Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon – Connecticut state representative Christine Palm is alarmed that some children in her district choose to spend all their school time focussing on traditional studies like mathematics and science instead of spending some of their time learning about the “life and death” issue of Climate Change.
Teach kids about climate change? This state might require it
By MICHAEL MELIA
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A legislative proposal in Connecticut would mandate instruction on climate change in public schools statewide, beginning in elementary school.
Connecticut already has adopted science standards that call for teaching of climate change, but if the bill passes it is believed that it would be the country’s first to write such a requirement into law.
“A lot of schools make the study of climate change an elective, and I don’t believe it should be an elective,” said state Rep. Christine Palm, a Democrat from Chester who proposed the bill. “I think it should be mandatory, and I think it should be early so there’s no excuse for kids to grow up ignorant of what’s at stake.”
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Palm, who represents towns along the Connecticut River in southeast Connecticut, said climate change deserves a more prominent place in children’s education because of the urgency of the threat posed by global warming.
“I’d love to see poetry be mandated. That’s never going to happen,” she said. “That’s not life or death.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/e19029381ba24b9c9c567e0924621888
Christine didn’t go into detail about what job opportunities a qualification in climate studies would create, or whether a mandatory qualification in climate studies would help students win entry to the university of their choice.
Oh yeah let’s teach elementary school children climate “science” before they even have a real mathematics, physics, chemistry, or philosophy class. Brilliant. Why bother actually learning the mundane fundamentals of science when you can just skip straight to the specialized and highly complex subdiscipline. Why haven’t we done this for all subjects? Kindergarten students could be taught how to build and launch rockets, how to perform brain surgery, how to write artificial intelligence software, and by first grade could be successfully teleporting matter using quantum entanglement.
I suggest snow shoveling shop classes instead….starting this weekend.
Here in New Hampshire, we’re predicted to get two feet of snow on Sunday with another shot of 6″ or so for good measure on Thursday next week. My fossil-fuel gulping snow blower will be getting a workout (along with me!) dealing with the aftermath..
I take it you have a good roof.
She seems very inadequately qualified judge the urgency of teaching climate change, with her BA in English.
Indoctrinate them young and often
Don’t they build nuclear attack submarines in CT?
“A lot of schools make the study of climate change an elective, and I don’t believe it should be an elective,” said state Rep. Christine Palm. “I think it should be mandatory, and I think it should be early, so there’s no excuse for kids to grow up ignorant of what’s at stake.”
Always assuming you believe that “climate change” is caused by humans, which is a stretch since the climate has been changing constantly since the earth was formed. What IS changing now is that humans — particularly on the Left — are growing more and more stupid. That’s the “life and death issue!”
You’re WAY too optimistic. NOTHING will shut them up permanently except having their jaws wired shut.
It is a good thing, the little rebels will search the internet for anything that proves their teachers wrong.
One of the favorite talking points of the alarmists lately is regarding wildfires, thanks to California’s recent bout. I found a website for the Interagency Fire Center, a .gov site that’s still up. According to their numbers, if I’m reading them right, the number of fires per year has been trending down since 1983, the first year the site claims has trustworthy numbers.
With hurricanes down, tornadoes down, fires down, temps up and down, sea level rise the same — what exactly is the climate change they’re talking about?
The exaggerated reporting of these events have been trending up since 1983 — that’s all.
There used to be a song of some notoriety in the UK by a comedy group called Ivor Biggun & the Red Nosed Burglars. The refrain thanked “Mrs. Palm & her Five Lovely Daughters for being Oh! So kind”.
Surely not the same Democrat Rep?
I can recall with great fondness a elderly science teacher in 1937 in England teaching us by repeating the original great experiements of the past 200 years.
The first was Galvani and his frogs hanging on iron hooks, which twitched as lighting flashes occurred in the distance. Then of Volta who reasoned that it had to be because metals in a flued, the frogs blood caused this reaction, and he then created the first battery which produced direct currant electricity. Then the science teacher in Denmark who using such a battery and a magnetic compass, showed that a flow of electricity produced magnetism which moved the compass needle.
And finally Michael Faraday who showed that magnetism both produced electricity and that electricity could also move a armature thus a electric motor. The whole of our modern civilisation is based on those experiements. .
That is what needs to be taught to todays studients, it should awake in them a love of science, instead of the Mumbo Jumbo rubbish taught today.
MJE
I’m all for making this a mandatory course — there’s no better way to make kids hate a course than to have this religious proselytizing shoved down their throats!
Teaching about climate. Great!
Start here:
All reporting agencies agree there has been little or no change in average global temperature since about 2002.
CO2 has increased since 2002 by 40% of the increase 1800 to 2002 so if CO2 has any effect on temperature at all, it can’t be very much.
If this law is as successful at stopping global warming as sex education was at stopping unwanted babies, we are all going to parish in an inferno.
Perish ?? , sorry couldn’t resist
In Colorado many schools have adopted an Environmental Literacy curriculum. Connecticut’s approach would at least be more honest. Indoctrination by any other name…
The curriculum planners will make certain this course will have the proper Leftist slant-put your money on it!
If intelligent parents can teach their children the FACTS, this is going to lead to cognitive dissonance for the child. SOMEONE is lying to me – but who? With everyone around him/her going with the MSM and the “97% consensus”, and parents saying otherwise – just who do they believe? And this is, obviously, not a good thing.
I wonder if the Connecticut legislature will precisely define what they mean by the term “climate change” before they demand that all children in the state study it in detail?
Problem is that weather and climate are now so complicated that most people just accept what the so called Experts tell them. don’t understand why Pres. Trump does not tell the EPA to go back to Court and prove that CO2 is a good gas, and is essential to all life on Earth.
Only then can we start to educated the population about the giant sized “House of cards” which has been built on the so called fact that CO2 is a pollutant as per the Obama run EPA.
Re the earlier mention about the British being harsh to the Germans after the end of WW1. My understanding of that time is that the British wanted to help Germany recover, but y the Fr ench who had suffered a part occupation for four years are full of hate, plus they still remembered being defeated in the Franco Prussian war of 1870..
But the real killer which brought Hitler to power was the crash on Wall Street. One wonders if we have yet to learn just how dangerous Wall Street really is ?
MJE
t, USA.
Strange thing is the leftist intelligentsia falls all over themselves heaping praise on these lefty states with their high minded ideals. Yet these same states lose population year after year as people vote with their feet and leave those same high minded ideals. Go figure. lol