Posted on 11/27/2006 5:08:31 PM PST by Nachum
My daughter came home frightened to death after her "physics" class was shown the Al Gore movie. I would love for FReepers who have good source material to help us refute her teacher.
The teacher is a rabid democrat and obviously shoved this down the kids' throats. The class are kids, ranging in ages of 16 to 18 (juniors and seniors).
Any links to printable material would be greatly appreciated.
My eldest daughter saw it and said it was good. She said Al Gore was funny. I wrote her out of the will shortly thereafter.
I only think it is crap because of Al Gore's delusion that he will save the world. I don't know about global warming. I suspect we have a roll but suspect there is really not much to do about it but adapt. Besides I will be dead by the time it gets really hot. And I live in Louisiana,,we are already in hell down here and it's not that bad, really.
Change schools then.
Ha!
I was just looking at Druge and the forecast for hurricanes during the 2006 season. Show her that. It will show her that experts are not always expert at predicting weather.
Junkscience.com is probably your best online source of info. It may take some research through their archives, but you will find a veritable treasure trove of info.
Here's some links to some rebuttals to Al Gore:
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 1: "Pollution"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05621.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 2: "Hurricane Catarina"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05623.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 3: "Warming Rate"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05622.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 4: "Moulins"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05624.cfm
There was also an article, a few weeks back, where they completely debunk the use of climate models in predicting Global Warming. Very technical, but they openly challenged any climate modeler to refute their conclusions, a challenge which still stands.
One of the problems with research these days is that the left has tirelessly worked on a strategy of getting "the furthest with the mostest." If the information isn't accurate, they want to insure that plenty of it is out there so only the smartest and driven kids will wade through the haystack to find the needle. The left thinks that infinite terabytes of BS equals facts. What kid these days wants to pour past several hundred pages of leftist wishful thinking to get to one truth?
My kids are constantly challenged at school, at church, and even among family members about what they believe. We talk about it. I don't think you can change the teacher. But you can, and should help your kid reconcile conflicting information from people in positions of authority. As long as they can do that, they don't need to beat the teacher in an argument. Frankly, one of the things you have to learn growing up is how to pick your battles, and don't pick battles with the boss unless you feel you have to.
If outside of class, your daughter can tell her friends why she doesn't buy what the teacher is selling, she will have more positive influence than by arguing with the teacher.
Voice of reason. Low profile, get the grade, teach her otherwise. And tell her no fraidy cats need expect sympathy for bogus fears.
I have no intention of seeing the movie, so I can't speak for what is in it. However, I had a conversation with a young woman (early 20's) that came in my place of business today. We were talking about the weather & how it was surprisingly warm to be after Thanksgiving. She then told me she was very frightened by the weather we had experienced this last year - I asked her why she was frightened & she asked me "if I believed in global warming"? I told her I believed that weather goes in cycles, that what goes up eventually comes down & that the earth had experienced global warming periods before man had even had a chance to mess anything up.
She looked at me very strangely and walked out.
Funny too! (thanks for the link to the South Park episode...LOL)
Just don't assume the rest of us are going to join you with their heads in the sand.
Amazing.
My daughter's tenth grade teacher showed the girls a film on how animals were slaughtered,,it was gruesome. Had all these baby cows beiing murdered for veal etc.
Anyway there were 40 girls in the class. About 35 became vegetarians and several got anorexia. It was amazing. Mine was a faux vegetarian until I started making filets every night and she could never resist a good filet.
I now eat little meat, maybe once a week and mostly eat veggies. But I am not a growing teen and it isn't political.
Good luck!
Girls are like race horses,,they can be awfully high strung and skittish. At least mine were. Now they have their own little skittish girls and sometimes they sound just like me when they meet with all the drama.
I kind of got away from my main point I started with. I think it is important that my kids know what they believe and why. When it is challenged, I work with them to reconcile what they see, hear, and believe. I think it is effective. I don't have to change the world... just give my kids a chance to grow and be strong in their beliefs, even when they don't see eye to eye with mine.
Try Falsehoods in Gore's An Inconvenient Truth compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston at http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/gore.html and the links he gives.
I went to a Paul & Linda McCartney concert one time & they showed a film in the background of similar animal slaughters & cruelties. I must confess I had a hard time eating meat for awhile after that.
Global warming. It may be heating up a bit, but only in the northern hemisphere which is from the sun. Also, anyone watch Bill Nye the science guy? He also had a show on global warming where the scientists took samples from the ice cap, I think, and the earth has warmed up twice before. Just a natural phenomenon. Get out the sunscreen, grow lots of trees to absorb the sun's rays, and enjoy not having to buy foreign oil during the winter. I am sure there are plenty of scientists who can also refute most of what goregon said in his report, although I do believe in being responsible with the earth. This Is My Father's World, you know.
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