Posted on 04/06/2023 5:13:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From crops to corals, a book circulated by a controversial US think tank is riddled with misleading claims about established climate science, in what campaigners slam as a bid to "infect" young minds.
The free-market Heartland Institute drew outrage from campaigners and educators, but applause from climate skeptics, when it sent the book to more than 8,000 American school teachers this year "to present facts" it said were ignored or distorted by pundits and the media.
"Climate at a Glance for Teachers and Students," factchecked by AFP, follows another mass book-mailing in 2017, and reflects a push to sow skepticism about scientific evidence for the human-driven crisis threatening the planet.
"It is outrageous that such propaganda was sent out... with the goal of infecting the minds of children," Susan Joy Hassol, director of the nonprofit group Climate Communication, told AFP.
The glossy, 80-page book appears like a legitimate reference, complete with datasets, graphs and footnotes citing mainstream sources including government and international agencies.
But scientists told AFP it is packed with misleading claims, including sections that imply higher carbon dioxide levels and warming are positive for crops and coral reefs, decrease in snow has been negligible, sea-level rise is not accelerating and heatwaves have become less severe.
"We stand by the data presented" in the book, its editor and the institute's climate chief H. Sterling Burnett told AFP.
The book's publication follows a surge in climate denialism in the United States since July 2022, when President Joe Biden secured support for a major climate spending bill.
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Climate denier. In other words heretics.
The horrors! Expecting teachers to read another viewpoint and take a look at alternative evidence and research.
Weather Deniers cannot stand it when someone points out that there is no such thing as Settled Science.
Every time I hear the term “climate skeptic” I simply respond
Skepticism is REQUIRED for Science...
Only someone who is lying to you fears and attempts to silence the skeptical.
I don’t know anyone who denies the Climate is changing.. the Climate is always changing...
Being Skeptical of political movements calling themselves science is healthy.
There is climate change....
There has been climate change everyday since the earth has been in existence...
It is NOT man-made climate change.....
It IS natural climate change....
These are the TRUTHS about climate change....
This propaganda review is heavy on rhetoric and logical fallacies but free of actual logical or scientific rebuttals of the book’s arguments.
Oh my God! The book presents DATA! We can’t have THAT!
“But scientists told AFP it is packed with misleading claims, including sections that imply higher carbon dioxide levels and warming are positive for crops”
OMG did the idiot writing this ever hear of photosynthesis? Is it misleading to teach children about photosynthesis? I guess my 8th grade science teacher was working for Exxon 40 years ago, who knew.
AFP is not simply giving an opinion, it's repeating bald faced lies. Any 'scientist' with half a brain knows those 'claims' are absolute truth.
Don't believe another word coming from AFP.
“Climate denialism” (casually asserted as such) is not a real thing. I need to be shown even ONE real example of it.
And then there’s: Susan Joy Hassol, director of the nonprofit group Climate Communication. Take her last name, insert the “H” after the 2nd “S” and you’ll have it about right.
“In fact,” scientists say, “all plants need is Brawndo. It’s got electrolytes, which is what plants crave,” the scientists said.
Climate Science is like Astrology, it makes Economists appear to be scientific
The word “established” is incompatible with science. Anyone using both needs to be ignored.
Considering that this push was started by a chart that showed a skyrocketing spike in carbon. Well, some years later, it was discovered that the "spike" was caused by the "scientists" who took out the "little ice age" data in order to produce the "spike" in the chart. When the data is returned, you have the chart looking like the edge of a serrated saw. No spike at all.
I will also point out (because I am that old) that it was also discovered that the temperature data collecting machines were placed on sites that would have a higher temperature than if they had been placed in more neutral sites (on concrete at an airport vs. on a grassy, more suburban site).
So, skepticism is warranted.
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