Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New state laws aim to refocus climate activist teachers on providing academic education.
STATES ARE INTRODUCING BILLS THAT COULD PREVENT TEACHERS FROM ADVOCATING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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A bill in South Dakota would require each school board to adopt a code of ethics that prevents public school elementary and secondary school teachers from advocating “for any issue that is part of a political party platform at the national, state, or local level.” The Arizona legislature introduced a nearly identical bill.
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Science education groups are concerned that these bills, if enacted, would limit instruction on anthropogenic climate change, which is a key tenet of state and federal Democratic Party platforms. In the case of Maine, the bill could require teachers to discuss climate change as a disputed theory and present disproven theories for the global rise in temperatures as valid.
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Read more: https://psmag.com/news/state-bills-could-prevent-teachers-from-advocating-for-climate-change
The article notes similar laws are being introduced in Virginia and Maine.
It is a great start, however, we are decades to late.
CAGW (the set of crazy ideas) is growing like a dangerous mental condition with lots of help from rich individuals/fundations who are true believers.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/green-new-deal-tour_us_5c326a4fe4b0d75a9831d845
It’s been a whirlwind two months since the youth activists of the Sunrise Movement staged protests in Democratic leaders’ offices, bringing into the mainstream calls for a Green New Deal ― a sweeping federal policy that would mandate 100 percent renewable energy and provide good-paying sustainable jobs to millions of Americans.
Now the Sunrise Movement, likely the nation’s fastest-growing climate advocacy group, is planning a 14-stop tour meant to drum up grassroots support for a Green New Deal across multiple states, HuffPost has learned. It’s the first leg of the group’s effort to make the policy the defining issue of the 2020 election. ”
http://westernwire.net/new-reporting-sheds-light-on-who-is-funding-sunrise/
Institutional funders are responsible for more than half of Sunrise’s annual budget, at 55 percent. The rest comes from individuals and non-profits.
Both the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Wallace Global Fund provide substantial financial support to EarthRights International (ERI), the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit representing Boulder County, Boulder City and San Mateo County in their lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor. In their lawsuit, the localities are alleging that the two defendants are liable for damages resulting from climate change. The lawsuit is a part of a national campaign where local governments are teaming up with non-profits and plaintiff attorney firms to file suit against large energy producers in state court.
Among Sunrise’s most prominent priorities is the adoption of a “Green New Deal,” which, in represents a push for massive investment in renewable energy and a shift in the economic status quo away from one dependent on fossil fuels. The end-goal is to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and create “millions” of jobs through new infrastructure projects.
Sunrise is also focused on the political game. During the 2018 midterm elections, the group released a targeted list of states where they hoped to sway the outcome. Sunrise also offered a “Sunrise Semester” where participants would be deployed for six months
This seems like a dangerous road to go down. After all if I don’t want something taught in schools then all
I would have to do is start a political party even at a local level that campaigns against it. Teaching about vaccinations, evolution, fluoridated drinking water etc could all easily be outlawed by this.
Nonsense.
Percy, teach them to read, write and calculate. Teach them to think for themselves, teach them to think critically. Don’t indoctrinate them.
No one is worrying that a 4th grader isnt learning Maxwell’s equations, or the Chain Rule in calculus, or DNA sequencing. Percy, you seem like an honest btight fellow. Suspend belief for a moment and ask yourself why ACTIVISTS think there is a desperate need for a 7yr old to learn catastrophic climate change theory blamed on his/her parents and the need to throw open our borders and have Eurocentric global governance and regulation to fix it? Hint: Its the same reason they cant wait to learn about the sex lives and vicissitudes of a dozen different genders and thelack of diversity of bathrooms.
Oh yeah, Percy. Is it okay to tell the kids that climate has always changed and we’ve had periods of no polar ice, periods of continental ice sheets 3 miles thick over many of the cities they live in, we’ve had a green productive Sahara that is a desert now, but its starting to green again? And this is also the шнутемаиs fault.
Is there any of these statements that you can point to that are not facts. Is their any D*Nile of climate in these paragraphs? The truth about climate is a lot messier a subject than is supposed by the consensus. It it all unequivocal to you?
Evidently Great Britain has required its public schools to present both sides of the man-made climate change theory, so it would be a good idea if parents in North America demanded the same from their curriculum makers. This would prevent the teachers who don’t know the pros and cons of the argument from sticking too closely to the one-sided views espoused by the Leftists.
