Lesson 12: Enviromental Science and Climate Change

This lesson covers the rise of environmental science in the twentieth century and the problem of climate change and climate change denial in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  We will also give attention to a specific environmental issue of particular local interest: fracking.

 

Demonstrators outside the Norman City Hall before a city council committee met to discuss changes to oil and gas drilling rules. Links to an external site.

Readings:

1) Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt (New York, 2010), ch. 6. "The Denial of Global Warming"

2) 6 short articles on fracking

Learning Activities:

1) Video: The Ethics of Fracking

2) 3 video clips from "An Inconvenient Truth"

Assignments:

1) Quiz

2) Small group discussion - Fracking in Oklahoma

3) Class forum - Global Warming