Posted on 05/22/2016 4:25:13 PM PDT by matt04
School officials in Portland, Oregon, have banned books questioning climate change from the classroom.
The city's public school board voted last week that any material saying climate change doesn't exist or that humans are not at fault should be removed.
The resolution also directs school staff to develop an implementation plan for 'curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools.'
The measure was passed even though the Oregon Institute of Science and medicine is circulating a petition which states: 'there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.'
So far it has 32,000 signers, including 9,000 Ph.D.s.
Bill Bigelow, a former Portland public school teacher who worked to present the resolution told the Portland Tribune: 'A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise.
'We don't want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry.'
Bigelow has published a text book called A People's Curriculum for the Earth, and could gain from the new policy.
However he denied that he would profit from the move, insisting that rethinking how children are taught is not a money-maker.
'What we're asking for is not: Buy new stuff,' he added. What we're looking for is a whole different model of curriculum development and distribution.
Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux submitted testimony to the school board saying why the resolution should be passed.
She wrote: 'It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis.
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They are ensuring that these children will not only lack the tools to handle the next Ice Age, but they will actually be forbidden from even addressing the Ice Age. They are sending these children to their deaths. Crop failures this spring are gonna be significant. Next year they will be massive. Due to cold.
Predator.
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