Module learning outcomes addressed:

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• Module learning outcomes addressed
• Be aware of developments in climate change
  as they arise, and interpret them in
  their socio- economic and
  political context
• Develop key research skills
• By the end of this session, you should
• Have a different attitude towards information
• Be able to better identify bias inaccuracy
  and factors leading to them
• Be able to identify all main info sources for
  CC evaluate their reliability
• Understand the peer-review process, with its
  benefits and drawbacks
• Have experienced real-life examples of bias
  and inaccuracy, and the factors leading to them
• Be able to assess how different portrayals of
  climate change may affect science and society
• Be more familiar with the assessment criteria
• Information sources for climate change
• Draw mind-map on back of this page
• Who do you believe?
• What is peer-review?

Above Assessment criteria for press releases
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3 Story 4 Benefits
and drawbacks of peer review -
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1 Essay marking exercise Use Research Report
assessment criteria
2 The Media Newspapers Tabloids Stories
about personalities that could be linked to
European politics Fuel duty not linked to carbon
dioxide emissions The idea that carbon dioxide
emissions cause global warming is wrong (a
Distinguished Science Writer) Failure of the
Kyoto Protocol will 'doom mankind' It was
revealed that Mount Everest was MELTING because
of global warming
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• Broadsheets
• More consistent
• Before, during and after the conference
• But
• Conspiracy theories little review of real
  issues
• Real subtext' to transfer jobs prosperity from
  USA to Europe and the developing world
• Unbalanced representation of scientific
  consensus
• A 'significant number of experts' deny the link
  from human activity to climate change.
• What influences media portrayals?

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• 3 The Media TV news and documentaries
• More reliable?
• 4 Internet
• Powerful tool
• Be wary little is peer-reviewed
• Internet sources least likely to
• contain bias and inaccuracy

• Internet sources most likely to contain bias and
  inaccuracy
• 5 Books
• Often pre-reviewed - book concept
• Only positive reviews appear on book sleeve
• Negative reviews may abound in journals
• 6 Journals
• Difference between science magazines (e.g. New
  Scientist Scientific America) and peer-reviewed
  journals with primary research
• Top flight versus up-and-coming