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ABI - Climate change as a global challenge

Einleitung

Mini-description: Explore scientific explainers, statistics and different policy approaches to climate change. Learn to separate scientific findings from political evaluation, analyse sources and visuals, and communicate your own evidence-based judgement in English.

Course profile: Englisch als fortgeführte Fremdsprache, Kursstufe Baden-Württemberg, gemeinsamer BF-/LF-Kurs. English first: use context, word formation, visuals, English explanations and a dictionary before German help. Target: B2, partly C1 as a learning orientation — without artificial difficulty.

Media entry — Observe, infer, question: Look at the NASA visualisation. First describe only what you can see. Then infer a possible trend. Finally formulate two questions you would need to answer before making a causal claim.

Viewing prompt: While watching the IPCC synthesis video, note one statement about causes, one about impacts and one about responses. Mark each as evidence, interpretation or policy choice.

Course compass: I-can goals

Skill	I can ...	Evidence of learning
Science literacy	explain the natural greenhouse effect and the human-driven enhancement without confusing weather and climate.	a 90-second scientific explainer
Data literacy	read axes, baselines, units, uncertainty and trends in climate statistics.	a claim-evidence-limit note
Source literacy	distinguish an observed finding, a model-based projection, an attributed claim and a political judgement.	an annotated source comparison
Reading	outline and analyse non-fiction texts from scientific and institutional sources.	a structured analysis paragraph
Listening / Viewing	extract main ideas, evidence and communicative strategies from authentic media.	listening notes and a short synthesis
Speaking	discuss policy approaches using criteria without presenting preference as scientific fact.	mini-briefing and discussion
Writing	produce a coherent article, comment, letter or speech manuscript with source-based reasoning.	an Abi-style writing task
Mediation	convey selected German information appropriately in English instead of translating word for word.	a short mediation product

Prüfungs- und Bildungsplancheck Baden-Württemberg

Stand: 3 October 2026. Der Bildungsplan Englisch unterscheidet in der Kursstufe Basisfach und Leistungsfach nach Komplexität und Abstraktion der Texte sowie Breite, Tiefe und Differenziertheit der Bearbeitung. Für beide wird am Ende der Kursstufe B2, in Teilen C1, als Zielniveau genannt. Amtlicher Bildungsplan Englisch

Der veröffentlichte Facherlass Abitur 2028 nennt für Englisch als Schwerpunktthema On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters. Der Titel dieses Kurses, Climate change as a global challenge, ist damit für 2028 nicht selbst das ausgewiesene Schwerpunktthema. Der Kurs trainiert jedoch zentrale fachliche Kompetenzen mit nicht-literarischen Texten, Hör-/Sehmaterialien, Statistiken und argumentativem Schreiben. Für Dein konkretes Prüfungsjahr sind immer der aktuelle Facherlass und die Hinweise Deiner Schule maßgeblich. Amtlicher Facherlass 2028 Abitur-Übersicht des Kultusministeriums

Für das Leistungsfach 2028 weist der Facherlass unter anderem Hörverstehen sowie einen Schreibteil mit Leseverstehen, Analyse und persönlicher Stellungnahme beziehungsweise gestaltender Schreibaufgabe aus; auch Bilder, Statistiken, Diagramme und andere diskontinuierliche Texte können einbezogen werden. Im Basisfach sollen über die Kursstufe unter anderem Hörverstehen, Leseverstehen, Analyse, Sprachmittlung und unterschiedliche Schreibaufgaben abgedeckt werden. Dieser aiMOOC nutzt genau diese Kompetenzachsen, ohne eine amtliche Prüfungsaufgabe zu imitieren.

Vorwissen aktivieren

Do this before using a dictionary.

Climate vs weather: Explain the difference in two sentences and add one example.
Evidence check: What would convince you that a temperature trend is global rather than local?
Statistics check: What do baseline, anomaly and uncertainty probably mean in a climate graph?
Policy check: Name one question science can investigate about a policy and one question that depends partly on values or priorities.

Self-diagnosis: Green = I can explain it precisely; amber = I can recognise it but need language support; red = I need an example first.

