This request came in from WUWT reader Michael, who’s concerned that “My daughter’s fifth grade class is currently being indoctrinated regarding “human caused” climate change.” and he wants to know what film might be a good response.
My daughter’s fifth grade class is currently being indoctrinated regarding “human caused” climate change. Her teacher sent home a note informing parents that she will be screening CNN’s Planet in Peril, which she described as “fairly objective”.
Is there a good film I could recommend the teacher to show to provide balance to my daughter’s class. Any other assistance with a response to her teacher would be most appreciated. Below is the email from my daughter’s teacher.
Thanks,
Michael
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Hello Parents,
I want to make you aware of a documentary we are watching in 5th grade. It is produced by CNN and is called “Planet in Peril.” This video is meant to introduce students to the idea that the earth is warming and that all effects of this warming has a ripple effect. In my view, it is fairly objective, and attempts to examine whether this problem is man-made or not.
My intent is to make students aware of the scientific research that is out there, and encourage them to do their own research on an aspect of this science that interests them.
Please communicate any concerns you have about this as soon as possible. I am happy to make any adaptations for your child tailored to your concerns.
Thank you,
Mrs. A
5th Grade General Studies
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My first thought would be this video from Dr. David Evans,
Another would be the 50 to 1 video:
I’m sure readers can suggest other videos.
Some German satire (with subtitles)
and some Austrian rap.
ahhh, crosspatch has already recommended it, but Baliunas is worth watching twice
there isn’t one. however the power of nightmares by adam curtis shows how the power of nightmares is used to extract money and keep power. Climate terrorism is the new ‘nightmare’ [or religion in an age of religious skepticism] so we just need a new version of that focusing on climate nightmares as a device for extracting wealth and keeping power climate as the new religion.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaLPFayD8FA
Secrets of the Tribe… http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20723644bYDp46sP?h1=Secrets+of+the+Tribe
It’s a story of Anthropologists (Scientists) behaving badly. The story centers around the anthropologists who work with the Yanomami tribe. I do suggest you watch it first to make sure you are comfortable with it. It includes data manipulation/fabrication, anthropologists interacting unethically with tribal members (including sex allegations and pedophilia), and the intentional introduction of disease within some of the tribes (Genocide). If science can be perverted in one field, it can be in another.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1567736/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
“The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and ’70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this “virgin” society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting.”
– Written by Sundance Film Festival
contd…in modern politics “those with the darkest nightmares become the most powerful’ which today is climate nightmares.
Let me tack on to my comment of Secrets of the Tribe as I’m watching it now. There are parts of the movie that will not be appropriate for a 5th grader. I believe there are valuable excerpts in it but they would be too young for some of the things discussed for it to be shown in it’s entirety.
Michael
Just tell your daughter despite all the AGW hype, earth is still in an ice age. This is why the Arctic and Southern Oceans are still frozen, and 43% of the world’s land is still covered with snow and ice on winter. Warm climate is good for agriculture and biodiversity. The Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today. The Vikings were farming in Greenland during the MWP. When the Little Ice Age came, they starved to death. The greatest biodiversity is found in tropical rain forests, which have warm climate. The predicted catastrophes of AGW have no basis in history and science.
Parents are the best teacher to their kids. Good luck.
Just be a parent your child can trust and prepare them before they are in 5th grade. Children are not stupid. In my opinion it is not a school (teacher) problem but a homeschool (parents) problem.
Classroom for kids in danish, about CO2 circuit…
http://youtu.be/KPgDjoUeiK4
“We live in the coldest period of the last 10.000 years” , says
glasiologist, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, who take us back in time, to the Grenland icecores and reveals the secrets from the past….
This might be worth showing …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU
Unstoppable Solar Cycles…
CO2 is Not a Pollutant…
Global warming activists portray CO2 as a dangerous pollutant that needs to be regulated and reduced. Nothing could be further from the truth. This video pokes fun at claims that CO2 is harmful and shows its many beneficial uses.
The Carbon Cycle,Carbon Dioxide -Cycle (CO2)…
Lord Monckton – adresses a Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming…
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/co2+youtube/12cc85392ebea140?projector=1
CO2 Contributed by Human Activity: 12 to 15 ppmv…
Carbon Dioxide: The Breath of Life…
http://youtu.be/LPNiBVU2QIA
Actually I think the 5th grade teacher should be commended for emailing parents about the film. It was the correct thing to do.
I have never received such an email from teachers. And my 7th grader was recently shown ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ again for the umpteenth time.
I have compiled 26 videos here:
Global Warming Videos
@SØREN BUNDGAARD
Some nice, short videos there.
Brief and to the point.
We had this issue with our children’s school 6 or 7 years ago. They were making all the students watch “An Inconvenient Truth” . Thankfully, the science teacher took my son’s advice and also made them watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle” as well.
ups!
Lord Monckton – adresses a Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming…
http://youtu.be/wuj_tlRRQdQ
I tend to be more succesful teaching my family members how to spot propaganda. After that, they bring the bullshit to me as trophies rather than me having to point it out to them.
Sorry, wrong link. Here’s the correct one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4XPVPJwBY&list=UUTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