Stanford research shows that some California science textbooks by major publishers portray climate change as a debate over different opinions rather than as scientific fact.
Major California science textbooks may be misrepresenting the science behind climate change as much weaker than it actually is, new Stanford research shows.
In doing so, the textbooks more closely reflect the public debate about climate change rather than the scientific reality, according to the paper, which was published in the Environmental Education Research journal.
Co-author K.C. Busch is a doctoral candidate in science education at Stanford Graduate School of Education and a 2015 SIGF Fellow. Co-author Diego Román is an assistant professor of education at Southern Methodist University, Dallas and a 2010 SIGF Fellow.