Science core: what the evidence says

Greenhouse effect: mechanism before opinion

The natural greenhouse effect is part of Earth's energy balance. Greenhouse gases absorb and re-emit infrared radiation. Human activities increase concentrations of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, strengthening the warming influence.

Quick task: Use the visual and the NASA explainer to create a five-arrow causal chain. Then replace any vague verb such as affects with a more precise verb: absorbs, re-emits, increases, reduces or warms.

Source check: NASA's short video is an accessible introduction, not a complete climate model. Verify the core mechanism with a scientific assessment source before using it in an extended argument.

Attribution: from correlation to causal evidence

The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report states that human activities, principally through greenhouse-gas emissions, have unequivocally caused global warming. It reports global surface temperature at about 1.1 °C above 1850–1900 for 2011–2020. IPCC AR6 headline statements

Attribution asks what caused an observed change. Scientists compare observations with physical understanding, multiple datasets and model experiments that include different drivers. A graph showing two lines rising together is not, by itself, enough to establish causation.

Current indicators: read the date and baseline

The WMO's State of the Global Climate 2025 reports that 2015–2025 were the hottest eleven years in the observational record and estimates the global mean near-surface temperature for 2025 at about 1.43 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850–1900 average. A separate WMO consolidated analysis gives 1.44 ± 0.13 °C because of dataset and reporting differences. Treat such small differences as a reason to check methods, not as a contradiction. WMO State of the Global Climate 2025

Data prompt: Identify the reference period, colour scale, spatial pattern and one limitation of a single-year anomaly map.

Oceans and ice: independent lines of evidence

Read the graph: Describe the long-term direction without using the word dramatic. Then explain why a trend statement should include the time span and measurement source.

Visual source task: Separate what the satellite image directly shows from what needs background knowledge. A glacier image can document change at one location; it does not by itself establish the global cause.

Compare: What is gained by using repeated satellite observations? What remains uncertain if you only see two dates?

Science and policy: keep the layers separate

Statement	Type	What would support it?
Human greenhouse-gas emissions are a principal cause of recent global warming.	Scientific finding	physical mechanisms, observations, attribution studies, assessment literature
Global mean temperature in a particular year is measured relative to a stated baseline.	Empirical measurement	dataset, method, uncertainty range, baseline
A carbon tax changes the price signal attached to emissions.	Policy mechanism	legal design and economic mechanism
A specific carbon price is fair.	Political / normative evaluation	explicit fairness criteria, distributional evidence and value judgement
A regulation reduced emissions in a defined sector over a defined period.	Empirical policy-effect claim	counterfactual method, sector data, time period and confounders
Governments should prioritise one policy over another.	Political choice	evidence plus openly stated priorities, constraints and values

Key rule: Science can investigate mechanisms, risks, costs, effects and uncertainties. It does not by itself determine how societies ought to distribute costs, choose priorities or balance competing values.

Listening and Viewing Lab

Viewing 1: NASA — build the mechanism

Use the NASA greenhouse-effect video above.

Before viewing: Predict five key words.

During viewing: Note one cause-and-effect sequence and two examples.

After viewing: Rewrite the explanation for a 16-year-old audience in 80–100 words. Add one sentence stating what the short explainer leaves out.

BF support: Use the frame: When ..., more/less ...; this means that ...

LF extension: Add the concepts radiative balance, feedback and attribution only where you can define them accurately.

Viewing 2: IPCC — synthesis and evidence

Use the IPCC AR6 video from the introduction.

Task: Create three columns: physical science, impacts/adaptation, mitigation. Place each major idea in one column, then identify one connection between the columns.

LF synthesis: Compare the video's communicative purpose with the IPCC headline statements. Analyse selection, compression and audience design.

Viewing 3: WMO / UN — evidence and rhetoric

This WMO-hosted video contains a message by the UN Secretary-General connected to the State of the Global Climate 2025 report. Treat it as a public communication text, not as a substitute for the underlying scientific report.

Media analysis: Identify one factual reference, one evaluative phrase and one call for action. Explain why these belong to different analytical categories.

Reading Lab

Reading A: IPCC headline statements

Open only the relevant sections of the IPCC AR6 headline statements. Do not copy long passages.

