What Are They Teaching Your Kids About Global Warming? ["scientists" upset]

National Journal ^ | 6/26/2014 | Clare Foran

[BCW]

I watch Suspicious Observer on You Tube every mornimg...and so should school kids....and this man made BS global warmimg debate would be over!

No longer is the public schools promoting patriotism...no longer teaching the truth of history...no longer instructing students how to think for themselves.....tbis society is falling...and with the students today graduating without any form of social skills...will become dormant soon enough...

[reformedliberal]

“...this period of time in our history will be looked at as the Dark Ages Part Deux.”
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Only if we managed to survive it and logic, real scientific method and common sense again become the norm. Otherwise, this era might become known as the “New Enlightenment” (shudder)

[TigersEye]

Here is a very short article your students would understand completely.

(excerpted)

No smoking hot spot

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

[Peet]

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is underway and human activity is the primary cause.

 "JUST the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
    As he landed his crew with care;
  Supporting each man on the top of the tide
    By a finger entwined in his hair.

 "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
    That alone should encourage the crew.
  Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
    What I tell you three times is true."

 From:  "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll

[TigersEye]

said Colorado science teacher Cheryl Manning. "I want my students to come away understanding that human activity has caused global warming. But I don't tell them that explicitly."

The scandal of fiddled global warming dataThe US has actually been cooling since the Thirties,

[Campion]

It’s a textbook example of the “bandwagon fallacy” anyway.

[Blennos]

Here's why: Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is underway and human activity is the primary cause. This has been debunked so many times that every time I read it I want to scream, but they still keep throwing it out. Sigh...

Exactly. I stopped reading right there. This article is not worthy of my time.

[cincinnati65]

cientists insist that teaching the controversy—and not the consensus—is a dereliction of duty and a propagation of falsehood.

And in a nutshell, that's what's wrong with "education" today. It's all about teaching rote facts (and the theory du jour as fact) instead of giving students the TOOLS they need to succeed after school.

Math and English are basics. The sciences are more about teaching the scientific method and logic. History/Social Studies develops critical thinking.

Innovation comes from CHALLENGING the consensus, not accepting it. If not, we'd all still be believing the earth was flat, and that the sun revolved around the earth.

[Flick Lives]

The scientific consensus, however, has no equivalent political agreement.

"Scientific consensus" is an oxymoron promoted by Marxists. If it is real science, it is provable thru experimentation and observation. There is no majority vote on E=MC².

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is underway and human activity is the primary cause.

Flat out lie.

[Morpheus2009]

Exactly, the majority of academia was for the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, look where that idea is now.

[Morpheus2009]

I agree. What’s more is the rediculous alarmist extent that plenty of people go to on the matter. Really? 6 feet of sea level rise in approximately 85 years (2013 to 2099). What does that tell you? Vast groups of people can be wrong, through a behavior known as groupthink.

[tbw2]

The school text books teach that the world is getting warmer, along with eco-rationing as the solution.
I counter that the world was warmer when the dinosaurs were running around, since some of them ran around in semi-tropical forests near the poles at that time. Also brought up that it was warmer in other periods between ice ages, so we may get warmer as part of that cycle before getting REALLY cold. It is interesting that no one at school has taught them about ice ages, and to them it is only a series of movies.
I bring up that the sun is the major source of warming. “No, it’s CO2.” Then we talk about why it gets colder when the sun goes down, and warms up once it comes up.
When they are older, I’ll break out video of Penn and Teller’s BS show on Global Warming. They are liberal, but it is still a great rebuttal.

[wbill]

Georgia teacher Virginia Kirima asks her 11th-grade environmental-science students to debate whether climate change is natural or man-made. According to Kirima, there is no right or wrong answer. ....brilliant. Love this teacher. That's the way it should be handled, IMO.

high school teacher Heather Wygant ensures her students understand the consensus.....:I also spend a lot of time talking about misconceptions and why people don't believe things because I don't want there to be any confusion," she explained.

In other words...."Shut up and believe what I tell you", she explained.

[JimRed]

Here's why: Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is underway and human activity is the primary cause.

Primary conclusion: 97% of climate "scientists" are looking to keep their gravy train of research grants running unencumbered. And they'll happily lie to do so.

[jyro]

They should teach the truth, the climate on earth has been in continuous change for 4 billion years. It never stays the same in the historical time frame.