D’oh!
“Does ALL scientists...” = “Do ALL scientists..”
Good job, papa. You are talking to him about the issue and that is the most important thing. Sounds like you are already doing the right thing.
A good grounding in geology along with a history of the political misuse of science during the last 300 years would give him a little prospective.
There's also this book. The Politically Incorrect Guide To Global Warming. http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Global-Warming-Environmentalism/dp/B001JJBOQA/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1315880590&sr=8-22
Get thee and your child to a real physicist...not a weatherman with a couple of computer programming classes ( and very little advanced math).
He or she quickly demolish the liberal-level science demonstrated by the climate change priests.
The Earth has both heated and cooled dramatically, LONG before we were ever here. To believe we are the cause of any warming now is highly suspect. Simple as that. Depending on the age of the child, I may avoid the politics of it.
Home School.
I agree with the post above....the bias is on every page of the new texts. Tree hugging, New World Order, MultiCulturism....I am using Calvert this year, and we are reading it, but only because I am going through it with him and discussing it. I can understand the mind set of kids today after going through these.
We spend most of the time talking about the “facts” that counter the books!
No, there’s a significant group that believe that the carbon-dioxide count LAGS behind actual warming trends.
Sorry, but I don’t recall where I came upon that.
Ping.
Additionally, ask how long the earth has been here and how long man has been keeping reliable, accurate records of climate changes, and how those two answers can be reconciled on the side of the U.S. changing the current climate trends.
You're well able to come up with the questions ... I'm just pointing to general areas of discourse that never return a cogent answer from a liberal greenie.
In the past the ice was once one mile thick where Chicago is today, ask the teacher what caused those multiple ice ages and what caused those ice ages to end.
It’s true — the teacher could be in this position due to ignorance that isn’t her fault — just going along with the curriculum and she has never heard about significant dissent on this matter.
Yes, it makes sense to ask how the scientific community is split on the question of why the earth warms or cools when it does. And do increases of carbon dioxide tend to follow warming or do they tend to precede it (and the same for cooling). Also ask how surface temperature readings are obtained. Are they mostly in large paved areas (e.g. airports) or out in the wilderness? How might being in a large paved area affect a temperature reading? Weather Underground (not the infamous bomber group, but the web site www.wunderground.com) now offers a wide choice of weather stations at many locales. This would be a good way to approach the question of how the area affects the temperature reading. Shoot, it could be the basis of an entry in a science fair.
Have him ask his teacher “well then, what ended the last ice age 25,000 years ago?” Neanderthal fires? Neanderthal CO2?
Co2 makes up .036% of the atmosphere. You’d might want to illustrate how little that realli is.
Look up the particulars to the fact that water vapor is the number one (by far) greenhouse gas. Have him ask the teacher what scientists are planning to do about the water vapor problem.
I'm not saying don't educate your child, but also educate him to the fact that liberals choose to be fools, and most of them can't be helped.