BF route: Select two short findings. Paraphrase each in your own English and underline the evidence word that signals confidence or certainty.

LF route: Link one finding on causes, one on impacts and one on responses. Explain how the report moves from observed evidence to risk assessment without turning policy preferences into scientific facts.

Reading B: WMO State of the Global Climate 2025

Use the WMO report page and select one indicator: temperature, ocean heat, greenhouse gases, sea ice or sea level.

Create a CER note:

Claim	Evidence	Reasoning	Limit
One precise sentence	One statistic or observation with date and unit	Explain how the evidence supports the claim	State baseline, uncertainty, scope or missing information

Data Lab: statistics without spin

First describe, then interpret. Avoid moral labels in the description.

Describe: Identify axes, unit, period and major regional changes.
Contextualise: Distinguish annual emissions from cumulative historical emissions and from per-capita emissions.
Interrogate: What additional data would you need before making a claim about responsibility or fairness?
Communicate: Write a 70-word neutral caption that a newspaper could publish next to the graph.

Error trap: A statement can be numerically correct yet misleading if it hides the denominator, baseline, period or category.

Context vocabulary and word formation

Word family	English explanation	Context example	German help only if needed
emit – emission – emitter	to release a substance; the released amount; the source that releases it	Annual emissions are not the same as cumulative emissions.	ausstoßen – Emission – Emittent
attribute – attribution	to identify and estimate causes of an observed change	Attribution research tests competing drivers.	zuschreiben – Ursachenzuordnung
mitigate – mitigation	to reduce the severity or scale of a problem	Mitigation aims to limit future climate change.	mindern – Minderung
adapt – adaptation – adaptive	to adjust systems or behaviour to actual or expected conditions	Adaptation can reduce exposure or vulnerability.	anpassen – Anpassung
resilient – resilience	able to cope with disruption and recover	Resilience depends on infrastructure and social capacity.	widerstandsfähig – Resilienz
regulate – regulation – regulatory	to set binding rules or standards	Regulatory instruments can set efficiency standards.	regulieren – Regulierung
implement – implementation	to put a decision or plan into practice	Implementation determines how a policy works in reality.	umsetzen – Umsetzung
project – projection	to estimate a possible future under stated assumptions	A projection is not a prediction without conditions.	projizieren – Projektion
equitable – equity	concerned with fairness in distribution, opportunity or burden	Equity criteria must be stated, not assumed.	gerecht – Gerechtigkeit
uncertain – uncertainty	limited precision or knowledge that can often be quantified or described	Uncertainty does not mean complete ignorance.	unsicher – Unsicherheit

Dictionary routine: context → word family → English definition → example sentence → monolingual dictionary → bilingual dictionary only if still needed.

Policy approaches: a neutral toolbox

Climate policy combines different instruments. Their effects can be studied empirically, while decisions about acceptable costs, distribution, rights and priorities involve political judgement. The IPCC Working Group III assesses families of instruments rather than prescribing a single political choice. IPCC WGIII Chapter 13

Source note: This Commons/Our World in Data map is dated 2024. Use it to practise spatial reading, not to assume that every country's policy is unchanged today.

Approach	Basic mechanism	Empirical question	Normative / political question
Carbon tax	attaches a monetary price to a unit of emissions	How did emissions, prices and distributional outcomes change after introduction?	Who should bear costs and how should revenue be used?
Emissions trading	caps covered emissions and allows trading of allowances	What sectors are covered and how did the cap and allowance price affect behaviour?	How should allowances be allocated and burdens distributed?
Regulation / standards	sets binding rules such as efficiency or technology standards	Did the rule change technology, energy use or emissions in the targeted sector?	Which requirements are proportionate and acceptable?
Subsidies / public investment	lowers cost or expands infrastructure for selected activities	Did the support accelerate deployment, innovation or access?	Which activities should receive public funds and under what conditions?
Adaptation	reduces exposure or vulnerability to climate impacts	Did a measure reduce losses, heat exposure or service disruption?	Which groups and places should receive priority?
Information / disclosure	changes available information for consumers, firms or investors	Did information change decisions measurably?	What information duties are justified and for whom?
International NDC process	countries submit and update nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement framework	What targets, sectors and implementation measures are reported?	How should ambition, responsibility and support be balanced among countries?

