Understanding and discussing adverse positions on Climate Change

Climate Change is a very controversial domain in which different political, ethical and scientific positions confront in the attempt to understand the "very" nature of climate change phenomena and its implication.

As starting point an example map has been built from the article that the BBC journalist Richard Black wrote on climate skeptics.

     What do “climate sceptics” believe?

Richard Black writes: “ Despite having reported on climate change for more than a decade, I realised at the beginning of the year that I was not entirely sure. [...] So I decided I had better try to find out.”

The result was a summary of the “Top 10” arguments, and possible responses, which we have re-rendered in the Cohere knowledge mapping tool, to make clearer than prose can show what are the key relationships (supporting or challenging) between the different claims in the debate. (Once you’re logged in, you can then add new connections to support/challenge or link to new web resources backing a given contribution.)

Here you find the Cohere map.

One of the ESSENCE team is specifically facing this challange by testing a new theory to moderate online debate on climate change issues. This is called the team: Theory Mapping method for climate-change debate facilitation