Essay by Eric Worrall
Full quote: “I tend to be very gentle and very careful or I’m very focused on hope.”
‘I tend to be very gentle’: how teachers are navigating climate change in the classroom
Published: August 30, 2023 6.12am AEST
Kim Beasy Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania
Chloe Lucas Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
Gretta Pecl Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of TasmaniaClimate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling.
The main international test of 15-year-olds’ progress (which Australia participates in) has just announced the next round of testing will include environmental knowledge alongside English, maths and science literacy.
Australia’s national curriculum (updated last year under the Morrison government) barely mentions climate change. But as a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement, we have committed to develop climate change education policies.
Regardless of what policies or curricula say, our climate is changing. As scientists keep reminding us, urgent action is required.
In our new research, we interviewed nine primary and high school teachers about how they include climate change in their teaching.
We found teachers are becoming the bearers of bad news in the classroom as young people learn about the climate crisis, and they need better training and more support.
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I tend to be very gentle and very careful or I’m very focused on hope.
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Read More: https://theconversation.com/i-tend-to-be-very-gentle-how-teachers-are-navigating-climate-change-in-the-classroom-212370
If there’s one thing which truly upsets me about climate activists, it’s the way they try to indoctrinate kids with their point of view, to “prepare” the next generation for climate change.
Adults have the life experience to reject their politicised climate nonsense, or least be wary of their evidence free claims of climate doom. But climate doom packaged up as education is being inflicted on defenceless kids, who are at a stage in life where they are less skeptical about “information” provided by authority figures.
I also feel sorry for teachers trapped in this web of climate deceit, who are being forced to teach politicised scientific viewpoints they don’t support. Teachers in this situation have an impossible choice, if they stay they can try to minimise the harm, but still have to mislead their students to hang on to their jobs, but if they leave, they might be replaced by a climate fanatic.
There is evidence that such “climate” lessons are doing real harm;
In 2019, Dr. Alex Wodak, a high profile Australian expert on drug rehabilitation, named fear of climate change as one of the major problems driving young people into the kind of despair which leads to addiction to hard drugs, during his testimony to the NSW Government Ice Inquiry.
An excerpt of the transcript is below;
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First, the threshold step is redefining drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than primarily a law enforcement issue. Second, drug treatment has to be expanded and improved until it reaches the same level as other health services. Third, all penalties for personal drug use and possession have to be scrapped.
Fourth, as much of the drug market as possible has to be regulated while recognising that part of the drug market is already regulated, such a methadone treatment, needle and syringe programs, medically supervised injecting centres. It will, of course, never be possible to regulate the entire drug market. We have regulated parts of the drug market before. Edible opium was taxed and regulated in Australia until 1906 and in the United States Coca-Cola contained cocaine until 1903.
Fifth, efforts to reduce the demand for powerful psychoactive drugs in Australia have had limited benefit and require a new focus. Unless and until young Australians feel optimistic about their future, demand for drugs will remain strong. Young people, understandably, want more certainty about their future prospects, including climate, education, jobs and housing affordability. Change will be slow and incremental, like all social policy reform.
As Herb Stein, as adviser to President Nixon said:
Things that cannot go on forever don’t.Drug prohibition cannot go on forever and will be replaced by libertarian paternalism. Thank you.
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Source:https://www.iceinquiry.nsw.gov.au//assets/scii/transcripts/Decriminalisation-round-table/Decriminalisation-Roundtable-Transcript.pdf(available on Wayback Machine)
What can parents do about this?
If your child starts becoming distressed by climate lessons at school, you have to try something. If your child swallows the message of despair, and becomes convinced there is no hope, there is a real risk they will turn to hard drugs or other self destructive or high risk behaviour. You have to intervene before this happens.
Other than voting for different politicians, which I hope you are already doing, some pushback is possible.
The lessons cannot be eliminated from the curriculum of most jurisdictions except at the ballot box, but how they are taught can be modified. Even the most climate enthusiast teacher is sensitive to being accused of doing harm and causing distress, and likely actually cares about the kids – many of them, even the real climate enthusiasts, genuinely believe they are helping by providing necessary knowledge to prepare kids for the future. So if your kids become distressed, there is room to demand more sensitive handling of the subject matter.
Of course, the best intervention is to keep talking to your kids. So long as you have a good relationship with your kids, you are the ultimate authority figure in their lives, at least until they grow up, and can do a lot to mitigate any damage done by other authority figures.
We can’t strip the indoctrination from the curriculum until voters wake up and toss the fanatics out of office, but we can, through talking to our kids, do our best to mitigate the harm and shield our kids from green agents of despair.
It’s very simple: The Big Lie of climate alarmism in the classroom is child abuse.
Why are our children killing themselves at an unprecedented rate? From a US News article:
“Researchers found that between 2008 and 2018, the suicide rate among 13- and 14-year-olds nationwide more than doubled — from roughly two deaths per 100,000 teens in 2008, to five per 100,000 a decade later. It was a stark reversal of a decline that began in the late-1990s.”
Tell children, “You have no future,” and they believe you.
Then they make it real.
