Hurdles
Teaching climate change in schools - the next great battle in education. First, South Dakota put forth a measure to teach public school students that climate change wasn't real. Now, residents in Mesa County, Colorado have presented a petition to their school board asking that science teachers remove climate change lessons from their curriculum - this according to change.org. Here's some good news, by way of an op-ed in the Denver Post. Climate change happens to be an important scientific issue, and it would be foolish to ban its discussion simply because some teachers are too unsophisticated — or too ideological — to distinguish between propaganda and an appropriate lesson plan. In fact, climate change is a model topic for teaching students the complexities and uncertainties that characterize evolving scientific theories, while introducing them to a range of opinion among scholars — from MIT's Richard S. Lindzen to NASA's James Hansen — as well as the "consensus" view represented by the scandal-plagued Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Why we need rights of nature. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the leading sponsor of a resolution that
would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating
greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The Alaska Republican said the EPA regulation of carbon dioxide would
have a negative economic impact on her constituents by threatening
projects such as the construction of a natural gas pipeline. Read more of this nonsense HERE. It failed, and here's the reaction.
Scientists having to sue to defend their findings. "If I sit back and do nothing to clear my name, these libels will stay
on the Internet forever," Weaver stated. "They'll poison the factual
record, misleading people who are looking for reliable scientific
information about global warming," - prominent Canadian climatologist Andrew Weaver who is suing the media for libel. Read more of his story HERE.
