South Dakota to Teach Climate Change Denial in its Schools?
March 2, 2010 at 12:05 PM 2 comments
Teaching climate change denial in South Dakota is moving through the state legislature there:
South Dakota may soon make climate-change denial the law of the land, if an effort underway in the state legislature is successful. Via Brad Johnson, we learn that the state House of Representatives recently passed a new law calling for “balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota.”
The resolution, approved by a vote of 36-30, states that public schools should be required to teach students that “global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact” and that a variety of “climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics” could be changing the weather. Yes, that’s astrological, as in horoscopes. And as Brad Plumer points out, thermology involves the science of infrared body imaging. Not quite clear what role that might play in global warming.
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klem | March 2, 2010 at 12:31 PM
This is terrilble news. I want our children to continue to be greenwashed in school. I don’t want balance. I want them to grow up thinking that the left view of the world is the only view. How do we stop this legislation?
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ChrisH | March 2, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Next: Gravity, only a theory. Maybe the planet just sucks, right kiddoes?