Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A child activist interviewed by the BBC is disappointed that some “educated people” resist climate indoctrination enough to accept jobs from oil companies.
Climate change: Schools failing us, say pupils
By Judith Burns
Education reporter“It’s educated people who are causing the most damage to the planet,” says sixth-former Joe Brindle.
Joe, 17, says schools need to put the environment at the heart of education.
Ministers agree “it is vital that pupils are taught about climate change” but Joe says schools are failing to prepare them for a climate emergency.
He is a founder member of Teach the Future which next week takes its call for an environmental overhaul of education to Parliament.
“It’s people with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge who are becoming fossil-fuel chief executives and they are the ones who are causing the most destruction to our world,” says Joe.
“And therefore that kind of shows that education is not succeeding and that our education is broken because education should be creating better people not worse.”
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In a statement, the government said: “It is vital that pupils are taught about climate change, which is why topics are included across the national curriculum for both primary and secondary schools. Teachers have the freedom to expand on these areas if they wish.
“This government is a world leader in tackling climate change and we are the first major economy to legislate for net-zero emissions by 2050. The Department for Education provides funding to support schools to become more sustainable institutions.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-51492942
An education system which still produces a handful of climate skeptic graduates who can think for themselves just isn’t good enough.
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…“It’s educated people who are causing the most damage to the planet,” says sixth-former Joe Brindle…
I agree. But it is an entirely different sect of educated people than those he is thinking of.
“Education is Failing Because Some Graduates Become Oil Executives.”
The BBC made a typo in the title of their article.
It should read:
“Education is Failing Because Some Graduates Still Take CAGW Seriously.”
Fixed.
The problem in the UK is lack of science education. Science and engineering are seen as “difficult” subjects which actually need some work to understand! I spent several hours yesterday with several thermodynamics text books to write a critique of the “greenhouse gas” scam, from proper scientific principles. Interestingly the question is quite difficult from several directions because the idea is contrary to thermodynamic principles, to gas theory and in a number of other aspects, particularly radiative heat transfer at low temperatures. Molecules in a gas continuously collide and transfer energy between themselves, equalising the overall temperature. The CO2 (or water vapour or whatever) collide at a high rate so energy transfer must be quite quick, even if each transfer is tiny. For the re-radiation to operate as suggested it must be virtually instantaneous, as the “stored energy” will decrease fairly rapidly through multiple collisions. As this process is at molecular level we rapidly get to quantum mechanics as the quantities of energy per molecule are very small, and the temperature differences very tiny. There is clearly a minimum temperature difference at which radiation can happen at all, but quantum heat transfer is not described in any details in any of the advanced books I have! Interesting. I wonder what the BBC would make of this problem?
I amazed that the BBC commissioned a programme about the history of the diesel engine called The Engine that Powers the World.
http://www.markevans.co.uk/television/the-engine-that-powers-the-world
I hadn’t realised the extent of the use of diesel power to run the world’s economy.
Mark Evans’ web page has some clips of the programme, but, not unexpectedly, the BBC iPlayer says the programme is ‘not available’, whereas other episodes in the Timesheet series seem to be available.
I wonder why?
Certainly the problem of switching all the work done by diesel engines to electricity seems an impossible task, even if we could produce the electricity from renewables.
Timeshift..da…d autocorrect
David Stone – February 24, 2020 at 11:40 pm
David S, given your above comments, I thought you might be interested in the following excerpt from a WUWT guest post by Pat Frank, dated September 7, 2019, …… to wit:
That’s nothing, they want to re-write history too.
To prepare climate strikers for the future, we need to rewrite the history books
Amanda Power, Associate Professor in Medieval History, University of Oxford
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/prepare-climate-strikers-future-rewrite-095705075.html
Ah well, when I was 17 I also knew it all and had all the answers to issues that the old fogeys couldn’t solve. Full of vim and vigour I would save the world by slamming the “establishment” who were clueless idiots. Then I went to university and guess what? Found out that things are NEVER black and white and that simple solutions to very complicated issues are almost always wrong.
Its called growing up and he will change his views once he does
Sir Terry Pratchett’s Archchancellor of Unseen University defended the university as a fount of all knowledge thus: “We get all of these young boys coming here knowing that they know everything. By the time they graduate, they realise that they actually know very little. Now, all that original knowledge HAS to go somewhere – so it goes into the University itself”.
(I think a number of colleges seem to operate on that principle!)
Journalism education is failing because some graduates become BBC presenters!