Posted on 03/12/2012 5:42:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After many years in which evolution was the most contentious issue in science education, climate change is now the battle du jour in school districts across the country.
The fight could heat up further in April, when several national bodies are set to release a draft of new science standards that include detailed instruction on climate change.
The groups preparing the standards include the National Research Council, which is part of the congressionally chartered National Academies. They are working from a document they drew up last year that says climate change is caused in part by manmade events, such as the burning of fossil fuels. The document says rising temperatures could have "large consequences" for the planet.
Most climate experts accept those notions as settled science. But they are still debated by some scientists, helping to fuel conflicts between parents and teachers.
The National Center for Science Education, an advocacy group that has defended the teaching of evolution, now has an initiative to support climate-change education. Like evolution, climate change is "settled science," said the center's executive director, Eugenie Scott. "We shouldn't fight the culture wars in the high-school classroom."
A conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute, is pursuing a competing effort to develop a K-12 curriculum that questions the idea of manmade global warming, according to David Wojick, a consultant who is designing the plan.
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Even though they can’t win a straight-up debate on the warming hoax or on the acceptance of the sodomite lifestyle, they can always win by indoctrinating the children that so-called conservatives deliver to them in the government schools.
Now if they just explain why the earth was warmer 65 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs. (I know. dinosaurs refused to buy Chevy Volts.)
“the center’s executive director, Eugenie Scott. “We shouldn’t fight the culture wars in the high-school classroom.” “
Fine!
You surrender and accept the “Skeptic’s position AGAINST AGW!
In the words of a bumper sticker probably on one of your cars at sometime in your life, “Give Peace A Chance”
Yield to good science and common sense. My SUV is not going to destroy the planet.
Not satire?!
"Resistance is futile."
Control freak schoolyard bullies. May the heat of a 1000 suns teach them all they need to know about climate change.
Parents who must still send their children to publik skools need to make sure that they tell their children the truth when they come home from “school” each day. “Climate change” is a commie scam being used to destroy America and THEIR FUTURE while making the commie piggies piggier.
This is not a true statement. What is accepted as settled science is that CO2 concentrations rise and fall after temperatures rise and fall. CO2 concentrations don't lead temperature changes.
What most climate experts accept is that we are in an ice age waiting for the next glaciation. There is nothing we can do to raise temperatures although we could lower them.
These folks have had 200 years for their predictions to come true and they're always wrong..
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