Posted on 04/29/2021 8:25:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To whom was this great vessel entrusted? A man shaking in his boots because of questionable climate alarmist beliefs. Lost among the myriad of other Leftist fallacies hides one lie with power and purpose unparalleled: the danger of climate change.
I write as the exception to the indoctrination so commonplace in today’s classrooms. As a kid, I always looked askance at climate change. In fifth grade I commonly cited the ice age for proof: “Of course the world changes temperature, we’ve had ice ages before, and those weren’t caused by wooly mammoths leaving their fridges open.” Granted, the point is somewhat ridiculous, but the sentiment behind it is not. Climate change, especially the absolute certainty that human malignance drives it, is not as rock solid as it first appears.
But to say this on campus is to commit social suicide. Trust me. I’ve been there, and I’ve done it.
Never do I speak without strong evidence. I have troves of data that rebut the most widespread climate fallacies.
They say life expectancy declines with rising temperatures—no, it’s actually increased. They cry that food is running short—no, it’s not. They insist intense weather events like hurricanes are growing more common—no, they have remained stagnant.
Behind each “no” lies more than just a contradiction. Pages of graphs and charts and data, all documented to the fullest extent possible by organizations like the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, support these statements.
Despite all the media hype about them, recent wildfires in the United States only burn 10 million acres annually compared to the over 50 million burned yearly in the 1930’s. For all of the talk of food shortages, global calorie supply per capita rose some 30% from 1961 to 2013, and global crop yields have continued to rise since then (aided by fossil fuel byproducts). While experts speak of green areas slowly disappearing, global tree cover has increased by 2 million square kilometers since the 1980s.
Here’s the secret: For some people, it doesn’t matter what is true and what is false. It doesn’t matter how credible the data are. It doesn’t even matter if you have data at all.
What really matters, in the eyes of climate alarmists, is propagating the narrative. The narrative that speaks of death and gloom on an unheard-of scale. The narrative that promises the end of the world in 10 years, and then 10 years after that. The narrative that shapes public policy and presidencies.
The last point is the most disturbing. In thousands of classrooms, every day, teachers just as frightened as mine stand at the front of a room. Before them are impressionable young minds ripe for the shaping. And teachers do what teachers do: they teach.
Except no one is there to correct them when they preach climate fallacies. No one tells them green areas have increased. No student stands up and declares there are more trees in the U.S. now than there were 100 years ago.
With no resistance, the climate lie goes on, just as it was passed on by our teachers’ teachers 40 years ago. And it will be passed on again to the next generation of leaders and professors and social workers. Alarmism will spread like the virus it is.
Children shape society. They move mountains gradually, slowly gaining power and influence as the world ages and drops off around them. Climate alarmism starts in the schools, because when you indoctrinate children with a certain world view, that view becomes the view of the majority. The virus spreads and the lie grows, and so too does the power.
The power is the most important part. Climate change research is publicly funded and only supported when it finds immediate or irreversible damage. Behind closed doors, leading climate alarmists know their stance is highly debatable.
But when sea levels will rise and people will die, public money and policy will quickly move to remedy the situation. That invariably involves money in researchers’ pockets.
Thus arrive the policy suggestions: if carbon emissions are too high, one only needs to overhaul the fossil fuel industry and replace it with wind turbines and solar panels. Sure, it costs incredible amounts of money, and sure, most states that have tried it have experienced substantial increases in electricity prices. But it is of no object to the great climate task that simply must be addressed.
We have a task before us as well. It, too, lies in the classroom. It, too, starts with the children. But our task is the antithesis of the alarmists’. We must use hard, empirical data to refute fallacies propped up by faulty computer models, technology to counteract propagandists.
The fight will be fought on whiteboards and linoleum floors. It will be waged using pencils and chalk. It will rage under the bright glow of fluorescent lights. It will last as long as it must, because it must. And I, for one, will fight.
Reagan Eastlick is a senior at Hagerty High School in Oviedo, FL, who enjoys running and creating new things. He intends to follow medicine and military service as a vocation.
Girly man... by the way, that’s not history. That’s future.
You can likely substitute “history” with Math, English, PE, French or any number of other subjects at any school in the country and have the same article hold true.
To be ruled, people needs to be scared by something. Some huge global threat that only the few, anointed ones can solve.
Global warming fills task this perfectly!
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The world is about to get colder. The sun is entering it Maunder Minimum with virtually no sunspot activity. It is going to last about 20 years.
So we might be about to enter into a ‘mini ice age.’
That is because the solvable problems are caused by the wrong demographic.
No one wants to point out that China is over fishing the oceans and polluting the air and water. They do not want to point out that they are causing deserts to actually row while they shrink in even the poorest areas of the world.
China must never be mentioned.
We need school reform before we lose another generation to this crappola. They are now influencing corporations and we are almost beyond the turning point to save this country.
If only The GOP was as aggressive as the socialists when immediately implementing policy.
We have fought using data and facts as weapons to no avail because their feelings trump our data and facts every time. They don’t listen because they don’t want to listen. We need to make them listen, but how do we do that?
When I didn’t listen to my dad when I was a kid and flooded the horse corrals after he told me to keep an eye on the levels, but I decided I was going to go play baseball instead, I got spanked. Hard. He made it count.
I never flooded a horse corral ever again.
It happened forty two years ago, but I remember like it was yesterday.
I would pay to see this kid and the Snarling Swede debate global warming.
RE: I would pay to see this kid and the Snarling Swede debate global warming.
Did the Snarling Swede actually reach her senior year in high school?
What happened to teaching students how to think, not what to think?
Ops, my bad, Leftists took over the entire K12 and academic system.
All science students should be taught that DNA studies prove conclusively, that Native American’s ancestors walked to the America’s from Asia, 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, when sea levels were at least 300 feet lower.
Since the invention of the Automobile and the Airplane, Sea Levels have gone up less than 1 foot.
Discuss.
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