Trouble is, we would not get a balanced view. In fact it’s clear that neither teachers nor activists nor most of their supporters who comment on this blog have any understanding of the official proponent scientific position or the scientifically literate sceptic position. If a teacher thinks sceptics are “climate d*nyers” from all the hype and fake news the left cranks out, what case are they going to present for the sceptic side. And don’t forget, most teachers are activist or at least southpaw politically. They’ve had a double dose of it by education and their training.
The “teacher” should be teaching history and why governments fail and how “money works”. How much do we owe the government. I haven’t looked at the “debt clock”lately \.
William my advice is get out while you can.
There’s no stopping this because the population is more than half genetically pre-disposed to believe based on emotion, particularly when the ’emotional message’ is delivered by an authority backed with monetary might.
There’s some good literature on spending and winning in USA politics (at a State/regional level).
USA’s ’emotive cognizance’ profile is now similar to that of Venezuela or Brazil’s populations.
People with money know this and know how to profit from it.
But it’s worse than that . . .
In the USA, you’re sandwiched between the green mafia and the cartels.
They have the same objective but naturally they’re approaching it very differently.
They’re patient, sophisticated, generous and non-threatening in the halls of power (the opposite on the street).
They own (at arms length) most of the Dems and some of the Repubs.
You’ll get your socialist utopia; nothing is more certain.
Poor little dearies-not being allowed to brainwash the children with propaganda. Boo-hoo. In Australia, it is against education department policy for teachers to push their personal political/ religious agenda. Teachers who complain that they are no longer allowed to push propaganda to impressionable children should be more than just sacked, they must be forced to de-brainwash all the children they have plugged their lies to. If they refuse, then it is regarded as treason.
As a former (now retired) high school social studies teacher, I embraced the opportunity to challenge my students on many supposedly “settled” issues. When studying global climates in World Geography class, the school textbooks included the “many scientists agree” CAGW argument. I simply couldn’t let that go without including a class lesson on objectivity and how to recognize bias in textbooks. We would discuss climate change as factually being a natural and ongoing process. Then we would investigate and discuss arguments regarding CAGW/Climate Change from various perspectives. Most students had not been made aware of the anti-CAGW position. Yet, although I do admit I utilized a fair amount of information from WUWT, I did not overtly press my personal views upon the students. Once the lesson was concluded, many of the students had refreshingly different viewpoints regarding climate change.
U.S. Government class (Seniors) and the objective lessons/perils of socialism was yet another subject matter that I thoroughly enjoyed!
The usual two extremes in US arguments in these comments. Rote learning vs brainwashing.
Any half decent teacher will achieve the following:
1. Raise an interesting question/issue.
2. Provide an historical timeline of what has already been discovered.
3. Highlight what is still not known.
4. Discuss approaches being taken to address current unknowns.
5. Invite class to dream up ideas to solve specific problems.
6. Discuss some of those ideas, encouraging class to drill down deeper and learn more.
Here are things that can easily be taught about weather and climate:
1. Solar Cycles and Hale Cycles.
2. CMEs and effects on earth weather.
3. Effects of solar and lunar perigee/apogee on weather events.
4. The el Nino/La Nina phenomenon and their role in Us West Coast climate.
5. The Mediterranean Climate, seasonal rainfall and the challenges of living for six months without rainfall.
6. The Gulf of Mexico as a source of tropical storms and hurricanes, how such storms can track and the effect they have if they make landfall.
7. The use of radiosonde balloons and satellites to gather atmospheric temperature data.
8. The major oceanic currents and how they affect coastal climates.
9. The major wind patterns on earth (jet stream, trade winds etc) and how they affect global weather.
10. Major oscillation parameters identified (PDO, Amo, AO, NAO, MJO etc) and how they explain alternative weather scenarios in certain parts of the world.
I hope the Law applies to the Colleges as well, as that’s where all these teachers (indoctrinators) came from – the Teacher’s Colleges.
“…prevents public school elementary and secondary school teachers from advocating for any issue that is part of a political party platform…” In other words,stop brain washing our kids with your own political beliefs.
This should be a requirement taught in every university department of education and enacted as law in all states and territories. But, good luck. One party in the U.S. relies heavily on it to generate future members.
In the news today, 2/20/19:
Dianne Feinstein Pushes Funding for Climate Change Indoctrination
“Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said Tuesday that climate change poses an “immediate danger,” while decrying the lack of school teachers equipped to educate students concerning its perils.
Ms. Feinstein spoke as part of her push for the “Climate Change Education Act,” a bill that would allocate resources to prepare teachers to promote the climate change agenda in schools.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/02/20/dianne-feinstein-pushes-funding-for-climate-change-indoctrination/