The reality that global
warming is human-induced is beyond debate.
However, America’s conservative forces as they do in Australia continue to argue otherwise.
Just recently, the Salon magazine listed and published "11 heinous lides conservatives are teaching Americca's school children"
It argued in the article that the righ had a new plan to capture the country's youth vote by taking over the public school cirriculums.
The article said: “If recent elections have taught us anything, it’s that young Americans have taken a decided turn to the left. Young voters delivered Obama the election: the under-44 set voted Obama and the over-45 set broke for Romney. The youngest voters, age 18-29, gave Obama a whopping 60 percent of their vote.
“Now Republicans have a plan to try to recapture the youngest voters out there: Take over the curriculum in public schools, replace education with a bunch of conservative propaganda, and reap the benefits of having a new generation that can’t tell reality from right-wing fantasy,” it said.
The third lie of the eleven published says:
Climate change is a massive hoax scientists have perpetuated on the public.
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However, America’s conservative forces as they do in Australia continue to argue otherwise.
Just recently, the Salon magazine listed and published "11 heinous lides conservatives are teaching Americca's school children"
It argued in the article that the righ had a new plan to capture the country's youth vote by taking over the public school cirriculums.
The article said: “If recent elections have taught us anything, it’s that young Americans have taken a decided turn to the left. Young voters delivered Obama the election: the under-44 set voted Obama and the over-45 set broke for Romney. The youngest voters, age 18-29, gave Obama a whopping 60 percent of their vote.
“Now Republicans have a plan to try to recapture the youngest voters out there: Take over the curriculum in public schools, replace education with a bunch of conservative propaganda, and reap the benefits of having a new generation that can’t tell reality from right-wing fantasy,” it said.
The third lie of the eleven published says:
Climate change is a massive hoax scientists have perpetuated on the public.
The American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been hard at work pushing for laws
requiring that climate change denialism be taught in schools as a legitimate
scientific theory. Unfortunately, as Neela Banerjee of the L.A. Times reports,
they’ve already had some serious success: “Texas and Louisiana have introduced
education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a
valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying
climate change.” Other states are taking the “teach the controversy” strategy
that helped get creationism into biology classrooms, asking teachers to treat
climate change like it’s a matter of political debate instead of a
scientifically established fact.
The reality is that climate change is a fact that has overwhelming
scientific consensus. In 2004, Science reviewed the 928 relavant studies
on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 and found that exactly zero
of them denied that climate change was a reality, and most found it had
man-made causes. To claim that climate change is a “controversy” requires one
to believe that there’s a massive conspiracy involving nearly all the
scientists in the world. So, your kids are not only not learning the
realities of climate change, they are also learning, if indirectly, to give
credence to conspiracy theory paranoia.
