School lessons increasingly a target for climate skeptics
By MICHAEL MELIA 28 minutes ago
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut lawmaker wants to strike climate change from state science standards. A Virginia legislator worries teachers are indoctrinating students with their personal views on global warming. And an Oklahoma state senator wants educators to be able to introduce alternative ideas without fear of losing their jobs.
As climate change becomes a hotter topic in American classrooms, politicians around the country are pushing back against the scientific consensus that global warming is real and man-made.
Of the more than a dozen such measures proposed so far this year, some already have failed. But they have emerged this year in growing numbers, many of them inspired or directly encouraged by a pair of advocacy groups, the Discovery Institute and the Heartland Institute.
“You have to present two sides of the argument and allow the kids to deliberate,” said Republican state Sen. David Bullard of Oklahoma, a former high school geography teacher whose bill, based on model legislation from the Discovery Institute, ran into opposition from science teachers and went nowhere.
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So this Bullard, "guy" thinks that the Discovery Institute should be used has a model, since they use "intelligent design" ............................
These people are really dangerous, I guess he and others haven't been in the high country out west to see how the tree lines are moving higher......................
I support Micheal Mann the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University.
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