Perspective" paper in response to the video
  • Could use at an intersection of a climate science lesson and social science considerations.

About the Content

  • A video summarizing the National Resource Council's report "America's Climate Choices: Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change". Report was published in 2010: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12784
  • Comments from expert scientist: This has been a well assembled and highly impactful project.

About the Pedagogy

  • The entire report is available for download to accompany the video, called "Informing Effective Decisions Related to Climate Change," sponsored by the NOAA in preparation to Congress.

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Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change Report in Brief - The National Academy of Sciences
Entered the Collection: January 2012 Last Reviewed: December 2016

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