UNFCCC viewing task: Explain what an NDC is in no more than 40 words. Then write one factual question about implementation and one normative question about international burden-sharing. UNFCCC: Nationally Determined Contributions

Policy evidence check: IPCC assessments report that regulatory and economic instruments can be effective in different contexts and may complement each other. Effectiveness depends on design, coverage, enforcement and context; this is not a ranking of political programmes.

Analysis toolkit

Analyse a non-fiction text

Use purpose – audience – argument – evidence – language – omission.

Focus	Questions
Purpose	What is the text trying to explain, persuade, defend or mobilise?
Audience	What prior knowledge and attitudes are assumed?
Argument	What claims lead to what conclusion?
Evidence	Are there data, examples, expert references, comparisons or causal explanations?
Language	How do tone, register, modality, repetition, metaphor and forms of address shape effect?
Omission	What relevant perspective, uncertainty or counterevidence is not discussed?

Analyse a statistic or visual

Use SCALE:

Source and date — Who produced it and when? Categories — What exactly is counted? Axes and baseline — What is the reference? Limits — What is missing or uncertain? Evidence claim — What can the visual actually support?

Operator language

outline = give the main relevant points in a structured way. analyse = examine how features contribute to meaning or purpose. compare = identify relevant similarities and differences using criteria. discuss = develop a reasoned argument considering more than one relevant perspective. assess / evaluate = make a criteria-based judgement supported by evidence.

From the 2027 examination cohort onward, the Baden-Württemberg Facherlass refers to the IQB operator base for English. Check the current official list for your year. IQB operators English

Speaking

90-second evidence briefing

Choose one visual from this course.

Claim: Make one precise, non-sensational claim.
Evidence: Give one dated statistic or visible trend.
Limit: State one uncertainty, baseline issue or scope limitation.
Language: Use at least two hedging expressions such as the data indicate, within this period, this does not by itself show.

BF: one source, cue card allowed. LF: connect two sources and explain whether they reinforce, qualify or address different questions.

Policy roundtable

In groups, each person receives a different policy mechanism: pricing, regulation, public investment, adaptation or international coordination.

Your task is not to declare a universal winner. Compare approaches using agreed criteria such as effectiveness, administrative feasibility, distributional effects, speed, uncertainty and political acceptability. State which conclusions are empirical and which depend on priorities.

Writing

Abi-style source-based writing

Use one scientific source and one policy source from this course.

Task A – article: Write an article for an English-language school magazine explaining why climate debates become clearer when scientific findings and policy judgements are separated.

Task B – speech manuscript: Prepare a speech for a fictional youth conference in which you compare two policy approaches. Make your own judgement using explicit criteria, but do not present it as a scientific fact.

BF scope: about 350–450 words, two supplied sources, paragraph frames available. LF scope: about 500–650 words, three or more sources, independent synthesis, explicit handling of counterarguments and source limitations.

No replacement essay: Planning tools or permitted AI may help you generate questions or check a claim, but the analysis, selection of evidence and final text must be your own. Verify AI-generated facts against reliable sources and record AI use if your school requires it.

Writing frame for one analytical paragraph

Point — identify the communicative strategy. Evidence — refer briefly to a relevant feature. Analysis — explain how it shapes meaning or audience response. Link — connect it to the author's purpose and the wider argument.

Avoid: listing devices without analysing their function.

Mediation

Your school hosts an English-speaking exchange group. You receive a current German-language information page about a local heat-action plan or flood-preparedness measure.

Task: Mediate only the information the visitors need: purpose, target group, practical measures and one limitation. Do not translate line by line. Explain culture-specific or administrative terms in accessible English.

Privacy rule: Use teacher-provided or public information. Do not upload private local documents to external services.

