Category Archives: Education

Is Yoko Ono smarter than a 4th grader?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Guest post by David Middleton First up: Yoko Ono and friends… ‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York John Lennon’s son Sean Lennon, actress Debra Winger, songstress Natalie Merchant and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Education, Energy, Fracking, Humor, natural gas | Tagged , , , , , , , | 105 Comments

Pilot video for a series: Bill Scientific – “The Greenhouse Effect”

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Guest post by Bill DiPuccio, Science Teacher Let’s face it, high school science videos can be boring and ineffective. I like my science with a twist of comic exaggeration. So I decided to produce a video with enough humor to … Continue reading →

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Monckton in a rift with Union college Earth scientist and activist

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

Readers may recall this piece Monckton’s Schenectady showdown in which he schools a number of students despite “en-masse” collections (to use Donald Rodbell’s words) of naysayers. Mr. Rodbell and Erin Delman, pictured below, wrote this essay (which I’ve excerpted below) … Continue reading →

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Fake moral outrage translated to smear: media upset that students can choose to take an elective course on climate change at Carleton

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

More Fakegate fallout. On February 28, 2012, the report Climate Change Denial in the Classroom was issued by the Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism of the Centre for Inquiry (Canada) (CFI). The related news release, Climate Change Denial … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, Carbon sequestration, Citizen science, Climate data, clouds, Cosmic rays, dust storms, Earth, Education, Energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, Forecasting, geothermal energy, Global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, Modeling, Oceans, PDO, Science, Sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 132 Comments

Comparing climate skepticism to “creationism” in the classroom

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Alternate title: Science education gets Gleicked From AAAS: “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 … Continue reading →

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New AGU endorsed climate survey for educators – a bit odd

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

People send me stuff. This arrived today in my inbox. This anonymous survey (open to anyone) was announced via the American Geophysical Union mailing list, done by the National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA, and also available at their website) … Continue reading →

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Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, Cosmic rays, Earth, Education, ENSO, Modeling, Oceans, Radiation, Rainfall, Sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

Introducing the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page The US Weather History page includes temperature, precipitation and snowfall graphs and graphics covering the prior year in the United States. It will soon be … Continue reading →

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New bill seeks to protect skeptical educators

Posted on February 6, 2011 by

From Wired Magazine, an example of how skeptical  views on climate change have now become mainstream enough to earn a level of protection when educators want to explore both sides of the issue. It is unfortunate that Wired magazine chose … Continue reading →

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College students lack scientific literacy, study finds

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

After reading this I asked myself: Is it any wonder college students get sucked in to emotionally based eco-causes/NGO’s that spout claims based on questionable science?  This troubling press release comes from Michigan State University. A link to the full … Continue reading →

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Naked bodies and a new Messiah

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

Guest post by Robert Zimmerman If anyone had any doubt that the global warming movement is undergoing a serious collapse, this so-called news article from Spiegel Online, entitled “Naked bodies and a new Messiah: Green groups are trying to sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Climate News, Climate_change, Education, Environment, media, Opinion, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 107 Comments

AIP and AAU call for free public access to the results of the publicly funded research

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

This is a breath of fresh air for me, because as we’ve seen time and again, often we get the press release on a paper, but not the paper itself, as it is often hidden behind journal membership rules or … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Science | 52 Comments

NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page

Posted on November 3, 2009 by

Hadley CRU isn’t the only government agency that deletes web content related to climate. NOAA/NWS Southern Region Headquarters has gotten into the act. An interesting thing happened today. NOAA deleted an educational web page about an experiment you can do … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Ridiculae | 143 Comments

UK: Schooling green costs a lot of green

Posted on August 22, 2009 by

From The Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2009 By Richard Savill A state school in Waterlooville, Hampshire, has been accused of potentially creating a “back-door selection” system by introducing a compulsory ‘eco-friendly’ uniform costing about £100 ($165 USD) Oaklands Roman Catholic … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Ridiculae | 69 Comments

A Gathering of “Skeptics”

Posted on October 24, 2008 by

Posted by Dee Norris Mark your calendars. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change returns to New York City on March 8th, 2009. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will serve as a platform for scientists and policy analysts … Continue reading →

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An Inconvenient Youth – Updated

Posted on September 8, 2008 by

Posted by Dee Norris Teach children the path to follow, and even when they are old, they will not stray from it. (Proverbs 22:6) Childhood indoctrination.  It’s a dirty word.  Hitler did it.  Stalin did it.  It can never happen … Continue reading →

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