Misconceptions & Reasoning
📋 What it is
Test "obvious" climate ideas against evidence — many popular climate beliefs are half-truths.
🗣️ Coach says
Climate has many feels-right-but-wrong ideas: "it’s cold today so there’s no warming" (that confuses weather with climate), "the ozone hole causes climate change" (different problem), and "climate always changed, so this is natural" (true it changes, but the SPEED and cause now are different). Reason from the evidence.
🧠 Memory hook
Feels-true ≠ is-true. A cold day ≠ no warming; ozone ≠ climate; "always changed" ignores the SPEED.
😂 Giggle
Why did the ice cap go to the doctor?
It was feeling a little thin!
😲 Whoa!
Climate and the ozone hole are two different problems — the ozone layer is actually healing thanks to a 1987 treaty, a rare global-cooperation success story.
✅ Quick check: Someone says "it snowed, so global warming isn’t real." What reasoning error is that?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Confusing weather with climate — one cold day is weather; climate is the decades-long average trend.
A single weather event can’t disprove a long-term climate trend.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Find one climate claim online and ask: is this about weather or climate? What evidence backs it?