BF / LF differentiation

Dimension	BF route	LF route
Material	one or two focused sources	broader multi-source dossier
Language	B2 core, transparent syntax, word banks	B2 to partly C1, denser argument and register control
Analysis	guided focus on purpose, evidence and key language	independent linking of rhetoric, data, context and omissions
Data	one graph with guided questions	comparison of datasets, baselines and methodological limits
Policy	compare two approaches with supplied criteria	compare several approaches and justify criteria independently
Writing	paragraph frames and checklists	self-directed structure and source synthesis
AFB	secure AFB I/II with selected AFB III	stronger emphasis on AFB II/III
Pace	shorter chunks and checkpoints	longer independent phases and synthesis

Principle: Differentiation changes breadth, depth, text complexity, independence and support — not the intellectual dignity of the task.

Help ladder

Use only as much help as you need.

Help 1 – Visualise: Draw the process or mark axes, baseline and unit.
Help 2 – Context: Guess meaning from the sentence and word family.
Help 3 – English explanation: Use a learner dictionary or glossary.
Help 4 – Sentence frame: Start with The source indicates ... because ...; however ...
Help 5 – German bridge: Check a short German explanation, then return to English.

Feedback and error analysis

Error	Diagnostic question	Revision move
claim too broad	Does the source support all, always or proves?	narrow the scope and add date/place
correlation treated as causation	What causal evidence is available?	distinguish association from attribution
baseline missing	Relative to what?	add reference period
unit missing	What exactly is measured?	add unit and category
science and policy mixed	Is this a finding or a judgement about what should be done?	label the layer explicitly
evidence dropped into paragraph	How does the evidence support the point?	add reasoning
quotation replaces analysis	What is the effect or significance?	paraphrase briefly and analyse
overconfident language	Is uncertainty reported?	use calibrated verbs and hedging

Feedback cycle: mark one strong evidence move, one reasoning gap and one language target. Revise only those three points first; then proofread.

Source and AI integrity

Source triangle: For an important factual claim, check authority, date and method. Prefer primary or assessment sources for scientific findings: IPCC, WMO, NASA, national meteorological services and peer-reviewed literature.

AI check: AI output is not a source. Verify named reports, dates, numbers, quotations and links independently. Never invent a citation to make an argument look stronger.

Academic independence: Do not ask AI to write a replacement essay, analysis or speech that you submit as your own. Use permitted tools for feedback, questions, vocabulary checks or alternative explanations, then make and document your own decisions.

Privacy: This course does not require external AI access. Recordings are voluntary and can remain private or local. Do not upload classmates' voices, images, documents or personal data without informed permission.

Transfer case: fictional city, real reasoning

Harborbridge 2040 is fictional. The following data are invented for learning and must not be cited as real-world evidence.

Indicator	Fictional value
population	320,000
households in mapped flood-risk zone	18%
annual public transport trips	42 million
municipal building-energy use	index 100 in base year
heat-alert days last summer	17

The city council asks for a briefing on three possible measures: stronger building standards, expanded public transport investment and additional heat-resilience measures.

BF: Compare two measures using effectiveness, cost uncertainty and social impact. Identify which statements require real data before any decision.

LF: Build a multi-criteria framework, explain trade-offs and design a source plan. You may reach your own judgement, but make clear which premises are empirical and which reflect priorities.

Abi-Check

Can you do these without looking at the model phrases?

Abi-Check 1: Outline the greenhouse mechanism in 70 words without oversimplifying it into “CO₂ stores heat”.
Abi-Check 2: Analyse one climate graph using source, date, baseline, unit, trend and limitation.
Abi-Check 3: Explain why one hot or cold day cannot confirm or refute long-term climate change.
Abi-Check 4: Distinguish attribution, projection and prediction.
Abi-Check 5: Analyse how a public speech combines evidence, evaluation and call for action.
Abi-Check 6: Compare two policy instruments with explicit criteria without presenting a political preference as scientific fact.
Abi-Check 7: Write a counterargument and respond to it with evidence.
Abi-Check 8: Mediate selected German information into audience-appropriate English rather than translating it.

Folgekurs

Continue with Globalisation as a global challenge, Environmental justice, Climate communication, Migration and global challenges, Media literacy in political communication or Statistics in English non-fiction texts.

A useful bridge to the current Baden-Württemberg examination focus is to ask how global challenges influence mobility, inequality, identity and cross-cultural encounters without forcing climate change into material where the evidence does not support that link.

