Get a copy of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg:
Posted on 11/27/2006 5:08:31 PM PST by Nachum
Just have her ask her teacher what caused the LAST global warming, when the ice started to melt. Something caused it, and it wasn't man.
I will guarantee you that if she is scared it isn't from seeing a movie that is junky. It is because she is either a frightened teenager of many things or because her parents act like her brain will be scared by this experience. I suspect the latter.
It is outrageous that a teacher uses this crap as a lesson in school. I would complain to the chair of the Sci dept and to the principle and to the Board of Ed.
Why in hades would a parent try to turn this into a media event for crying out loud. That is scarier to me than a dumb movie.
Heck, she is a teenager. I would have spent the movie flirting especially if it was dark.
LOL!
Maybe she was scared because she enjoyed the movie and was worriied her Mother would go balistic! THink about it,,kids love to think their Parents are wrong but are scared of drama queen moms who might cause a scene.
School periods are the perfect length of time for a power nap.
It's an all girl's private parochial school. Not much flirting goes on there. :)
Try Dixy Lee Ray's books.
Tell the teacher it is Global Norming, get used to it.
Get a copy of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg:
have her ask the teacher - how did the ice ages end? didn't the earth warm up during those periods of time? were there any "man made" factors involved in those warming periods?
no.
She needs to visit a "Rudy" thread!
Oh, I can get the pic now. All those little girls in cute uniforms outdoing each other being "scared"..she needs to get a grip and you need to tell her to "get a grip".
Teenager girls love to have great emotional fear fests,,they need a Mother to tell them not to be drama queens, ninnies, scaredy cats and so on.
I agree the research should be done by her. It will cure her fear super fast.
meanwhile you need a nice glass of a cabernet,,it will make things ever so much better. And soon she will marry and her dramas will belong to her husband. Man that is a relief.
I feel for you. A few months ago, in a college class of mine, we were forced to watch 'Roger and Me.' Having known about it a month before we were shown it, I made good use of my time by digging up all the dirt I could get on 'Roger and Me,' so after we watched the film, I used the knowledge I found to tear into the film, and expose all its holes.
That being said, to assume the entire movie is crap would be foolish. To deny that humans are having a substantial and negative impact on the planet is simply ludicrous.
It may be quite some time before the actual truth of the full extent of that impact comes out.
Don't these movies have to pass through a screening process?
They can't just show any old movie.
In fact my understanding these days is that there is a curriculum approval process.
You can also counter this teachers propaganda with demands that the myths pushed by algore be countered with the overwhelming science of the other side.
LOL!
Either you forgot your sarcasm tag....or you need to do some research about "global warming."
Embrace it as a chance to counter it hard with the facts.
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