Due: 26th April
Next lecture, you are going to engage in the first role-play. The question of that role-play is: “How certain are we that the global average near-surface air temperature has increased since 1850?”
The contributing roles are:
- mainstream climate scientist
- climate skeptic
- journalist
- politician.
Please prepare for the role-play as described below:
- Define your role more concretely (e.g. science journalists vs. tabloid journalists) and prepare a sign stating your definition. Bring this to the role-play on 26th April.
- Prepare the arguments for your role in the role-play regarding the question (make sure to understand your role’s position to the question, institutional settings and so on…) in your role-group.
- Decide upon the tasks: main speaker (stating main points, …) and blogger (writing down notes, observing the discussion…) (the blog post is part of next week’s homework). Keep in mind that all of you should contribute to the discussion and also take notes.
- Go through the ‘Guidelines for discussion’.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by 24th April.