Interaktive Aufgaben

Quiz: Teste Dein Wissen

Which statement best matches the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report? (Human activities mainly through greenhouse-gas emissions have unequivocally caused global warming) (!Recent warming is explained only by volcanic activity) (!Climate change can be proven by one weather event) (!Scientific attribution is the same as political preference)

What is a temperature anomaly? (A difference from a stated reference value or period) (!The total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere) (!A forecast that must happen) (!A political target for future emissions)

Which question is primarily empirical? (Did a defined policy reduce emissions in a specified sector and period) (!Which distribution of costs is morally fairest) (!Which political priority should every country adopt) (!Which value should society rank highest)

What should you check first when interpreting a climate graph? (Source date axes units and baseline) (!Whether the colours look alarming) (!Whether the graph confirms your prior opinion) (!Whether the title contains a strong adjective)

What does attribution research investigate? (The causes of observed changes) (!The translation of a text into another language) (!The fairest tax rate) (!The design of a campaign slogan)

Which statement about projections is correct? (Projections describe possible futures under stated assumptions) (!Projections are unconditional guarantees) (!Projections contain no uncertainty) (!Projections are identical to observations)

What is the main purpose of mitigation in climate policy? (To limit the magnitude of future climate change) (!To translate scientific reports) (!To measure only past weather) (!To remove all uncertainty from forecasts)

What is the main purpose of adaptation? (To reduce vulnerability or exposure to climate impacts) (!To prove that all policy choices are scientific) (!To replace greenhouse-gas measurements) (!To convert annual emissions into historical emissions automatically)

Which move improves an analytical paragraph most? (Explain how evidence supports the point and relates to purpose) (!List as many stylistic devices as possible) (!Copy a long quotation instead of analysing it) (!Use stronger adjectives when evidence is weak)

What is good practice when AI provides a climate statistic? (Verify the statistic date source and method independently) (!Treat the AI output itself as the primary source) (!Submit the generated analysis as your own) (!Remove uncertainty to make the claim clearer)

Memory

Attribution	Identifying causes of an observed change
Mitigation	Limiting the magnitude of future climate change
Adaptation	Adjusting to actual or expected climate impacts
Baseline	Reference value or period used for comparison
Projection	Possible future under stated assumptions
Resilience	Capacity to cope with disruption and recover
NDC	Nationally determined contribution under the Paris framework
Hedging	Language that calibrates certainty

Drag and Drop

Ordne die richtigen Begriffe zu.	Bedeutung
Scientific finding	Evidence-based statement about observed or modelled phenomena
Policy mechanism	Description of how an instrument is designed to work
Empirical policy claim	Testable statement about measurable effects of a policy
Normative judgement	Evaluation that depends partly on values or priorities
Source limitation	Boundary on what evidence can support
Uncertainty	Quantified or described limit to precision or knowledge

Kreuzworträtsel

Attribution	What term describes the scientific study of causes of observed climate change?
Mitigation	What term describes action aimed at limiting future climate change?
Adaptation	What term describes adjustment to actual or expected climate impacts?
Resilience	What term describes the capacity to cope with disruption and recover?
Baseline	What is the reference period or value used for comparison called?
Emissions	What word describes substances released into the atmosphere in this context?

LearningApps

Lückentext

The natural greenhouse effect is part of Earth's

. Human activities have increased atmospheric concentrations of

. Scientific attribution investigates the

of observed change. A temperature anomaly is calculated relative to a stated

. A model-based statement about a possible future under assumptions is a

. Climate mitigation aims to limit future

. Climate adaptation aims to reduce exposure or

. A political judgement should make its underlying

visible. A reliable data interpretation includes units, time span and

. AI-generated claims should be checked against an independent

.

Offene Aufgaben

Leicht

Climate postcard: Choose one Commons visual from the course and write a 100-word English caption containing source, date, trend and one limitation.
Word-family map: Create a visual map for five word families such as mitigate, adapt, regulate, emit and attribute; add one original sentence for each.
Science or policy: Collect eight climate-related statements from public sources and classify them as finding, projection, policy mechanism, empirical effect claim or normative judgement.
One-minute explainer: Record or present a private one-minute explanation of the greenhouse effect; recording is voluntary and does not need to be uploaded.

