This isn’t science. It is politically-generated propaganda disguised as education.
The “science” on climate change is hardly settled and therein we find a terrible loss for students who could actually learn the concepts of data review, debate, and fact-based conclusion. Instead, the debate is being terminated, minds are being closed, and the will of the federal government agencies responsible for dictating the science curriculum is being force-fed in the same manner as all dictatorial regimes throughout history.
Actual science on the subject of the earth’s climate indicates human intervention is little more than arrogance. The earth has been around for over four billion years. In the that great time span, its climate has altered dramatically from one extreme to the other – without ANY human influence.
Since 1880 (when temps were still cooler than normal following the “Little Ice Age”) the earth’s surface climate temperature has risen by as much as a little over one degree – a temperature that is LOWER than it was during much of the Middle Ages. A growing number of scientists are looking to such things as solar activity and the naturally occurring El Niño and La Niña warming and cooling patterns as far more dominant influences upon global temperatures than anything human beings could do.
And yet, how will young minds raise their hands and question the dogma of Climate Change if instructors never present the issue with the facts that the earth has been warmer in the past than it is now, or that there are very credible scientists who dispute the theory that humankind has a significant influence on the earth’s climate?
Not so long ago, science classes taught students about the Ice Age that covered much of the earth and the eventual warming that was seen as a very GOOD thing. How is it the earth went about its business engaged in such climate extremes without a single SUV to be blamed for it? Today science classes all but ignore the fact of the Ice Age, and focus instead on the Industrial Age and then point to innovation and human development as evil things that are killing the earth.
It’s rubbish of course, and hardly resembles anything remotely scientific, but sadly it is what now passes for “science” in our public schools. Your children and grandchildren are being placed into the meat-grinder of indoctrination where they are taught to question nothing and obey everything dictated to them by a central authority…
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