What Do Your Kids Know About Climate Change? (Other than being a hoax? Philly indoctrination)

Philadelphia Weekly ^ | 4/13/10 | Lance Duroni

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What Do Your Kids Know About Climate Change?
A look at global warming curriculum in the Philadelphia School District.
By Lance Duroni
Posted Apr. 13, 2010

The past six months have seen something of a renaissance in climate-change skepticism. Hacked emails revealed climate scientists being less than forthright in response to freedom of information requests; the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted to errors in its report; and Al Gore, the punch line that can somehow instantly discredit the work of thousands of scientists worldwide, has been accused of profiteering in his advocacy of strong action to mitigate climate change.

These revelations, regardless of their merits or relative significance to the mountain of evidence pointing to a potentially dangerous human influence on climate, were probably on the minds of South Dakota legislators last month when they passed a resolution demanding a “balanced” approach to teaching global warming in the state’s public schools. If geriatric policy makers and silver-haired pundits want to dose themselves with spin before assessing the threat of climate change, so be it.

The kids, however, deserve an unbiased and apolitical introduction to the matter.

Here in the deepest-blue corner of a Democratic state, there is little to fear over this kind of right-wing legislative meddling. But Philadelphia-area schools might be just the sort of global-warming-alarmist indoctrination centers that the South Dakota resolution is trying to prevent.

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“I try to get across the idea that [climate change science] is the result of a process that is pretty darn reliable,” he says.

Do we have anything called the 'lost' generation yet?

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“I try to get across the idea that [climate change science] is the result of a process that is pretty darn reliable,” he says. “When you submit peer-reviewed research, it’s looked at by your peers and 99 times out of 100 you are going to catch really serious errors.

When your peers have the same biases you have, the a peer review will not catch the obvious errors. Your peers will correct 12.0045 to be 12.0046.

Thank God Christopher Columbus did not have his America Trip peer reviewed, or I would be living in Europe.

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"What Do Your Kids Know About Climate Change?"

[Kellis91789]

“... unbiased and apolitical ...”

He didn’t really keep a straight face as he wrote that, did he ?

[pankot]

Al Gore: The Bernie Madoff of Global Warming (aka Climate Change).

[brityank]

It's Official: Everything Bad Is Caused by Global Warming!

[Captainpaintball]

Brilliant cartoon.

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Beam me to Planet Gore !

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[End Times Sentinel]

My kids learned the word “hoax” when I told them about climate change.

There was an Aussie fella on Prager today, shooting holes in the AGW farce, and Prager asked him: “Is there any level of CO2 that you’d worry about?”
“Well, yes. If it fell below 200 ppm., because that would end plant life.”
“So, too low!?!?!”
“Oh yes. It’s at 350 now, and 950 would be ideal. We’d have to get to 5% before we’d be in trouble.”