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Readin', Writin' And Warmin'
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Global Warming: A lawmaker from the Silicon Valley wants to require "climate change" to be taught as "science" in all California public schools. Warmers can't convince the adults, but they can brainwash the children.
"You can't have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn't deal with the science behind climate change," says the bill's sponsor, California state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto. "This is a phenomenon of global importance, and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon."
So should adults such as Al Gore, who declares the debate over even as evidence debunking the junk science behind Simitian's proposal surfaces daily.
We don't know who'll write the climate change curriculum, but we'd guess it wouldn't be Dr. William Gray, professor emeritus of the atmospheric department at Colorado State University, who has become known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster.
"We're brainwashing our children," Gray told 300 meteorology students at the University of North Carolina last year. "They're going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."
This scientist and student of global warming said, "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major impact on global temperatures."
Climatology pioneer Reid Bryson, founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, says, "You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide."
Bryson agrees the Earth's temperature is rising but says man has little to do with it. "Of course it's going up," he says. "It has gone up since the early 1800s, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air."
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has released a minority report that lists some 400 scientists who challenge Gore's assertions that the debate is over and the planet is in imminent danger. We don't expect any of the 400 to be invited to speak at California school assemblies or to submit materials for the textbooks.
"I find it disturbing," says Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, "that this mandate to teach this theory is not accompanied by a requirement that this discussion be science-based and include a critical analysis of all sides of the subject."
So do we, but McClintock forgets that, according to Gore, the debate is over.
We recently commented on the British government's decision to make Gore's opus, "An Inconvenient Truth," part of the British secondary school curriculum. The environmentalists were happy, if for no other reason than convincing impressionable children and future voters is easier than defending their theories before award-winning pioneers in the field.
Stewart Dimmock, a school governor in Kent, attacked the government's decision, saying it amounted to brainwashing of children. Justice Michael Burton of the High Court in London agreed in large part with Dimmock in a ruling that found that it was "common ground that it is not simply a science film . . . but that it is a political film."
Judge Burton found the devil in Gore's details, permitting the film to be shown to British students on the condition that it be accompanied by new guidance notes for teachers to balance Gore's "one-sided" views. Burton documented nine significant errors with Gore's film.
One of the claims Burton ridiculed was Gore's that polar bears were drowning while searching for ice not melted by global warming. The only drowned polar bears the court said it was aware of were four that died after a storm.
Schoolchildren, however, do not read British High Court decisions. Nor do they read the articles and opinions of award-winning skeptics. But they will listen to their teacher when she says the polar bears are drowning and their schools and homes will one day be under 20 feet of water.
Turning our public schools into Gore re-education camps and sending children to bed thinking we're all going to die is child abuse.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Global Warming: A lawmaker from the Silicon Valley wants to require "climate change" to be taught as "science" in all California public schools. Warmers can't convince the adults, but they can brainwash the children.
"You can't have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn't deal with the science behind climate change," says the bill's sponsor, California state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto. "This is a phenomenon of global importance, and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon."
So should adults such as Al Gore, who declares the debate over even as evidence debunking the junk science behind Simitian's proposal surfaces daily.
We don't know who'll write the climate change curriculum, but we'd guess it wouldn't be Dr. William Gray, professor emeritus of the atmospheric department at Colorado State University, who has become known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster.
"We're brainwashing our children," Gray told 300 meteorology students at the University of North Carolina last year. "They're going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."
This scientist and student of global warming said, "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major impact on global temperatures."
Climatology pioneer Reid Bryson, founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, says, "You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide."
Bryson agrees the Earth's temperature is rising but says man has little to do with it. "Of course it's going up," he says. "It has gone up since the early 1800s, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air."
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has released a minority report that lists some 400 scientists who challenge Gore's assertions that the debate is over and the planet is in imminent danger. We don't expect any of the 400 to be invited to speak at California school assemblies or to submit materials for the textbooks.
"I find it disturbing," says Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, "that this mandate to teach this theory is not accompanied by a requirement that this discussion be science-based and include a critical analysis of all sides of the subject."
So do we, but McClintock forgets that, according to Gore, the debate is over.
We recently commented on the British government's decision to make Gore's opus, "An Inconvenient Truth," part of the British secondary school curriculum. The environmentalists were happy, if for no other reason than convincing impressionable children and future voters is easier than defending their theories before award-winning pioneers in the field.
Stewart Dimmock, a school governor in Kent, attacked the government's decision, saying it amounted to brainwashing of children. Justice Michael Burton of the High Court in London agreed in large part with Dimmock in a ruling that found that it was "common ground that it is not simply a science film . . . but that it is a political film."
Judge Burton found the devil in Gore's details, permitting the film to be shown to British students on the condition that it be accompanied by new guidance notes for teachers to balance Gore's "one-sided" views. Burton documented nine significant errors with Gore's film.
One of the claims Burton ridiculed was Gore's that polar bears were drowning while searching for ice not melted by global warming. The only drowned polar bears the court said it was aware of were four that died after a storm.
Schoolchildren, however, do not read British High Court decisions. Nor do they read the articles and opinions of award-winning skeptics. But they will listen to their teacher when she says the polar bears are drowning and their schools and homes will one day be under 20 feet of water.
Turning our public schools into Gore re-education camps and sending children to bed thinking we're all going to die is child abuse.