By Andrew Follett
Three senior House Democrats asked U.S. teachers Monday to destroy a book written by climate scientists challenging the environmentalist view of global warming.
The Democrats were responding to a campaign by the conservative Heartland Institute copies of the 2015 book, “Why Climate Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” to about 200,000 science teachers. Democratic Reps. Bobby Scott of the Committee on Education, Raúl M. Grijalva of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Eddie Bernice Johnson of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology all issued a statement telling teachers to trash the book.
“Public school classrooms are no place for anti-science propaganda, and I encourage every teacher to toss these materials in the recycling bin,” Scott said. “If the Heartland Institute and other climate deniers want to push a false agenda on global warming, our nation’s schools are an inappropriate place to drive that agenda.”
The book’s three authors all hold doctorates and taught climate or related science at the university level. The book was written by former Arizona State University climatologist Dr. Craig D. Idso, James Cook University marine geology and paleontology professor Robert M. Carter, and University of Virginia environmental scientist Dr. Fred Singer.
Grijalv accused the scientists of “lying to children about the world we live in to further corporate polluter profits” and said that doing so was “cruel.” Johnson stated that the scientists had sent “scientifically inaccurate materials on climate change to public school teachers across the country” at the behest of ominous right wing donors and the Charles and David Koch brothers.
The best way to get adults to act like environmentalists is by brainwashing their children, according to research published by Oregon State University. Talking to kids about global warming caused their parents to use less energy and act more like environmentalists. The research was run on was run on 30 Girl Scout troops in northern California and had a “lasting impact on family energy consumption” for at least eight months after the end of the program.
Based on the study’s success, the researchers are now disseminating the curriculum to Girl Scout leaders around the country and attempting to adapt it to other groups of kids, including schools and youth-focused organizations such as 4-H with the help of other universities, such as Stanford. The research was financially supported by government grants.
Burn, baby,burn.
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/public/cms/70/92/570/723/yvlpFN_web.jpg
All the climate priests are doing is “Burnin’ for you”
But if you recommend “recycling” the Koran, that’s hate speech.
Book burning has a long tradition, going back to about 700 BC. Except for a few cases of accidental burning where the burning of books was an unintended consequence such as Caesar’s burning of Alexandria and the destruction of Pompeii by a volcano, it was in every case performed to suppress ideas by authoritarians afraid of dissent – that is to say, Fascists.
Upon TX State Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson’s being elected to the US House, a member of the Texas House said to a member of the US House: Our gain is your loss.
Has this politician actually passed the bar exam (or college prep English)?
…referring to Ms Johnson…
Seems insane.
Robert Anton Wilson never burned a book in his life. Why did the USA burn Wilhelm Reich’s books, and why did RAW take such offense, and go on to write past it…..why are Americans referencing Nazi efforts, when Reich was “burned” and frozen out of existence in the 50’s, in Ben Franklin’s Neighbourhood? Need a bigger Bell in Philly? Fix your country people. Trump only rang the small bell. He can’t fix nothing. Americans can do this together. Make Her sane by the close of 2018, and go for greatness after Xmas?
I cut-up a novel the other night, to make a poem, and tossed the remains in the trash.
When my sister was in grade 9 I cut the heads off a bunch of mining executive’s photographs from a trade journal Dad had lying around and glued them over the heads of her New Kids On The Block posters.
Climate is scary, and so is seeing your sister worship a boyband.
Every generation has some fake shit to tax them. Be free.
The Earth will endure. We will persist.
The only books I burned were my school scribblers every year. British tradition? American? Just kids, being impulsive? German?
Lots of solid burns going round, the trolls on each side are happy. It is all good. The elites will handle it while we melt down over bullshit memes.
Say what?
Either too many drugs or not enough.
Either/or choices offers us no middle ground to work from. What drugs do you use Paul, and how are they interfering with your reading our comment? Are you getting enough sleep Paul? Sleep is better than any drug. How you find your balance point, good luck.
Take a long, hard look at the faces of the 3 socialist democrats at the beginning of this article.
These are the faces of modern fascism in America…..
In his book, Jonah Goldberg characterizes this political movement as “fascism with a happy face.”..
I am confused. Are they fascists or socialists?
Much the same thing. Call them National Socialists.
Steve Borodin:
Your daft response to urederra demonstrates that your confusion is greater than his/hers and is based in complete ignorance of political definitions.
Richard
Wiki does not help.
I took this screenie from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party (Redirected from National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
http://oi68.tinypic.com/b8u6mg.jpg
Just in case the pic is not shown, it says:
Ideology: National Socialism Pan-Germanism Social Conservatism.
Political position: Far-right.
So, national socialism is far-right.
… and then they talk about propaganda and indoctrination.
fascists are socialists
Socialists define all good things as part of their religion, and all bad things as part of the far right. (NOTE: In the socialist religion, those who are bad are all far-right. There is no such thing as the near-right.)
Over the years, just about everybody from Hitler to Stalin to the Boy Scouts to the Red Cross have been called ” facist”. It is no longer a just noun. It is an adjective meaning intolerant. Thus, the student shouting down a conservative speaker is as much a facist as a guy wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat who gets in the face of pro- choice woman. Overused and now meaningless.
