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Is Climate Change the New Evolution?
sciencehabit writes "Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well-organized interest groups? A growing number of education advocates believe so, and yesterday, the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which fights the teaching of creationism, announced that it's going to take on climate change denial as well."
We should not allow anybody to teach anything that some parent does not agree with, and if we do we should always provide a "balanced" view of all sides. In every class no matter what. That way students can spend their entire school time on the first subject they encounter and never be able to move past it. That is how real science is done. Oh yeah, and we should also test the bejeebers out them to make sure that they understand it. Kids are so stuupid these dayz.
So is anthropomorphic climate change when you blame it on Mother Earth or Old Man Winter?
[climate denier mode] See! I wave it off! [whisks hand through the air *woosh!*] Off! Off! See? There, it's gone.[/climate denier mode] I only wish I was joking, but this is ultimately what evolution and climate deniers do. Once you destroy their arguments with pesky things like logic and facts, they revert to making mocking gesticulations and facial expressions. If you really keep at them, they may get violent, or at least begin to throw feces.
Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?
Looks like I can't edit posts on Slashdot (it's been years). I remember hearing about dihydrogen monoxide in my high school chemistry class. And also in a college science class, and once or twice by people I knew. You know, It even sounds more dangerous than carbon dioxide. Did you know that even a small amount of inhilation can lead to death? See also, http://www.dhmo.org/ of http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
It's easy to poke fun of astrologers and the like
Say what you like about astrology, but no one can deny that an opposition between Mercury and the Sun is something to worry about, for example.
Yes, yes, and a giant mutant space goat will eat the Earth is a few year's time, so it's important to build a 'B' Ark, and make sure people are on it.
I am John Hurt.