Look up anything about energy and the environment and bias will be clear in two pages.
In my experience many textbooks are filled with junk science and contribute to the weak curricula. Any topic revolving around energy or the environment will generally portray humans as the killers of cuddly polar bears or some other doom and gloom. It is rare it find the awesome achievements of the 20th century: peaceful nuclear fission, automobiles, and other technological advances presented without cautionary caveats and apologies. Why would a 4th grader wish to pursue the hard sciences that manipulate natural resources if mankind is always held up as the despoiler of nature? The clamor to retreat from the benefits of the Industrial Revolution by those who consider a gas (CO2) constituting 0.038 percent of our atmosphere to be a terrible calamity in the making is another indication of the anti-science that often impacts education curricula decisions.
Why teach science if it going to be ignored in the debate surrounding the global warming superstition?
More Bad News for the Global Warmers
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?c12c2a7e-ffa8-4a64-9c00-416951497008
Green movement using school children as puppets, Wall Street Journal, 29Sep07.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119101716857043113.html
Children are being indoctrinated and used as pawns by those promoting anti-science and anti-human ideologies.
The Global Warming Goons Want Your Little Ones
http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2008/11/29/the_global_warming_goons_want_your_little_ones?page=full&comments=true
Reality Deniers, 15Jan08, by Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center of the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MzMwOTcxNWEyYWE4ZDQ0MTA5ZWRkNWE3MWJlODUzYzQ=
EXCERPT:
“Unfortunately, it seems that public opinion is leaning more toward feel-good efforts than toward real solutions. This can be partly blamed on our education system. Math teachers that place more emphasis on how a student feels about a problem than the correct answer, or a biology teacher ranting about the mythical extinction of polar bears, are not conducive to maintaining an informed public.
“The entertainment industry is equally to blame. While movie stars are sexy, equations are not so much. Movie producers and writers tug on our heart strings with stories centered on modern technological problems, but their solution to those problems always ends up with a touchy-feely vindication of the environmentally-concerned citizen over the evil corporate polluters. Those of us old enough to remember the 1979 movie “The China Syndrome” know that it had a profound effect on our views of the safety of nuclear power.
“But touchy-feely people need energy, too, and I can guarantee you that the solution to any energy problem won’t be in the touchy-feely realm. It will involve real chemistry, real physics, real engineering, real math, and real science.”