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College textbooks aren’t keeping up with the severity of the global climate crisis
Popular Science ^ | December 26, 2022 | BY CARLA DELGADO

Posted on 12/26/2022 7:37:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Textbooks are often deemed authoritative sources of information necessary for education. These learning materials include the latest scientific findings to reflect societal changes and show how knowledge has grown over time. They play a critical role in how educators tackle certain topics to educate their students in classroom settings.

Since curricular content has been shown to influence students’ knowledge of environmental issues, it’s essential to analyze how textbooks frame and discuss the pressing issue of climate change.

But, as it turns out, climate change coverage hasn’t changed drastically in science textbooks over the last 50 years, despite how much scientists have learned about the phenomena currently affecting and will continue to affect the entire planet.

Overall, it’s necessary to improve climate change coverage in textbooks so that students can understand how environmental issues shape everyday life as they know it. But at the very least, says Henderson, textbook authors and publishers should have a background in climate change science.

“Creating instructional materials is a very complex and difficult job; we’re certain that there’s no intention to underrepresent environmental issues,” says Landin. “We hope this study will help authors and publishers in the future. The easiest approach is to review the balance of topics and the expertise of authors of introductory biology materials.”

(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: bs; democult; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 12/26/2022 7:37:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate Catastrophists are already doing more economic and social damage than actual climate change (if indeed there is any) can ever do in the next 500 years. But that's a feature, not a bug.

Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Meanwhile, trust the climate oligarchs to find private profit in public policy.

2 posted on 12/26/2022 7:39:01 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Popular Science or Popular Pseudoscience?


3 posted on 12/26/2022 7:39:08 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Idol Worship. We need to destroy the idols.


4 posted on 12/26/2022 7:39:42 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And yet the severity of the lying hyperbole and bullcrap never ceases...


5 posted on 12/26/2022 7:40:11 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just listened to Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary and he was laughing all the way through his report over the global warming fools. Yes, its going to warm up a bit now in the Eastern regions, but another blast is coming mid-January.


6 posted on 12/26/2022 7:42:24 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Burn all science books that do not focus solely on Climate Change!

Oh, wait. Will the burning itself cause Climate Change?
I might have to rethink this.

7 posted on 12/26/2022 7:43:17 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...climate change coverage hasn’t changed drastically in science textbooks over the last 50 years...

You think maybe it's because the science doesn't support the whole climate change scare?

8 posted on 12/26/2022 7:43:31 AM PST by econjack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

🤔 “...severity of the global climate crisis....”. 😂😂😂🖕. Fidiots! Anyone seen our Yosemite glacier? I know it was around here someplace......


9 posted on 12/26/2022 7:44:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It can’t be scientifically proven, Popular Science. Cut the crap!


10 posted on 12/26/2022 7:45:18 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If memory serves me correctly, in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” V’ger wanted to destroy humanity because the “carbon-based” life forms were preventing V’ger from communicating with the creator.

Appears the Catholic Church forgot it was just at a f’ing movie.


11 posted on 12/26/2022 7:46:29 AM PST by Four of Six
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no “climate crisis”.
It is all a scam.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 7:47:28 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Depends on who is doing “the science”.



13 posted on 12/26/2022 7:48:08 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50 years ago it was global cooling that was going to kill us all.


14 posted on 12/26/2022 7:50:36 AM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hate these people.


15 posted on 12/26/2022 7:52:23 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well then,

The only answer is to burn all books, and people, that don’t profes climate change theology.

/s


16 posted on 12/26/2022 7:52:29 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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http://climatecasechart.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/non-us-case-documents/2019/20190822_Court-No.-VLC-S-S-111913_judgment.pdf


17 posted on 12/26/2022 7:54:19 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The fact these lunatics changed “Global Warming” to “Climate Change” shows how BS their beliefs are. Wasn’t there global cooling in the 60s?


18 posted on 12/26/2022 7:55:38 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

That is because climatechangeglobalwarmingglobalcooling is a hoax.


19 posted on 12/26/2022 7:56:59 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: bk1000

> There is no “climate crisis”. It is all a scam. <

Yep. Unfortunately, this scam is very different from previous ones in that this scam cannot be questioned, ever.

You want to hold a public debate on the social security crisis? Sure, go right ahead.

But try to hold a debate on the “climate crisis” and you will be denounced. Protestors would shut your event down.
It’s all very Stalinist.


20 posted on 12/26/2022 8:01:39 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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