Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish
As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void
- 3 Oct 2025
- 11:05 AM ET
- By Gaea Cabico
When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change…
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The cuts go beyond climate.gov to sites explicitly designed for educators, such as the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)…
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Breck Foster, a teacher at Lake Oswego High School in Oregon who weaves climate change into her social studies classes…
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Biology teachers should be teaching biology. Social studies teachers should be teaching anything other than actual science.
Some nonprofit organizations have been scrambling to fill the void. Margaret Wang-Aghania, executive director and co-founder of SubjectToClimate…
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Former NOAA employees hope to mitigate the loss of climate.gov. “We intend to restore all that content … outside the federal domain, where it is safe from further political interference,” says Rebecca Lindsey, former program manager of climate.gov…
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If there are “nonprofit organizations” and “former NOAA employees” willing to fund climate propaganda, why were taxpayers footing the bill in the first place?
More good news for taxpayers…
Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts
NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research fears worse in coming months
- 2 Oct 2025
- 4:05 PM ET
- By Jeffrey Mervis
Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s leading climate research centers, this week laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions.
The job actions, which have not been announced publicly, coincide with the start of a partial U.S. government shutdown. NCAR, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has so far been able to maintain normal operations and avoid furloughs of its 830 employees. But NCAR officials fear what could happen next: a $50 million cut to the center’s current $123 million budget.
President Donald Trump proposed the 40% reduction in his 2026 budget request to Congress…
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In addition to laying off workers in the center’s administrative and support units, the belt-tightening will result in a loss of employee benefits and reduced services—such as shorter cafeteria hours and fewer shuttle buses…
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It will take a lot more than a 40% budget cut to undo this damage:
Defunding climate propaganda should be a no-brainer because you literally “can’t get there from here”…
(Wood for Trees, MacFarling Meure et al., 2006)
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“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Lenin
Lenin was paraphrasing (stealing) the original quote from St. Ignatius de Loyola. “Give me the child for the first seven years, and I will give you the man.”
Founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius was at the leading edge of the Counter-Reformation.
Aristotle argued that:
Luckily, apparently, young people tend to rebel against their elders. So I’m sure many who were brainwashed by Lenin and the Jesuits turned against them as they grew up and experienced the world and other ideas. The brainwashing seems to work best if the young never experience alternative ideas.
Teachers should stick to their curriculums and never mind foisting off their opinions, often of the alarmist variety, regarding climate change on their students. The problem is that many of these curriculums are left-leaning, so they also give a one-sided view of the issue. Not many teachers or programs of studies would include the above chart in their textbooks or lessons since it goes against the prevailing alarmism most likely to be found in the school systems.
“..weaves climate change into her social studies classes…”
Climate change in social studies?
Chapter 13: Social Justice
Chapter 14: Our Most Vulnerable
Social Studies used to include a look back at prior societies to study their mores and the laws enacted in comparison to today. It was eliminated when the anti “white capitalist racist” movement took hold.
How things have changed.
The curricula in most subjects have been tainted or outright corrupted.
One thing the alarmist climate sites do not do is the actual science behind their panic filled claims. All conclusions, and almost no support for those calls to action.
Here is a suggestion:How to Get Expelled from School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents and PuntersDate:09/25/2023Author:Ian Plimer Topic: Climate Change Debate Organization :Book Length:
Ian Plimer
Every teacher should be made to take a test, it will be a blue book test. There will be two parts. Part one yes or no do you believe in and teach catastrophic anthropogenic global warming caused by CO2. If yes move on to part two if no return to your classroom your students are waiting for you. Part two is to write in your own words exactly how more CO2 in our atmosphere causes catastrophic global warming. All part two exams will be sent to the Heartland Institute to be studied and graded.
This is just bragging now.
Many who visit this site are still stuck in a pre-Trump world. The Australian Minister for the DCCEEW is preparing his team for an onslaught at COP30 and the fight of his life to host COP31 in Adelaide against Turkey’s bid.
The Australian senate enquiry into misinformation into climate and energy has just completed hearings and will be going after anyone who is spreading any information on climate and energy that is not government sanctioned.
Going after how? I’m not saying you are wrong or incorrect. The Australian Senate is a legislative body; it doesn’t have any judicial or executive powers.