Not only did they burn Reich’s books and throw him in prison, he woke up dead one morning while there. Goes in healthy comes out dead.
The Bible is unscientific. Get the kids to pitch it in the fire Bernice. C’mon Raul pitch in. Step up Bobby. I dare ya.
No one is teaching from the Bible in public schools. That was outlawed decades ago.
Now if we could get them to stop teaching Islam.
Agreed.
I wonder if these kids their teachers want to teach about the environment by asking them to destroy books have been raised with disposable cellulose diapers or with reusable gauze ones.
There is a long list of climate bullies behaving badly. I’m sure this one will make the list.
Climate Bullies Gone Wild; Caught on Tape and Print
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/climate-bullies-gone-wild-caught-on-tape-and-print/
The good news is things which are scientifically inaccurate are often easy to prove as such through the scientific method, see for example much of climate ‘science ‘
So I have to wonder why these three have not done so , could it be they not read the book or that in reality they cannot do this because ????
Members of the Black Congressional Caucus do not have the intelligence to use their one allocated Brain Cell in coherent thought. This is not a racist comment as there are many Black Republicans who are denied membership in the CBC because it is in fact a Democrat Institution of Uncle Toms for the Democrat Party.
As a very smart person once asked:
If racism is the problem, how can racism be the solution?
Remind me, what type of organisation was previously promoting book burning?
Oxymoron – they got the statement correct, just the object of their bigotry wrong. I have been shamed by the idiot scott for years. But the other 2 are fortunately other state’s problems.
Burning books is just a way to build up coals, the real plan always involves burning the author.
Today’s school schedule begins with a book burning at 9 am and an instructional video on lynching in place of science class. Tardy slips will be issued if you are late. Auditions for the global warming play will be later this week.
The Democrat’s Hall of Shame.
Then they goose-stepped down the street arm-in-arm and knocked out the glass out of, and looted Jewish businesses.
https://www.google.at/search?q=hunting+and+fishing+in+windparks&oq=hunting+and+fishing+in+windparks&aqs=chrome.
The research was run on was run on 30 Girl Scout troops in northern California and had a “lasting impact on family energy consumption” for at least eight months after the end of the program.
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Recherche says nowadays scouting of windparks is more done by drones than by Girl Scout troops; maybe because there’s less hunting than fishing in windparks.
https://www.google.at/search?q=scouting+windparks&oq=scouting+windparks&aqs=chrome.
I don’t know the others but Grijalva is a known communist. He’s so far off the norm he makes Bamma look moderate. So I’m not surprised.
Funny how such people always find a warm welcome in the Democrat party.
Shudder….convulse….perspire….gag…..vomit. These people are disgusting. They are scientifically illiterate to begin with and political hacks to end with.
A number of years ago I was participating in Career Day at a local school, telling the children what it was like to be a weatherman (not on TV type). One of the teachers asked me (sotto voce) if what he had been hearing about global warming increasing the number of hurricanes was true. When I assured him that the news reports were greatly exaggerated and that we won’t see any significant change in hurricanes (especially above the background noise) anytime soon, he was very much relieved. I think the Heartland’s efforts might find fertile ground, at least among some open-minded teachers.
Re: fascism vs socialism- Benito Mussolini was a socialist, but when he felt the socialist parties in Italy were insufficient, he founded the Fascist Party. Paul Joseph Goebbels was an ardent socialist but was disenchanted with the Socialist Party in Germany, so he joined Hitler’s National Socialist Party. And Sir Oswald Mosley was the youngest Cabinet member in Ramsey MacDonald’s Labor Government. He thought MacDonald too timid and broke with Labor to form the British Union of Fascists. Thus fascism is the extreme left-wing of socialism. QED
Who was it that said: Communists are socialists in a hurry.
I am assuming that the Northern California Girl Scouts that they (Oregon State study) refer to are about as far north as San Francisco, or maybe Santa Rosa. Go much further north and they’ll find another attitude and study outcome. Dig into the study and you will likely find it is significantly by the San Francisco culture.
I liked the part about targeting 4-H kids. Yep, go ahead and waste their resources on trying to indoctrinate the rural kids, and their parents.
It would be interesting to see their future success rate.
There is a precedent of sorts. There was a famous case (I cant remember the name now) that dealt with introducing a book contrary to evolution. During a lengthy and quite detailed trial the judge ruled the school committee was trying to introduce religion into the science curriculum and the book was removed from the science curriculum.
The reason intelligent design lost was they could only get one scientist to support their case and he was an exceptionally poor witness and the book in question proved to be a religious text that had been modified to sound scientific.
The book they are trying to burn has a coherent scientific argument supported by evidence and many scientists. Ironically people like these book burners have been successful in forcing their religion/dogma/politics into a scientific debate, which is what the Intelligent Design folks could only dream about.
Two of the three are members of the Congressional Black Caucus – a collection of some of the most ignorant and useless members of Congress. They can be depended on to spout whatever nonsense their White Democrat Masters desire; on cue and with great enthusiasm, especially on topics of which they have not one iota of knowledge! I’m also eagerly awaiting the news that Guam has tipped over due to overpopulation on a US Naval Base.