Get a copy of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg:
Posted on 11/27/2006 5:08:31 PM PST by Nachum
My daughter came home frightened to death after her "physics" class was shown the Al Gore movie. I would love for FReepers who have good source material to help us refute her teacher.
The teacher is a rabid democrat and obviously shoved this down the kids' throats. The class are kids, ranging in ages of 16 to 18 (juniors and seniors).
Any links to printable material would be greatly appreciated.
Your daughter is between 16 and 18 years old and this scared her?
You don't need us to research anything for you. You need to sit down with her and see what the problem is unless she is just a ninny.
Have her record her teacher's rants using her phone or ipod; then send them to Fox News or another reliable conservative outlet.
Don't try refuting the teacher. Rapid leftists do not listen to logic and debate is impossible. Make your goal the embarrassment of the looney leftist. Then he will crawl back into his hole. Don't go to the administration or principal either. Go to the media.
Does she come home scared from other comedies?
She has a right to be scared. It's insane when this junk science CRAP is being shoved down the throats of our kids. THAT is scary - and OUTRAGEOUS!
Al Gore is kinda freaky.
I would just wait until she's gotten her last report card at that school and complain to the school board. Junk science and partisan propaganda should not be in the schools.
Does the teacher need to be mocked in a parody song?
Too late now...she already saw the movie. Now she will NEVER get it out of her head!
Really.......calm down. She's a big girl and have her do some research ON HER OWN! Don't do it for her!
When you complain, the standard answer is "Why, you're the only one... Nobody else has a problem with it." Of course, even if 90 per cent of the parents complain, that's their story. Divide and conquer. Be sure to google "Delphi Technique" on how the modern "education" establishment works their agenda.
I could understand if your daughter came home tired after watching that, but scared? She needs to come on here and get flamed every once in a while, that will toughen her up.
Just have her ask her teacher what caused the LAST global warming, when the ice started to melt. Something caused it, and it wasn't man.
I will guarantee you that if she is scared it isn't from seeing a movie that is junky. It is because she is either a frightened teenager of many things or because her parents act like her brain will be scared by this experience. I suspect the latter.
It is outrageous that a teacher uses this crap as a lesson in school. I would complain to the chair of the Sci dept and to the principle and to the Board of Ed.
Why in hades would a parent try to turn this into a media event for crying out loud. That is scarier to me than a dumb movie.
Heck, she is a teenager. I would have spent the movie flirting especially if it was dark.
LOL!
Maybe she was scared because she enjoyed the movie and was worriied her Mother would go balistic! THink about it,,kids love to think their Parents are wrong but are scared of drama queen moms who might cause a scene.
School periods are the perfect length of time for a power nap.
It's an all girl's private parochial school. Not much flirting goes on there. :)
Try Dixy Lee Ray's books.
Tell the teacher it is Global Norming, get used to it.
Get a copy of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg:
have her ask the teacher - how did the ice ages end? didn't the earth warm up during those periods of time? were there any "man made" factors involved in those warming periods?
no.
She needs to visit a "Rudy" thread!
Oh, I can get the pic now. All those little girls in cute uniforms outdoing each other being "scared"..she needs to get a grip and you need to tell her to "get a grip".
Teenager girls love to have great emotional fear fests,,they need a Mother to tell them not to be drama queens, ninnies, scaredy cats and so on.
I agree the research should be done by her. It will cure her fear super fast.
meanwhile you need a nice glass of a cabernet,,it will make things ever so much better. And soon she will marry and her dramas will belong to her husband. Man that is a relief.
I feel for you. A few months ago, in a college class of mine, we were forced to watch 'Roger and Me.' Having known about it a month before we were shown it, I made good use of my time by digging up all the dirt I could get on 'Roger and Me,' so after we watched the film, I used the knowledge I found to tear into the film, and expose all its holes.
That being said, to assume the entire movie is crap would be foolish. To deny that humans are having a substantial and negative impact on the planet is simply ludicrous.
It may be quite some time before the actual truth of the full extent of that impact comes out.
Don't these movies have to pass through a screening process?
They can't just show any old movie.
In fact my understanding these days is that there is a curriculum approval process.
You can also counter this teachers propaganda with demands that the myths pushed by algore be countered with the overwhelming science of the other side.
LOL!
Either you forgot your sarcasm tag....or you need to do some research about "global warming."
Embrace it as a chance to counter it hard with the facts.
My eldest daughter saw it and said it was good. She said Al Gore was funny. I wrote her out of the will shortly thereafter.
I only think it is crap because of Al Gore's delusion that he will save the world. I don't know about global warming. I suspect we have a roll but suspect there is really not much to do about it but adapt. Besides I will be dead by the time it gets really hot. And I live in Louisiana,,we are already in hell down here and it's not that bad, really.
Change schools then.
Ha!
I was just looking at Druge and the forecast for hurricanes during the 2006 season. Show her that. It will show her that experts are not always expert at predicting weather.
Junkscience.com is probably your best online source of info. It may take some research through their archives, but you will find a veritable treasure trove of info.
Here's some links to some rebuttals to Al Gore:
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 1: "Pollution"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05621.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 2: "Hurricane Catarina"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05623.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 3: "Warming Rate"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05622.cfm
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore -- Episode 4: "Moulins"
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05624.cfm
There was also an article, a few weeks back, where they completely debunk the use of climate models in predicting Global Warming. Very technical, but they openly challenged any climate modeler to refute their conclusions, a challenge which still stands.
One of the problems with research these days is that the left has tirelessly worked on a strategy of getting "the furthest with the mostest." If the information isn't accurate, they want to insure that plenty of it is out there so only the smartest and driven kids will wade through the haystack to find the needle. The left thinks that infinite terabytes of BS equals facts. What kid these days wants to pour past several hundred pages of leftist wishful thinking to get to one truth?
My kids are constantly challenged at school, at church, and even among family members about what they believe. We talk about it. I don't think you can change the teacher. But you can, and should help your kid reconcile conflicting information from people in positions of authority. As long as they can do that, they don't need to beat the teacher in an argument. Frankly, one of the things you have to learn growing up is how to pick your battles, and don't pick battles with the boss unless you feel you have to.
If outside of class, your daughter can tell her friends why she doesn't buy what the teacher is selling, she will have more positive influence than by arguing with the teacher.
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