Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Senator Inhofe, a steadfast climate skeptic, has raised concerns about “brainwashing” of kids to convince them to worry about climate change.
In his grandchild’s question — ‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’— Sen. Jim Inhofe sees ‘brainwashing’
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The senator, speaking last week on the syndicated Eric Metaxas radio show, said his granddaughter once asked him, “Popi, why is it you don’t understand global warming?”
Here’s the full quote:
You know, our kids are being brainwashed? I never forget because I was the first one back in 2002 to tell the truth about the global warming stuff and all of that. And my own granddaughter came home one day and said “Popi — see “I” is for Inhofe, so it’s Momi and Popi, okay? — Popi, why is it you don’t understand global warming?” I did some checking and Eric, the stuff that they teach our kids nowadays, you have to un-brainwash them when they get out.
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The following is the sound track from the show;
https://soundcloud.com/the-eric-metaxas-show/penny-nance-jerry-mollen-senator-inhofe
(Senator Inhofe joins the show around 30 minutes into the sound track)
I have to say I agree with Senator Inhofe. I have seen plenty of examples of children repeating harmful social conditioning – nonsense about not defending yourself against bullies, and of course, lessons about the alleged dangers of “climate change” – saying things like “if you drop any plastic on the ground the animals will die, it has to all go in the recycling”.
For parents, trying to undo this damage is a nightmare. If they push too far, and their child starts disagreeing in public with what is being taught, the child just receives more bullying to conform. But doing nothing is also not an option.
The people who traumatise our children also publicly wonder why so many turn to drugs. It should be obvious. I mean, if authority figures convince a child the world is about to end, that it is all their parent’s fault, that there is nothing they can do to avoid a horrible death, what do you say to those same children, to convince them to do their homework?
Not every teacher is participating in this harmful brainwashing – according to a recent study, many teachers are courageously risking their careers and livelihoods to try to lead the children in their charge towards a more balanced view of the world.
What is scary is Finland is top or near top in education in the world, and I still wouldn’t just allow the state to imbue them with someone else’s principles and beliefs.
In the US.. given what is going on in many states for years and what is happening now, I’d flee the country, absolutely no overstatement there, it was one of the reasons I left Ireland, education there has plummeted.
Bill gates’ common core is is crippling kids
Ontario Canada is on fire with ads
https://youtu.be/4igQKdjqIKU
Another
https://youtu.be/zYMiATXOY1c
This is nothing show of spreading fear to push an agenda, it’s almost the definition of terrorism FFS
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I’m getting cramps from holding my farts.
She is now showing her grandmother how to suck eggs.
Child abuse
That video I watched was depressing especially the last child. He really would have no understanding of the science. He was used to deliver someone else’s message. Disgusting child abuse.
Can we lose the labels ‘climate change denier’ …… ‘climate change skeptic’ ? Neither is accurate these days. Almost no one is denying that the climate changes.
What is denied is that: (i) we live in a Mary Poppins world – ‘practically perfect in everyway’ and (ii) the earth’s climate system is on the brink of instability, a tipping point. There is no evidence for either of these assertions.
How about ‘climate change proponent’ making habitable the vast northen land masses in Asia and North America (Go Canada!). How about the greening of the earth (Go plants!). I like the positive vibe.
Well, I’m afraid that we can’t, because the Oxford dictionary definition clearly sets out the definitions – e.g. it states for denialist:
“A person who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of scientific or historical evidence:
‘the small minority of very vocal climate change denialists’”
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/denialist
Hey Griff,when will you notice that the hundreds of climate models to year 2100 is evidence of pseudoscience?
Go look up the SCIENTIFIC METHOD in your precious dictionary.
Here it is from your own dictionary:
Scientific Method,
“A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses: criticism is the backbone of the scientific method [in plural]: the process is based on presently valid scientific methods”
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/scientific-method?q=Scientific+Method
Climate Models to year 2100 are worthless since they can’t be tested. The entire AGW conjecture is highly dependent on these unverifiable modeling runs which as loaded with assumptions and has gaping holes in them on various parts of climate phenomenon.
Wake up Griff,drop the warmist babblings and get rational on this topic.
I recommend that if you ever meet myself, my wife or my children and grandchildren in person Griff you refrain from referring to us as ‘deniers’ or ‘denialists’, with their known connotations of Holocaust denial and support for Naziism.
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Mischaracterizing and misrepresenting your opponent with no objection is easy when the main stream media is effectively your own PR firm.
Yes those ads are brought to us by the true believers in the Ontario Government, a government that claims that ads are paid for by them instead of by the people of Ontario at the behest of the true believers.
I for one don’t need some 8 year old being trotted out to tell me about the world when all they are doing is spouting what they have been told by the fruit fly PHD.
That Suzuki piece was part of a long program held remotely with many school children. This man is killing our children – and getting very rich doing it!
I sort of saw this coming when my daughter was little, and I essentially taught her about brainwashing as a defense . . lots of classic stories are useful for this.
For parents, trying to undo this damage….
In my experience the kids bring it home…and the parents start to believe it too..
But one good thing…..global warming is so yesterday…most of the kids are over it
I hope you are right because they are targeting them at 4 years old now.
I grew up on “The Population Bomb” and “Silent Spring” and the rest of the doomsday propaganda and it definately negatively impacted my life–why bother to plan for the future when there isn’t going to be any? Since then I have seen this same lone fed to my children in school and it infuriates me.
I once saw my oldest daughter have a panic attack at the sight of clouds of steam arising from a power plant on a chilly morning. She was convinced that all of the plants and animals were going to die and crying hysterically. I spent a long time calming her down and explaining that water vapor is not pollution and the biosphere is actually much healthier now than it has been for a century.
