Teaching the truth about climate change

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isinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. (In fact, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is here and that it is caused by humans.)

One way to stop the spread of this misinformation is to teach children about climate change.

Read The New York Times story - “Teaching the Truth About Climate Change”.