Climate Change Summits for Teens
By Janice McDonnell, Laura Bovitz, Carrie Ferraro, Rachel Lyons, and David Robinson
The impacts of human -induced global warming on the natural environment are drastically affecting, and will continue to drastically affect, every aspect of our economy and our daily lives. We now have a fundamental scientific understanding of global warming, and nearly universal acceptance in the scientific community that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are affecting global climate and ocean properties (IPCC, 2007). Despite this, much of the general public is becoming more confused and less concerned about global warming amidst a barrage of frightening (and sometimes conflicting) data, and media spin. Public comprehension and acceptance of the authenticity of global warming is woefully lacking, hovering around 50% (Leiserowitz et al., 2009).
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