Don’t be deceived. Water vapor is a first-order cause of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
That said, the real threat to flora and fauna are windmill and solar farms, and other low-density energy conversion solutions, that occupy large tracts of land thereby corrupting the environment and displacing Bambi on unprecedented scales with marginal energy returns. However, the green[backs] are good.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/20/oregon-school-board-bans-books-that-question-clima/
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A liberal orthodoxy that denies individual dignity (e.g. [class] diversity), denies human rights and evolution (from conception), and denies dabbling in scientific mysticism (i.e. conflation of logical domains). Whatever happened to “separation of Church and State”?
The concept of individual human dignity has intellectual roots in monotheism. Be wary of blanket criticisms. 🙂
It could be worse.
“The people who traumatise our children also publicly wonder why so many turn to drugs. It should be obvious. I mean, if authority figures convince a child the world is about to end, that it is all their parent’s fault, that there is nothing they can do to avoid a horrible death, what do you say to those same children, to convince them to do their homework?”
I was trying to imagine a teachers response if some of the kids would ask the teacher who just told them that the world was burning up, why should they bother learning anything if they were going to die soon.
We have a solution being discussed by Trump: School choice.
When parents are allowed to choose how to educate their kids, they will vote with their feet.
Exactly! Smart parents don’t send their kids to Marx-O-Crat indoctrination camps. (RE: Public schools)
It’s in high priced private schools too at least as invited speaker zealots collecting contact information from students while spouting warnings that have already been dis proven.
Sorry to say, I lived under Nazism, then Communism, where both regimes required that children not be present when parents talked against the party line. Brainwashing of the ultimate sort, for a child’s utterance could cost a parent’s life. Sorry again to say that this adopted country, USA, seems progressing in that direction. One must be careful speaking to a child, adolescent, young adult, or young parents; they think one is stupid, uninformed about global climate change. A whole generation brainwashed, lacks the understanding the difference between climate and weather, never mind “global.” The environmental education strains relationships among generations. Even an innocent question such as “when did the climate stopped changing?” is perceived as an insult. I guess the teachers’ unions take care of keeping the teachers in-line.
I remember doing air raid drills in elementary school. All part of the fear campaign against the godless communist Soviet Union. Even at that age I was intelligent enough to know that “duck and cover” wasn’t going to save me from a nuclear blast.
There has to be a boogeyman and right now it’s climate change.
It depends on how close the blast is. Duck and cover may very well save your life. Lots of people lived after the Hiroshima blast because they had something substantial between them and the fireball. Even close in to ground zero.
I read the book “Hiroshima” when I was ten years old. It was eye-opening.
It clearly is specific issue brainwashing. There is little doubt that the child not would have any grasp of the physics involved. Therefore the only reason for the child to query grandpa is that the child is brainwashed. Scary.
I find Inhofe’s granddaughter’s wording interesting;
‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’
As though it is just a simple matter of clearing up Popi’s confusion. That Popi is simply ignorant of the facts.
The source clearly does not understand that Inhofe has been educating himself on this subject for decades and could probably teach the child’s educator a thing or two on the subject.
What does it also say about the “educator’s” level of intelligence?
“‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’
As though it is just a simple matter of clearing up Popi’s confusion. That Popi is simply ignorant of the facts.”
That’s pretty common among alarmists. Many of them are so sure of the rightness of their position, that they rationalize the attitudes of skeptics as just being ignorant of the facts.
Or they go to the opposite extreme and think skeptics are deliberately trying to undermine a valid scientific theory.
That there are valid questions about the CAGW theory doesn’t even enter their minds. They don’t question it, so noone else should question it either, they think. Noone that knows anything, anyway. It’s what deluded people do to rationalize their positions: what doesn’t fit, is wrong.
Teachers tell students to resist peer pressure and make up their own minds… except regards climate change. then they tell kids they must listen to the consensus
I was going to say something students being told to resist peer pressure but you beat me to it.
It seems times have changed.
Now kids are being told to conform to the peer pressure (As long it is the Politically-Correctly formed peer pressure.).
I home-tutored my kids. Perfect? No. But better than being taught defuses. Let’s see. “Dumbes kid in mah in the class.” Given a C- by his 4th grade teacher. After home-tutoring, got an 800 on SAT II, tutored calculus at age 17 and went to the IvyLeague.
Ask your children’s math teacher, “Did you take College Algebra in college?” It yes, that means your child’s teacher is a math cumbo.
What it needs is a class action against climate science organisations for the entire cost of renewable energy the day the hundred months expires and we have not reached tipping point as claimed. They should also be made to use data that has never been modified after the date the first public claim had been made the science was beyond question as clearly if the science was beyond question on that date than any subsequent data changes have to be knowingly fraudulent.
That’s why the socialists / progressives have been taking over the school system. They have been working this angle since the 50’s.
When I was at school, they taught us how to think.
Now, they teach them what to think.
and many of them know that. I said to one of my classes (college level) last semester “you want self-driving electric vehicles and small houses, right” and the students replied “No! No one asks us what we want, they tell us what we want.”
The un-brainwashing must start at home. Let the children be taken in by some scam when they’re young – something simple and harmless like sn over-hyped toy. Then when it breaks, strategically remind them that you can’t believe everything people say without suffering the consequences. A few episodes like that will inoculate most of them for life. The current generation has been protected from suffering the consequences of their naivete — something that will bite them big time in the near future.
I hope he had a snowball easily accessible to prove to his granddaughter that there is no climate change.
He never said there is no climate change,why perpetuate the stupid warmist lie?