Standard

Graph commentary: Analyse one temperature, sea-level or emissions visual in 250–300 words using SCALE.
Source triangle: Compare how IPCC, WMO and a news report communicate the same climate indicator; focus on authority, date, method and wording.
Policy briefing: Compare two policy approaches for a fictional city using three criteria and label each conclusion as empirical or normative.
Mediation card: Turn a short German public-information text on heat or flood preparedness into an English information card for exchange students.

Schwer

Multi-source synthesis: Combine an IPCC finding, a WMO statistic and one policy source into a 500-word synthesis that separates evidence, uncertainty and evaluation.
Rhetoric audit: Analyse a climate speech or institutional video for selection of evidence, framing, tone, audience design and calls for action; verify all factual claims separately.
Policy evaluation framework: Design your own criteria for comparing three climate-policy instruments, justify the criteria and show how different priorities could lead to different conclusions without ranking political actors.
Mini inquiry: Formulate a research question on climate communication, build a small source set, document search choices and present findings plus limitations; use no personal data and no unrequested uploads.

Lernkontrolle

Transfer – conflicting headlines: Two headlines describe the same annual temperature dataset differently. Explain how both could use correct numbers yet frame the story differently, and design a neutral replacement headline.
Transfer – local cold spell: A person argues that a cold week disproves global warming. Respond by distinguishing weather, climate, scale and long-term evidence without attacking the person.
Transfer – policy effect: A city reports lower emissions after introducing a measure. Explain what additional information is needed before attributing the reduction to that policy.
Transfer – visual comparison: Compare an emissions-by-region graph with a per-capita graph. Explain how the change of denominator can alter interpretation without changing the underlying data.
Transfer – speech analysis: Separate factual claims, evaluative language and calls for action in a public climate speech and explain why each category requires a different kind of assessment.
Transfer – decision matrix: For the fictional Harborbridge case, design a transparent decision matrix. State which entries would require empirical data and which require an explicitly chosen value or priority.

Lernnachweis

Für einen Lernnachweis zu diesem Thema ist wichtig:

Scientific literacy: Du kannst den Treibhauseffekt, beobachtete Trends, Attribution und Projektionen fachlich korrekt auf Englisch erklären.
Data literacy: Du kannst Quelle, Datum, Einheit, Baseline, Trend und Unsicherheit aus Statistiken herausarbeiten.
Science-policy distinction: Du trennst wissenschaftliche Befunde, empirische Policy-Wirkungen und normative politische Bewertungen.
Reading and analysis: Du analysierst nicht-literarische Texte nach purpose, audience, argument, evidence, language und omission.
Listening and viewing: Du erschließt authentische Erklärvideos und öffentliche Kommunikation selektiv und kritisch.
Speaking: Du formulierst eine begründete, quellengestützte Position und markierst Unsicherheit und Werturteile transparent.
Writing: Du verfasst einen kohärenten source-based text mit eigenständiger Argumentation, Analyse und Gegenargument.
Mediation: Du vermittelst relevante deutschsprachige Informationen adressatengerecht auf Englisch statt vollständig zu übersetzen.
Source integrity: Du prüfst KI-Angaben, Statistiken, Zitate und Links und dokumentierst Quellen nachvollziehbar.
Academic independence: Dein Lernprodukt zeigt Deine eigene Analyse; Hilfsmittel ersetzen weder Urteil noch Schreibprozess.

OERs zum Thema

Open and authoritative starting points:

IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report – Headline Statements: scientific assessment overview.
WMO – State of the Global Climate 2025: current global indicators and methods.
NASA Climate: explainers, observations and visualisations.
UNFCCC – NDCs: official explanation of the national contribution process.
IPCC WGIII Chapter 13: assessment of national and sub-national policy instruments.
Wikimedia Commons – Climate change: freely licensed media; always check the individual file's licence and attribution information.
Kultusministerium Baden-Württemberg – Abitur: current official documents for the relevant examination year.

Media rights note: The images used in this aiMOOC come from Wikimedia Commons file pages with open or public-domain licensing information. YouTube material is embedded for viewing; it is not copied into the course. For reuse outside the wiki, check the licence and attribution on each original file page.

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