Abstract
The climate problem today caused damage to infrastructures and many other living elements among mankind. As the prospected future leaders, students need to understand and to respond the effects of climate change. A person with climate literacy may enhance their ability and capacity to face climate challenges in the future. Climate literacy is the understanding of the influence of self and society on the climate. This research is conducted to give a general picture of climate literacy among high school students in Surabaya and each indicator in climate competency aspects. The methodology used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method. The research instrument used in this research is a climate literacy test. The valuation of climate literacy capacity of the students being done by giving scores manually from the test answers according to the scoring guideline in the scoring rubric and achievement results with categories as very high, high, moderate, low, and very low. The research samples are 107 high school students at level XI in SMAN 22 Surabaya (Public High School 22 Surabaya). According to the research, the students’ indicator in scientific identifying is low with a score percentage of 48.9%. The students’ indicator in explaining the scientific phenomenon is moderate with a score of 74.5%, while students’ indicator score in using scientific evidence is moderate with 68.6%. It could be said that high school students in SMAN 22 Surabaya as a whole have a moderate climate literacy capacity with a percentage score of 64%.
Highlights
Climate change is a real threat to the civilization of mankind
The population in this research is all students in level XI that is registered in SMAN 22 Surabaya
According to the existing theory, it could be said from that score result that the climate students’ change literacy competency is categorized as ‘moderate’. When it is analyzed deeper, it will be exposed that each student have their excellence from the total acquired score in answering climate literacy questions
Summary
Climate change is a real threat to the civilization of mankind. Everything that correlates with climaterelated phenomena or climate change is predicted to destroy and disrupt social systems, infrastructures, even ecosystems. Global act to cut greenhouse gas emissions may decrease the risk of tremendous climate change (USGCRP, 2018). According to Wolff (Julismin, 2013), problems of climate change have already occurred since the 1900s. Some indicators that become the factors of climate change have been observed with the climate temperature rise to 0.8-degree Celcius or 14-degree Fahrenheit. The rise of climate temperature is aligned with the raise of the warming sea temperature which impacted the melting of ice in the North Pole and the South Pole in an immense number. Extreme weather could be used as an indicator of climate change
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