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Rebane, Kaja L.

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From Ozone Depletion to Natural Cycles: Conceptions of "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" Among University Students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From Ozone Depletion to Natural Cycles: Conceptions of "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" Among University Students./
Author:	Rebane, Kaja L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	304 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04B(E).
Subject:	Climate change. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10690040
ISBN:	9780355548877

From Ozone Depletion to Natural Cycles: Conceptions of "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" Among University Students.
Rebane, Kaja L.

From Ozone Depletion to Natural Cycles: Conceptions of "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" Among University Students. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 304 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

Communicating effectively about global climatic change can be difficult when expert and non-expert conceptions of the issue diverge. This mixed-methods study examines lay conceptions at a major Midwestern research university using interviews and a survey of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

ISBN: 9780355548877Subjects--Topical Terms:

2079509
Climate change.

From Ozone Depletion to Natural Cycles: Conceptions of "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" Among University Students.
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520 $a In Chapter 2 I examine participants' ideas about whether global climatic change is happening, the scientific consensus, their own knowledge, and the problem's causes, likely effects, and appropriate mitigation actions. The results show that students' mental models only partially align with those of experts. Of various personal characteristics political ideology most strongly predicts response patterns, and the term "global warming" tends to be more politically polarizing than "climate change". While self-assessed knowledge predicts endorsement of scientific facts, it is a poor indicator of students' ability to identify bogus claims.
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520 $a I consider how young people learn to conflate global climatic change with stratospheric ozone depletion in Chapter 4. Such confusion is nearly universal among the participants and linked to endorsement of ineffective mitigation measures. Formal education, particularly before but also during college, appears to play a key role in transmitting these ideas to new generations. Chapter 5 provides a synthesis. I discuss the findings most relevant to public communicators, educators, and investigators, and identify topics in need of further research. I also consider the conceptual metaphors that structure lay understanding of global climatic change and ozone depletion, and suggest a modification to reduce their conflation.
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