Using the concepts and ideas learned in the Tutorials 1-9 of Lau and Chan (2017) (Links to an external site.), write a letter (your letter’s body should be an APA-formatted essay) to a public or business official who rejects the scientific consensus on an important issue. In this letter/essay, address the following questions:
How would you try to convince this person to examine the issue using the scientific method in order to come to clear and careful assessments?
Why would you argue for engaging scientific, peer-reviewed sources on the issue?
Requirements:
Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources.
Include at least one scholarly source that is not part of the required or recommended reading for this course. The CSU Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these scholarly sources.
The scientific methods are useful in examining the current impact of climate change on people and predictions of effects in the future. Since the public policy framework requires a comprehensive review of the social issues, scientists explore climate change in the context of other large challenges in the world. Climate science findings are thus instrumental in public policy’s influence to resolve different uncertainties (National Research Council of the National Academies, 2010). Both human societies and natural systems face serious risks from climate change. The scientific evidence on climate change’s impact is based on different population groups and advocates for immediate actions. Examining the scientific advances to improve the current understanding of actions taken to limit its magnitude or adaptation to the impacts is an extensive field providing key solutions.
