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California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education
Andrew Feinberg writes "A California State Senator is seeking to mandate climate change as part of the standard science curriculum. Other members of the legislative body seek to teach an opposing view. 'Simitian noted that his bill wouldn't dictate what to teach or in what grades, but rather would require the state Board of Education and state Department of Education to decide both. Although global warming is mentioned in high school classes about weather, it is currently not required to be covered in all textbooks, said the head of the California Science Teachers Association ... teachers would have plenty to discuss: rising levels of carbon dioxide, how temperatures are measured globally, and what is known and not known about global warming.'"
I just wish they would all stop misusing "theory".
"Climate change" is a little rough, but I do think that the impact should be brought up. Maybe talk about energy efficiency, and spend a day going over the low-hanging fruit of improvements.
The kids forget the entire lesson anyway as soon as they are picked up in their parent's Yukons...
Same difference. They establish the new climate change curriculum, which of course is biased towards the fanatical environmentalist agenda, and teachers have to cover it whether they like it or not. That's the parent poster's concern.
Its not that mandating is bad. Its that mandating based on religion, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, or any other fucktarded cognitive dissonance extravaganza is bad.
They establish the new climate change curriculum, which of course is biased towards the fanatical environmentalist agenda, and teachers have to cover it whether they like it or not. OK, how about this then. We legislate what is supported by NOAA, the USEPA, the American Meterological Society, and the US National Academy of Science? Completely boring, pocket-protectored, the bibliography is the best part of the journal article, geektastic real scientists? No Greenpeace Rulz, hemp is a viable product, anti-GMO, anti-vaccination, crystal wearing weirdos?
and teachers have to cover it whether they like it or not. Exactly, then if you were a teacher you would have to teach that global warming is real and man made. Since that's what NOAA et al support. You would of course hate this, because you get your scientific information the popular media and your skepticism has its roots more in Rush Limbaugh than in a scientific journal. And that's precisely why you'd be pissed and precisely why we need legislation like this.
Way to prove the point.
Creationists are fond of 'airing the dirty laundry' of evolutionary biologists by flying real academic debate up the flagpole. When Stephen Jay Gould said Darwin was wrong about gradualism. Punctuated equilibrium is a better model of evolution that was shortened by them to Darwin was wrong.
You are doing the same thing here. Show me a reputable scientific society or organization that does not agree that global warming is happening and humans are part of the cause. They might argue that its 50% instead of 80%, but no one is arguing its not there.
You're a meteorologist, eh?
I'll tell you what - when you guys can tell me what's going to happen the next DAY, I'll listen to your criticism about what others have to say about long-term climate change. I can't believe a meteorologist would dare criticize someone in another field for accuracy.
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