Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate indoctrination begins at a very young age; “Arthur” is targeted at ages 4-8, “The Magic Schoolbus” is targeted at ages 3-10.
The Teen-Agers Fighting for Climate Justice
By Carolyn Kormann
July 22, 2018On Saturday, hundreds of teen-agers—loud, pensive, stubbornly determined—marched through Manhattan. They represented a movement that other teen-agers had started, last year, called Zero Hour. They were gravely concerned about politicians doing almost nothing for climate justice, and they had created a list of demands—including, most importantly, achieving negative carbon emissions by 2030.
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Juhal and Hu are both rising seniors, at Bronx Science and Stuyvesant High School, respectively. Both want to study computer science after they graduate and remembered first learning about climate change in “Arthur” and “The Magic School Bus” cartoons. Their biggest concern is sea-level rise. “Especially because we’re both from Queens,” Johal said. “We live on an island. It’s really scary to think it won’t exist in the future.” (By the end of the next decade, sea-level rise around Queens could be greater than a foot.)
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One of the speakers at the post-march rally was Leela Sotsky, who wore a bright-yellow-leather backpack and had long lavender nails. She called out one of her teachers at her high school in Fresh Meadows, Queens, where she will soon be a senior. “It was snowing in April, which is kind of odd,” she said. “He said it was evidence that global warming isn’t real. And I had to talk to him about it, explain that it was not evidence—that weather and climate are not the same.”
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Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-teen-agers-fighting-for-climate-justice
A 2017 Newsbusters post “Use Clean Energy or Monsters Will Eat You” has video clips of Magic Schoolbus children’s climate messaging.
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The “weather and climate aren’t the same” mantra is in storage right this moment, like it is every Summer.
It’ll be back in the Fall.
;-).
Yeah, we have noticed this in Britain too. It has been a glorious summer, and so the claims for Global Warming are back in force – beating claims of Climate Change by 10:1.
R
It is quite simple:
– Unusually high temperatures, no matter how brief and localised, are conclusive proof of global warming.
– Unusually low temperatures, no matter how prolonged and widespread, are just weather.
“By the end of the next decade, sea-level rise around Queens could be greater than a foot.)”
3mm/y * 10 y = 33 mm ; 1 foot = 30.5cm =304 mm.
Is being off by an order magnitude what passes for Bronx “science”.?
Depends on how a decade is counted. A decade can be any ten-year period. Start your decade earlier this year and the end of the next decade is 20 years away. Now their estimate is off by only 5 times.
SR
They also learned about the “Flat Earth” and the “Tooth Fairy” in the prestigious Journals, “Arthur” and “The Magic School Bus”.
Prestigious PEER REVIEWED Journals.
More like BEER Reviewed….lots of BEER!
In my country, there are childless adults being sent around the government primary schools to teach 5-10 year old children about sexual and gender diversity. I have seen the material they distribute. You could characterise it as being an army recruiting campaign. If it wasn’t sick, it would be weird.
Hitler Youth for leftist causes.
That was redundant.
The basic science of sexual identity has something to do with genetics and chromosomes……specifically XX for females, and XY for males, IIRC. That’s complicated enough for grammar school kids. Anyone telling them something else must be a science denier.
be nice if they had some alternative views presented in schools..
fairness and educational n all that.
silly me.
factualism
[fak-choo-uh-liz-uh m]
noun
emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts:
the factualism of scientific experiment.
The problem is the things they claim to be facts, aren’t.
OZ, when I was in grammar school I was learning to read, write, arithmetic, geography and basic science. All that filled the day. We didn’t have time for sex/ gender education or global warming. Problem we are facing is the the Left has so fully infiltrated our education system in Western democracies that they are using it in ways Hitler, Stalin and Mao could only dream of.
The science I learned was all FORWARD-looking, and PRAISING man’s scientific and technological advancements. Now, science is NEGATIVE. Science in the classroom today, is all about RESTRAINING technology and returning the planet to some “untouched” idealized state.
Students Protesting for Divestment of Fossil Fuels, Fossil Free, etc
Yet their signs, plastic buckets, clothes, shoes, glasses, knicker & bra elastic, mobile phones & even the path they stand on; are made with….. Fossil Fuels.
How come the “educated” don’t even know how their own life works ???
Energy crisis remedies – funny sketches by Carol Burnett (1984)
Korzybski – “the map is not the territory”
Let’s see. The tide gauge at the Battery shows a sea level rise of 1.4mm a year for the past 100+ years. Maybe their great-great grandchilden might have something to be concerned about. And yes, it has nothing to do with CO2. Stuff happens in a period after a global glaciation.
If the waters of oceans cover 71% of Earth’s surface and if the albedo of open (ice-free) ocean is .04 then what percentage of the full spectrum Total Solar Irradiance is absorbed by the oceans?
