Guest essay by Eric Worrall Vice reports that some US States are using new academic freedom initiatives, designed to prevent climate indoctrination, to add courses about creationism to mainstream school…
Category: Education
Yale University Closes Climate Change Institute
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t James Delingpole; Yale University has announced the closure of its Climate Change Institute. All funding will be cut by the end of June. After…
Shock Study: Some School Students are Still Taught about Climatic Natural Variation
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published in Science reveals that a number of teachers are rebelling against Federal education directives – that a significant number of school teachers…
Are Aussie Teachers putting Green Indoctrination ahead of Education?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall There have been a number of stories recently about how Australian schools are doing wonderful things. Sadly, few of these wonderful things seem to involve…
AGI: 77% of colleges think climate studies is a science course
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The American Geosciences Institute has published a study which claims that Earth and Space Science courses, which include a substantial element of climate studies, is…
How German schools take climate change "seriously"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Washington Post thinks Americans don’t take Climate Change seriously enough. Opinion columnist Catherine Rampell thinks we should look to the example of how German…
Climate Youth–The Next Generation Science Standards
Guest Opinion by James Sawhill – The Next Generation Science Standards provide two new science areas that teachers are to present, students are to learn, and for which K-12 US…
Improving Climate Literacy: 'Temperature Homogenization Activity'
Guest essay by Jim Steele In 2012 the National Academies of Science published A Framework For K-12 Science Education Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Although the framework often characterizes…
Give Gruber a Break
By Charles Battig Jonathan Gruber has been roundly reprimanded in the press, blogging sites, and everywhere in between for his candid comments regarding “the stupidity of the American voter” being…
The Ultimate Irony: Camille Parmesan argues “Texas textbooks need to get the facts straight” on global warming
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University In a recent Commentary posted to the Statesman.com here, Camille Parmesan and the AAAS want…
A Queenslander's Guide to Australian Universities
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The university choices faced by my fellow Queenslanders leave much to be desired if you want to avoid being indoctrinated to global warming mantras. Here…
What film to recommend in fifth grade class to counter climate alarmism?
This request came in from WUWT reader Michael, who’s concerned that “My daughter’s fifth grade class is currently being indoctrinated regarding “human caused” climate change.” and he wants to know…
Oh the pain! #Kochmachine is in many American universities, including Penn State
While Dr. Michael Mann tries to paint being funded by the Koch Corporation as being equivalent to pure evil in his attempts to smear people like myself… …it is enlightening…
Is Yoko Ono smarter than a 4th grader?
Guest post by David Middleton First up: Yoko Ono and friends… ‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York John Lennon’s…
Pilot video for a series: Bill Scientific – "The Greenhouse Effect"
Guest post by Bill DiPuccio, Science Teacher Let’s face it, high school science videos can be boring and ineffective. I like my science with a twist of comic exaggeration. So…
Monckton in a rift with Union college Earth scientist and activist
Readers may recall this piece Monckton’s Schenectady showdown in which he schools a number of students despite “en-masse” collections (to use Donald Rodbell’s words) of naysayers. Mr. Rodbell and Erin…
Fake moral outrage translated to smear: media upset that students can choose to take an elective course on climate change at Carleton
More Fakegate fallout. On February 28, 2012, the report Climate Change Denial in the Classroom was issued by the Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism of the Centre for…
Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd,…
Comparing climate skepticism to "creationism" in the classroom
Alternate title: Science education gets Gleicked From AAAS: “Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well-organized interest groups? A growing…
New AGU endorsed climate survey for educators – a bit odd
People send me stuff. This arrived today in my inbox. This anonymous survey (open to anyone) was announced via the American Geophysical Union mailing list, done by the National Earth…
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