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Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement

Charles Rotter — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university's shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda.

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Scientific Method Restored to Science Education in North Carolina

Guest Blogger — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Challengers of the status quo are more likely to be met with ad hominem than data.

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Climate Classroom: “I tend to be very gentle” about Telling Kids they’re Going to Die?

Eric Worrall — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Full quote: "I tend to be very gentle and very careful or I’m very focused on hope."

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Aussie Academics: Scaring School Children Improves their Climate Behaviour

Eric Worrall — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Apparently its OK to step up climate education, because the kids are scared anyway, and scaring them more "engages them with positive actions".

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Though Beleaguered, Science Education is Alive in America

Guest Blogger — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

We were, nonetheless, encouraged by finding so many educators hungry for honest discovery and, in some cases, grateful for scientific information utterly new to them.

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Challenging the NSTA’s Position Statement on Climate Change

Charles Rotter — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, the NSTA has taken a strong position that is antithetical to the scientific method, critical thinking and open scientific debate.

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Welsh College Trains Climate Disruptors of the Future

Eric Worrall — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

"It's learning from being out there in nature and experiencing things with our whole bodies, rather than just reading about it and knowing it in an intellectual way."

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Claim: Climate Change is Being Downgraded in University Textbooks

Eric Worrall — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:00:00 +0000

There is evidence university science teachers might be deliberately skipping over climate indoctrination.

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Connecticut Just Made Climate Change Studies Compulsory

Eric Worrall — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

I wonder if there is a case for challenging compulsory climate studies on the grounds that belief in catastrophic climate change is a state religion?

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Claim: Climate Change is Making US Classrooms Too Hot

Eric Worrall — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Apparently in the South schools are fitted with air conditioning, but in Philadelphia and Baltimore schools cannot afford a bit of insulation and some air conditioners.

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Climate Activists Stepping Up Efforts to Ensnare YOUR Children

Eric Worrall — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Having failed to win over adults, climate activists appear to be stepping up efforts to impress their viewpoint on children entrusted to their care, with strategies ranging from climate themed early learning stories to activism workshops for teenagers.

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Claim: Climate Fanatic Teacher Refused Kids Aircon

Eric Worrall — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

A parent is calling for an Queensland State High School teacher to be suspended, after the teacher allegedly berated and insulted their class, when the kids asked for the aircon to be switched on.

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Yale-NUS Professor: Climate Lessons Need to “Demonstrate an Emotional Orientation”

Eric Worrall — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0000

According to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Yale-NUS associate professor of social sciences and humanities, we have to lead students to express correct emotional responses to climate change issues, rather than just presenting them with facts and letting them draw their own conclusions.

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Death spiral of American academia

Charles Rotter — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

This climate is eroding free speech, with overt censorship by rejecting publication of results with real (or simply apparent) connection to right-of-center policies, as well as tremendous self- censorship both in the classroom and in published academic papers. Scientists (including me) rationally submit papers that will not ruffle feathers, which itself has the obvious effect of reducing the disagreement often required for scientific progress.

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SCMP: China Teaching Children to Limit their Climate Activism

Eric Worrall — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0000

According to the South China Morning Post, China wants kids to learn about climate change, but is trying to moderate the message to encourage children to focus on personal climate action rather than joining protest movements.

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‘Deniers’ of the World, Unite!

Charles Rotter — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Much is made of the fact that former "climate change" advocates have now defected to the side of reason. But much more needs to be done to defeat climate change propaganda. The latest defection, as we’ve noted here, is Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. His arguments are well-documented but he’s been denied a voice in the major media.

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The Conversation: “Climate Change is the Most Important Mission for Universities”

Eric Worrall — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you thought the most important mission of universities was to provide kids with professional skills to help them get a better job, think again.…

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BBC: Climate Education is Failing Because Some Graduates Become Oil Executives

Eric Worrall — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:00:53 +0000

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A child activist interviewed by the BBC is disappointed that some “educated people” resist climate indoctrination enough to accept jobs from oil companies. Climate change:…

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Are Stagnant Academic Standards Related to Fear of Climate Change?

Eric Worrall — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:00:07 +0000

Guest essay by Eric Worrall US academic standards are stagnating, despite huge investment in trying to improve the education system. Maybe its about time politicians and academics started asking why.…

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Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims

Guest Blogger — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Important new project provides videos and short non-technical issue briefs for students Paul Driessen It’s time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change…

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