You forgot to factor in angle of incidence which changes based on where you are on the planet, the season and the time of day.
“You forgot to factor in…” the amount of cloud cover. And if I correctly understand the musings of Mr Willis, that amount might depend on the percentage of the full spectrum Total Solar Irradiance absorbed by the oceans?
I am sure that the “Magic School Bus” taught the young twits about isostasy, like how the sea appears to rise as the shore settles from the aftermath of the last glaciation.
That is one scary phrase: “Climate Justice” in the minds of indoctrinated leftists, but one can only imagine the extent of hypocrisy to act on it.
For most leftists, justice means that they are getting what they want.
The modifier, in this case climate, is merely the excuse du jour for getting what they want.
In my experience most people that have one of those “Coexist” bumper stickers on their car really mean “You have to Coexist with me. I don’t have to Coexist with you.”
They refuse to listen to what you are saying unless it is what they want to hear.
“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school it’s a wonder I can think at all”
Where’s Paul Simon when we need him?
Same story in Britain, and not only in school books. A wonderful kids’ comic, the Dandy, has been around for nigh on a century. In a recent story, Black Bob the sheepdog sniffed out some (boo! Hiss!) industrialists aiming to build a (boo! Hiss!) power station. The happy ending showed the green valley bristling with dozens of elegant white wind turbines.
These Watermelons are indoctrinating our children.
…And the migrant North Korean slave labor that assembled the wind turbines captured Black Bob and cooked him for dinner upon the completion of the project. The end.
Everything I learned about climate was by watching An Inconvenient Truth. Everything I learned about dinosaurs was from watching The Land Before Time.
I think Pulp Fiction would be a great movie for 3rd graders to learn how politics works..
Don’t forget the lead in Barney’s purple softening of reason and rationale.
A whole British generation has brain damage from ‘Tellytubbies’
The Children’s Crusade continues.
Amazing how effective “public education” has been.
Or as the old question goes;”Who watches the watchmen?
I hold some hope for these children,their passion now may evolve into a less gullible future for them.
The Emperor they follow is ugly,fat and naked…soon enough they will face the questions;
“Who you gonna believe?.Me? Or your lying eyes?”
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail (Conscience Press, Ravenna, 1999) ~700 pages
I believe it is free download at her site or a $40 large format paperback at AmaXon
They are all passion, no brains.
Chilling.
No mistaking that the term Climate Justice means using criminal laws to promote and enforce the latest whims of juvenile believers.
If the word ‘ignorance’ means lacking knowledge then what is the word (or phrase) that means knowing things that aren’t real or are not true?
ThomasJK
Democrat
Socialist
Communist
Economist
Racist.
Environmentalist?
Ecologist?
Fundamentalist?
Sophomore, sophomoric
Delusiopn
Fat fingers today?
Delusion is probably the best.
Other choices are fantasy, imaginary, fictional, erroneous, false, unreal, misleading, disingenuous, misrepresented, misinformed, fabricated, etc, etc.
I got the ‘siop’ part of Delusiopn even if you didn’t!
Mistaken?
Wrong?
Mannian?
Illusion of knowledge.
Delusions of knowledge? 😎
PS I admit, I was young and dumb once.
I grew out of being young. Still willing to keep growing out of being “dumb”.
Everything I need to know I learned from… Popeye. Of course, my cartoon learning cycle was from a different era. 🙂
The best Popeye’s, Loony Tunes etc. were the ones made as an intermission for the movies.
After TV came along, they were made for kids.
“Hundreds” or dozens?
Looked like under 2 dozen to me..
A few dozen will melt away like Peak Oilers in between market swings. It would be more fun with thousands of them……. to ridicule as cyclical cooling becomes more obvious.
“When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” – Herr Schicklgruber May Day 1933
The powers that be are well aware of this fact:
“The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so. In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational area”.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=3051
So safely assume that skilled propagandists can easily indoctrinate an inexperienced brain.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
From a very different time and place, “A WASTE is a terrible thing to mind.”
My job title was Shift Test Engineer. Our Trainees were Assistant STE’s. At the end of my career, retired 1995, we had to hire Women.
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
Come back, Dan Quayle, all is forgiven!
Have the Brits forgotten Postman Pat from Greendale? Just look at Mrs. Goggins’ grocery store shelves – complete with Soma, that very same happiness product advertized by Huxley’s Brave New World.
Targeted pre-schoolers.
…Teen Protestors: Learned about Climate Change in “Arthur” and “The Magic School Bus” Children’s Cartoons….
Brilliant!! We’ve got them!
Because they will learn the truth eventually. And then they will see how they were tricked and lied to. And they will become much more skeptical in future…
At the moment, just remind them of the Jesuit’s motto:
“Give me the child up to the age of seven, and I will give you the man….”
