Denial101x: Making Sense of Climate Science Denial MOOC

Sign up for the free online course I've been working on all semester, it starts April 28!  Join thousands of people (13,000 and counting) from over 150 different countries and enjoy the videos and activities the skepticalscience.com team and I have been working on for you through EdX!

 "Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial."

Course link:  https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-climate-science-denial-uqx-denial101x

Follow us on Twitter at @denial101x and Facebook.  Check out some of our released videos here:  http://wn.com/denial101x.

Check out some of the press we've gotten:

• Newsweek
• Full list of press:  http://skepticalscience.com/republishers.php?a=Denial101x
• CBS4 Denver, by Chris Spears (Chris is one of our meteorology professors and CBS4 meteorology producer!)
• Climate Progress (I'm quoted in this one.)
• The Independent
• Salon:  http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/im_going_to_climate_denial_school_my_first_week_inside_the_science_of_anti_science/ 
• The Guardian:  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/21/university-offering-free-online-course-to-demolish-climate-denial?CMP=share_btn_tw
• Slate, by Phil Plait!  http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/04/28/climate_change_an_online_course_to_teach_reality.html
• Taking Back Skepticism in the Skeptical Inquirer:  http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/taking_back_skepticism
• An Online University Course on the Science of Climate Science Denial on the Real Climate Blog:  http://www.realclimate.org/
• The Conversation:  http://theconversation.com/inoculating-against-science-denial-40465
• On Earth, the magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council:  http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/climate-change-denial-101
• 350 Colorado:  http://350colorado.org/blog/
• Desmog Blog:  http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/28/more-10000-enroll-free-university-course-debunk-climate-science-denial
• University of Queensland:  http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/04/university-myth-bust%E2%80%99-climate-change-fallacies
• University of York:  http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2015/research/climate-myth-busting-course/
• Metropolitan State University of Denver Press release:  http://www.msudenver.edu/newsroom/pressreleases/2015/04-22-2015.shtml
• University of East Anglia press release:  https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/uea-teams-up-with-universities-to-myth-bust-climate-change-fallacies
• A blip in the Daily Kos:  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/25/1379561/-This-week-in-science-she-s-a-witch

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Here are my videos that have been released:

Screen captures from some of my lectures in the MOOC.

I've had several people ask me if I get paid to do this MOOC.  Absolutely not!  I am a professor and that is my only source of income.  As a professor I'm required to teach 12 credits a semester, do department, school, university, and community service, develop professionally, and publish peer reviewed literature.  This MOOC falls under community service.  In other words, I worked on the MOOC mainly on my weekends.  So why do I do it?  I teach a maximum of 120 students a semester and this was an opportunity to reach more people.  The reason I've been trying so hard to advertise the course is because we put so much work into it, we'd love to see it reach as many people as possible!  Science literacy is a passion of mine and I'd do anything to live in a world where decisions are made based on critical thinking and evidence.

Update:  All youtube videos are located on the denial101x youtube channel.  Please use them in your teaching, or share with your friends!

We're offering a self-paced version of the course starting July 1st.