Climate change

Hello, 

Here you are the video on climate change we could not watch in class and the gap filling activity. Subtitles are provided. 

Remember to skip ahead in the video to 04:11 and keep listening up to 5:36 in order to do the activity. 

What can we do to break this ____1____? The number one thing we can do is the exact thing that we’re not doing: talk about it. But you might say, “I’m not a _____2_____. How am I supposed to talk about radiative forcing or cloud parametrization in climate models?” We don’t need to be talking about more science; we’ve been talking about the science for _____3_____. Did you know that it’s been 150 years or more since the ___4___, when climate scientists first discovered that digging up and burning coal and gas and oil is producing heat-trapping gases that is wrapping an extra blanket around the _____5_____? That’s how long we’ve known. It’s been 50 years since scientists first ______6_____ a US president of the dangers of a changing climate, and that president was Lyndon B. Johnson. And what’s more, the social science has taught us that if people have built their ____7_____on rejecting a certain set of facts, then arguing over those facts is a personal attack. It causes them to dig in deeper, and it digs a trench, rather than ______8_____.

Answer key: 1. vicious cycle 2. scientist 3. over 150 years 4. 1850s 5. planet  6. formally warned 7. identity 8. building a bridge