Cut to the chase and ask them what they know about ENSO, AMO, Antarctica, satellite vs ground measurements, and the New Orleans levee boards.
Or really cut to the chase and ask if the earth is warming, and why. Are nights warming faster than days? Are record warm temps outpacing record cold? Is solar irradiation higher or lower in the past few decades while globally we set warm records?
Ask why satellite and ground measurements match (after the umpteenth change in how temperatures are derived from satellites and how they got things wrong the first 10 times), and why rural and urban areas show the same warming.
Maybe simply determine if they know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. That alone would separate the crowd into two camps.
Or really, really cut to the chase and get some answers to the first questions and not more questions or deflections.
Alley, yes the Earth has been warming for 300-400 years. Removing noise from the satellite data shows the real warming is quite small.
UAH
April-August 1980-81 14.4 C (58.0F) -.06C
April-August 1990….. 14.5 C (58.1F) .02C
April-August 1995-96 14.6 C (58.2F) .09C
April-August 2001-02 14.7 C (58.4F) .19C
April-August 2007….. 14.7 C (58.4F) .18C
April-August 2014….. 14.7 C (58.4F) .17C
April-June…..2018….. 14.7 C (58.4F) .20C
That’s a total of .26 C since 1980 and we know there was no warming from 1940-1980. That’s it. So, at most .26 C in the past 78 years.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1980/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1980/trend
Now, exactly why is this a problem? It is most likely just a continuation of the long term warming/cooling cycle that has been going on for millennia.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/2000-years-of-global-temperatures-industrial-revolution-start.jpg
The earth has been warming for almost 200 years. CO2 only been rising in significant amounts for the last 50 years.
Records are meaningless since first off there are a lot more places measuring temperature today than there was 50 or 100 years ago. Secondly, there have been many significant changes in how and where temperatures are being measured.
Satellite and ground measurements do not match and never have. Satellite and radio sonde measurements have always matched. Neither have matched ground readings.
Rural and urban have never showed the same warming, in fact rural shows very little warming.
Any more lies you care to try and sneak past us?
“Zero hour”? More like Zero Brains.
These cartoons are produced in the United States, where their content is protected by U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. (Unlike most other countries, where such content is subject to government approval).
They are presented under a pretense of “science”. But I don’t think it’s really science, because its promoters do not tolerate any open criticism of their beliefs. So, Climatism is more like a religion. But, (and it’s a big BUT), religion is also protected under the U.S. Constitution).
The sticky point is that it is being promoted as a kind of _state religion_. Such indoctrination is clearly prohibited by the U.S. Constituition.
Recall a decade or so ago, a Bible-based TV show called “Vege-Tales”, which involved cute little talking vegetables. It was widely popular, even among so-called ‘non-believers’ because of its wholesome and entertaining content. Most importantly, it was not being imposed as part of a “deep” government campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymx-tub4YpM
Why are liberals so opposed to diversity (of beliefs)?
Diverse attitudes to tolerance of diversity will not be tolerated!
You mention vegetables. Another travesty being perpetrated on our youth is the dangerous, ignorant doctrine that some kind of “virtue” lies in veganism. Go read Weston A. Price’s classic, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” to see how that one works out. Interestingly, he correlates lack of fat-soluble vitamins and minerals in the diet with anti-social and psychotic behavior–we’re seeing that play out right now. Is it a coincidence that most people in cities live on soy-laced empty calories from bodegas? I think NOT.
Insufficient fat in the diets of infants and toddlers results in a reduction in brain growth and development.
The recognized foundations of our Western society are: Judeo-Christianity, the Nukelar Family, and Mutually-Agreeable-Contract-Based Free Trade / Capitalism.
For the Marxists, the Enemy is Our Society, Our Culture. It is our Cultural Hegemony they identify as the mechanism of oppression, keeping our Evil, Oppressive System in place.
Their goal is to bring down our Oppressive Society and replace it with Communism.
They have to weaken Judeo-Christianity, The Nukelar Family, and Capitalism, so that the populace is then ready to carry out The Bloody Revolution, from which Communism will arise, as a historical eventuality.
To weaken the Nukelar Family, they are teaching the kids that their parents are either ignorant or evil by polluting the earth, harming Mother Gaia. Once the Educators are seen as virtuous, and parents seen as evil, the Marxists have made major progress in destroying one of the three pillars of our society, the Nukelar Family.
They are then very well softened up to head off to college, having lived a wonderful live courtesy of our Prevailing Society, and hear that God is dead, and your evil or ignorant parents were only misleading you about all of that God stuff, just as they were ignorant or evil about Mother Gaia.
When you follow up on any and all of these “progressive” stories, you will eventually encounter a Marxist involved in setting up these movements. Guaranteed.