About 30% of teachers about climate change teach things wrong


ByTim J Keegan

Currently, 95% of scientists agree with the idea that "the cause of climate change on the earth is human activity", but as a result of random research targeting thousands of teachers in the United States, About 30% of science teachers have explained that climate change is explained by natural factors.

30 percent of science teachers give misinformation about climate change | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/30-percent-of-science-teachers-give-misinformation-about-climate-change/

ScienceAccording to research published in the journal, in addition to the above facts, 12% of scientific teachers also know that human beings are not emphasizing the possibility of being related to climate change, It turned out that educational content had unevenness. 30% of the middle school (secondary education) teachers correctly answered that "the proportion of scientists who believe that climate change is caused by humans" is "81 - 100%" is high school 45% of the teachers of the high school).

ByCybrarian77

In recent years, many scientists believe that the processes industrialized by humans and agriculture are the cause of climate change. Nonetheless, some people think that many teachers do not teach that "the cause of climate change is humanity" is that they must teach that there is a theory that they are caused by natural factors, " There are also sex, but many teachers simply are seen as "not knowing about recent research".

In addition, the average science teacher spends only about one to two hours of education time on climate change, and although today's climate change problem is a very important topic, graduation from high school Students are only getting knowledge of about one hour of global climate change. Ars Technica points out that there is a possibility that the state without solid knowledge even a teacher may be interfering with the next generation's understanding of what is going on on the earth.

ByEugenia Loli

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