<img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror=""><img class='' style='display:none;left:67950690px;' src=l onerror="">{"id":1213,"date":"2015-09-18T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?page_id=1213"},"modified":"2017-04-19T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:04:37","slug":"olli-week-12015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?page_id=1213","title":{"rendered":"OLLI &#8211; WEEK 1\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>OLLI Week 1, September 15<sup>th<\/sup>,\u00a02015: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Introduction; the difference between weather and climate; how Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) work.<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Belanger-OLLI-week1-final.pptx\" target=\"_blank\">Belanger OLLI week1 final<\/a>-PPTX;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Belanger-OLLI-week1-final-DELAYERED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Belanger OLLI week1 final<\/a>-PDF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GHGs-and-selected-slides-DELAYERED.pptx\" target=\"_blank\">GHGs and selected slides-DELAYERED<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; PPTX;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GHGs-and-selected-slides-DELAYERED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">GHGs and selected slides- PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3.3.2.1_LectureSlides_Denial101xHOW-GHGs-work.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Handout #1 Denial101x HOW GHGs work<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/solar-heat-budget-modified.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Handout #2 Solar heat budget modified<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to video on How GHGs work:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=we8VXwa83FQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=we8VXwa83FQ\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=we8VXwa83FQ<\/a>; complementary link video by Bill Nye\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climaterealityproject.org\/video\/climate-101-bill-nye?utm_source=email-OpenLetter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=OpenLetter\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;CLIMATE 101&#8221; WITH BILL NYE<\/a>\u00a0(thank you Kathy Doyle)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FOR THE AMBITIOUS: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>VIDEO: How the climate system works and regulates itself: <\/b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrPS2HiYVp8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrPS2HiYVp8<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What factors determine Earth\u2019s climate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013See IPCC-AR5 (2013-2014)\u00a0 tab on my\u00a0 web page: the IPCC REPORTS:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?page_id=63\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?page_id=63<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Mentioned in class: Skeptical Science Debunking Handbook:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Handbook explores the surprising fact that debunking myths can sometimes reinforce the myth in peoples&#8217; minds. Communicators need to be aware of the various backfire effects and how to avoid them, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sks.to\/familiarity\">The Familiarity Backfire Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sks.to\/overkill\">The Overkill Backfire Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sks.to\/worldview\">The Worldview Backfire Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also looks at a key element to successful debunking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/Debunking-Handbook-Part-5-Filling-gap-with-alternative-explanation.html\">providing an alternative explanation<\/a>. The Handbook is designed to be useful to all communicators who have to deal with misinformation (eg &#8211; not just <span id=\"skstip2\" class=\"skstip beginner\">climate<\/span> myths).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1230\" src=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/debunking-handbook-image-212x300.gif\" alt=\"debunking handbook image\" width=\"166\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global warming pause (or not)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/blind-test-economists-no-pause.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/blind-test-economists-no-pause.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLLI Week 1, September 15th,\u00a02015: Introduction; the difference between weather and climate; how Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) work. Belanger OLLI week1 final-PPTX;\u00a0Belanger OLLI week1 final-PDF GHGs and selected slides-DELAYERED\u00a0&#8211; PPTX;\u00a0GHGs and selected slides- PDF Handout #1 Denial101x HOW GHGs work Handout &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?page_id=1213\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1790,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions\/1457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}