Friday Funny: Al Gore's new science low – burning dolls

That little girl is absolutely right about one thing, [government funded] clean energy is a no-brainer.

Robin says:
November 23, 2012 at 8:31 am
Just a reminder that Sustainability is to be the major focus of classwork in the new curricula being created in the US to implement what is being called the Common Core State Standards Initiative or CCSSI as I call it. It is interdisciplinary and lends itself to the desired problem-based learning and project-based learning. This was one of the reasons the Literacy/ English Progressions call for a focus on nonfiction.
And ‘sustainability’ is a code word for Agenda 21. Perhaps some work needs to be done to highlight the individuals driving this agenda.
We are not the desired audience. So somehow we need to reach their desired audience and show them how they are being used by rich power hungry adults trying to obtain more power and wealth.

I saw this clip when I tuned into the Gorothon for about ten minutes, it made me laugh. If only it had a rifftrax. It is almost as good as their “More Dangerous than Dynamite” short where they make fun of an old black and white video about dry cleaning your clothes at home using gasoline.

All of society will pay for the current indoctrination, of the young, to multiple myths.
Our children are graduating, the various levels of education, with a firm conviction, that Man is insignificant in the universe, and only undisturbed “nature” has any validity. We are pumping out “bird counters” at an alarming rate, who have no production skills. These beginning adults are competing with many thousands, of similarly trained others, for jobs. Most end up on the dole or working in car washes.
There is no reason to blame the children, as they are just flowing with the current created by adults, for political and ideological gains. Criminal abuse which will be our own demise. GK

She’s clearly a clever girl and her acting is immensely natural and pleasant. Still, a sane viewer can’t overlook that this girl – and probably millions of older folks – have been totally brainwashed and nothing whatsoever about the things she is saying and showing has been subjected to her own independent scrutiny.
This clip is a combination of all kinds of political correctness. Not only we hear the politically correct pseudoscience about the dirty weather and the man-made climate but the ultimate “scientist of the future” who explains it just happens to be a black girl. It’s not impossible, just very unlikely, that a black girl would really have the best ideas about the climate, weather, and their relationship among her contemporaries.
But this is a part of the training – people are “demanded” to believe things even though they look (increasingly) unlikely. It’s a part of the warmist religion, too. One is proud about believing implausible things. The more implausible an assertion the AGW enthusiasts believe is, the more proud they are about their belief.

Corruption of a minor, IMO.

Furthermore no standard speaks of having the “correct” value, attitude or belief. Sounds like some folks here r making the same rhetorical mistake that AGWers make. Speak platitudes not facts but be sure to make the platitudes sound like fact bites.

Here is a sample of the rigour now facing children.
Know multiplication facts thru 12 by the end of 3rd grade.
Count to 100 by ones and 10’s by the end of kgt.
Know subtraction facts 1 thru 5 by the end of kgt.
Know division using 2-digit divisor with remainder by the end of 4th grade.
Go read them for yourself before speaking thru your hat.

Throughout history people pushing ideologies have recognized the role of controlling education of the very young.
St. Ignatius of Loyola understood the permanent impression that the years of childhood make on a person when he said, “Give me the first seven years, and I’ll give you the man.” Adolf Hitler wrote about his objectives for the Hitler Youth program, “My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that.” Some may consider these as extreme examples of what is happening in our schools today. Many others don’t.
I remember talking with a Soviet student visiting our university on an exchange visit. I asked him what he was studying. He said Highway Engineering. I asked him why he chose that. He replied “Choose?”

Pamela-first of all the term “rigorous” itself is a defined term created by Lauren Resnick referring to open-ended problem solving where there is no explicit answer.
Secondly the President, Ed Week, and the Hewlett Foundation have all agreed that CCSSI is not the same as the common core they are referring to. That CCSSI was just a political scam to justify changing the focus of the classroom and get different kinds of measuring assessments to obscure the nonacademic focus. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/didnt-the-president-just-admit-ccssi-was-a-ruse-to-change-classroom-interactions/ explains what President Obama and Ed Week have said more than once.
The actual classroom implementation and curricula I have seen are all dominated by the 21st century skills movement which did not shut down despite claiming to do so. That was merely a feint because P21 had garnered so much negative publicity. If you compare p21’s classroom activities to the Standard it is supposedly based on you see just what an illusion those standards are.
National Science Foundation has said repeatedly that Sustainability is to be a huge feature of its K-12 initiatives. Same with NOAA. There is also an NSF funded Climate Literacy Network preparing materials.
I have read the Standards but more importantly I have read all the other actual implementation documents that govern what can go on in the classroom. The Standards language itself is just a political ploy to go after the rational mind.
If you want a real feel for what is expected in the classroom read the “Vision for the College, Career and Civic Life C3): Framework for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards CCSSO put out last week. It laid out directly the kind of vision I have previously been having to track to the small but binding print in collateral official documents.
And it picks up Sustainability as a prime example of what it has in mind.

@CD (@CD153) says:
>…Gore has brainwashed and indoctrinated his faithful flock by taking advantage of their scientific illiteracy.
I often run into scientific illiteracy in my work and it is much more common than one might expect. What people have is para-scientific knowledge. They can repeat many scientific terms but not think critically about them in properly constructed sentences that lead to logical conclusions. What people do is marshall a number of factoids then having already decided on what they prove, try to work out a reasonable concatenation of those ‘oids to arrive at the pre-determined conclusion. A great deal of ‘climate science’ appears to be based on this method. The blogosphere filled with confident voices displaying para-scientific knowledge reinforced by pre-cooked recipies for getting a pre-determined result.

Separate entities are developing their own pet lists of Science standards but these entities are not part of the ccss initiative. Like I said read the ccss before you rattle off what u think they say.

Thanks for setting the record straight Pamela-speaking as the Husband of a retired English
Teacher…