They could draft laws that might get passed.
Just as you need reading, writing and arithmetic before you take physics and chemistry, these are necessary for oceanography and meteorology. A little introduction is important in high school, especially in teaching geography, not so much sociology. High school should be, as it was, preparation for college because climate and ocean science are far too complex for the average student. You can now get college degrees in subjects that didn’t, and shouldn’t, exist and courses in high school that many teachers would have trouble adequately comprehending.
Last time I talked to undergraduates, three in two universities in engineering during the lockdown, a subject was that you now need more years of education in science and they knew the lockdown was nonsense. Decades ago colleges had to offer basic courses preparing for college reading, writing, and arithmetic. I recall a student who couldn’t get in graduate school because he had no college math!
We had students coming into Engineering at Uni who had done only base level maths in high school, and didn’t even know what differentiation, integration etc were. Even struggled with basic trigonometry
Made things very difficult when trying to teach them bending moment diagrams, structural analysis, hydraulics etc etc.
Had lots drop out, to come back after they had done a year catching up through remedial maths courses.
We have problems with students who can’t even do basic Algebra consistently. Our primary and secondary schools are doing a terrible job with the average student. The exceptional student will get it on their own, but the others need a system that actually cares that the student graduates literate and numerate.
I had to take English and Math entry exams. Fortunately my education was sufficient that I only needed on college English class and started straight into calculus, which was not offered in high school.
No problem, Teacher Jeff, RealClimateScience.Com has all plenty of graphs and data, plus an AI to help you sort it and understand it. There is also the CO2 Coalition run by a lot of PhDs with lots of documents and graphs. You might even learn something yourself!
“RealClimateScience.Com” is not to be confused with “RealClimate.Com”.
Relatively little scientific knowledge is taught in US K-12 anymore. Instead they now supposedly teach “how to think like a scientist” which means they do projects trying to explain simple stuff.
https://mailchi.mp/nationalacademies/preparing-students-to-think-like-scientists?e=2d3357081f
learning scientific knowledge was dismissed as “rote learning” because you had to remember it. My guess is that only about 20% of the science that used to be taught is still taught. I could measure it given a sponsor because 15 years ago I cataloged what was taught by grade, before the new wave hit.
it is easy to make projects green, actual science not so much. One popular multi-week project I wrote about was to redesign the dairy industry to reduce CO2 emissions.
And very likely it will be a team or group project where the dullards get carried by a couple of the brighter ones.
“shorter cafeteria hours and fewer shuttle buses”
Do I actually have to think of a sentence to explain why that’s quoted?
Has anyone reading this outside of silicon valley ever gone to work where there’s still a cafeteria?
I still have one in my office complex. But the complex isn’t close to much in the way of eateries that are within reasonable walking distance (given an hour for lunch) so I suspect when they built it they knew they would need “facilities” if they were going to get any companies to rent there.
One of my worksites had 2, another 1, another 1. All very good, and within 7-8 miles of each other. But we only got 42 minutes (0.7 hours) for lunch.
Call me surprised but I had no idea the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) had 830 employees. Yosemite National Park summer employment is reported to be under 800. Most of us have seen NP employees working. A congress critter should send a letter to each NCAR employee and ask what they did this past summer. The computers have names. Prior were Yellowstone, and Cheyenne, now Derecho – the tip of the iceberg – so to say. Do some stand about the big computers waving palm ferns to cool them? Does the electricity come from wind and solar? {rant over}
The NPS is extremely woke. I have a friend who could only get temp jobs with them- for 17 years. He has a BS in natural resources, a masters in desert ecology, a law degree, advanced courses in environmental law, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail, put up an awesome nature photography web site, etc. While he, a white, healthy heterosexual male couldn’t get a full time job with them, others, especially females, one tall blond guy who said he was part Native American, a guy with one arm half an inch shorter than the other, etc. got those jobs. All of those others had vastly less education and real world experience.
I remember when a common complaint was paid lobbyist.
Nothing wrong with them as long they didn’t get into bribes and such.
They are paid by industry or groups to present their industry’s interest/expertise to politicians.
But many paid NGOs (lobbyist) have been paid by the taxpayers.
What Trump is doing is cutting them off.
That’s a good thing that never should have needed to be done.