Education about global climate change.

Educating the public regarding the notion of global warming somewhat evolved with the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. Since then the dissemination of the idea of global warming has occurred through the news media, via internet sites, on social media, and through the publishing of formal and informal literature, along with other forms of media. Formal academic sources such as the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), the International Journal of Climatology, and Nature Climate Change are examples of scientific information sources. In contrast, books and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and I am Greta (2020) are popular vehicles used to educate the public on the issue. Getting the word out about climate change and in particular global warming has transcended a variety of media and organizations.