Nevada_Geo, you are right about the severe consequences of terrifying children. I also am a Geo and am currently in Nevada. I bet neither of us, or any of the other geologists who visit WATTS, has ever made any impact describing the wild climate cycles and events preserved in the geologic record. I have said many times that 40 meters higher and 140 meters lower sea level is normal, and an excellent marker for warmer or cooler climates, and 1 meter of possible change is not a valid signal warranting proposing a climate change theory. Blank stares and a change of the topic is the usual result.
Schools and teachers view parents as the enemy, unfit to raise their children…
Parents as the Natural Enemy of the School System
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20298920
Sceptical parents will be seen as deniers…
“”Kids can make sceptical parents change their minds on climate change””
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201653-kids-can-make-sceptical-parents-change-their-minds-on-climate-change/
I don’t know what the answer is as the capture is more or less complete. Education has given way to indoctrination and wrongthink isn’t tolerated
Ultimately protecting the kids comes first. Any action can be measured in terms of this goal.
Well, child protection sounds sensible enough, but sense – especially the common variety – doesn’t come into it.
“A couple have taken their four-year-old daughter out of a pre-school after they say they were branded bigots for complaining about a book featuring men in bondage and with trans ‘top-surgery’ scars.
Will and Maria Taylor, of Hull, East Yorkshire, were horrified when they spotted ‘images of men who are partially naked in leather bondage gear’ in the pages of Grandad’s Pride.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12432069/Parents-remove-four-year-old-daughter-pre-school-shown-Grandads-Pride-childrens-book-featuring-men-bondage-gear-women-trans-surgery.html.
The parents were labelled bigots for objecting even though they were undoubtedly right.
I wouldn’t leave my kids in an environment like that.
It’s unbelievable what these radical leftists are doing to school children. They are purposely creating divisions in the nuclear family whereever they can.
In any profession, which requires minimum standards of professional behaviour and/or a signature to a code of ethics without which the professional cannot “practise”, there are sanctions for breaches of that code.
I do not know if Teachers are required to put their professional integrity on the linen this way (my personal experience of Teachers lying, which we proved, suffered no consequence due to a corrupt Head and a Chairman of Governors who simply refused to believe what was written and offered as evidence by said Teachers, suggest they are not) – if not they should be. The concomitant issue is whether, if so constrained, they would feel the heat of professional disciplinary procedures for alleged procedures….and that is very debatable.
It seems to me that the UK is very good at trumpeting professional behaviour for qualified people but applying the Code of ethics is extremely patchy and in some quarters The Blob may well be a significant blocking mechanism. I offer as evidence, off topic for sure, that Dame Alison Rose can admit she discussed the details of a customer’s account when she had no credentials or authority to do so; as a person subject to the highest level of FCA regulations AND SMR, she breached several very key FCA regs – if the FCA do not instigate professional misconduct proceedings, the FCA are not fit for purpose…..aka part of The Blob.( I am 40 + years in Fin Serv, doubly professionally qualified by examination).
In my experience the head teacher sets the tone – if they are ethical, they surround themselves with ethical people. If the head is not an ethical person, they surround themselves with scum.
The worst school my child attended, one of the teachers got into serious trouble, because the education board inspector talked to me first before talking to the teacher. The teacher didn’t know about our conversation, and lied his butt off, which didn’t work out well for him. A few years later the head teacher got done for misappropriation of funds or some such. The school was a total mess. Took years to undo the damage done to my child’s confidence from a few months at that dump, so I’m pretty sensitive about quality of teaching these days.
My child no longer attends that school, but I’ve heard that school is much better now – new head. Some of the teachers who were there before are still there. I met at least one teacher who really made an effort even under the bad headmaster – a real hero to put up with that nightmare situation, with full knowledge of what was happening, just to be there to shield the kids from what would happen if she wasn’t there. Sadly that teacher wasn’t my child’s teacher.
A student in Colorado was kicked out of class and sent home for the crime of having a patch of the Gadsen flag on his backpack:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gadsden-flag
The teacher claimed that the patch was disrupting the class.
When the mother and student returned to the school, and administrator told them that the patch was a symbol of slavery.
Of course the Gadsen flag dates back to the Revolutionary war, not the Civil war, but you can’t expect modern high school teachers to actually know their American history.
He’s back. Even the (D) governor called BS on the school.
Yep! That’s why there’s so much dirty linen hanging out every day.
But otherwise, I think you are trying to lay ethics violations at the door of teachers, when they are merely executing policy or lose their job.
The fact that they were chosen so dumb as to be trainable in patent nonsense and false prophesy, now that’s an issue of concern.
Not every teacher is the same – some are as you describe, trying to do the best they can within the system, but others are committed extremists and activists who are convinced they are right and the rest of the world is wrong.
“It seems to me that the UK is very good at trumpeting professional behaviour”
See Alison Rose….
Former NatWest chief executive Dame Alison Rose is set to receive a £2.4m pay package, a month after she resigned.
She resigned after she admitted to being the source of an inaccurate story about Farage’s finances, following a discussion with [Simon Jack] a BBC journalist.
https://www.insider.co.uk/news/alison-rose-set-24-million-30775406
She lied, he believed her…. that’s professional conduct, British style.
I am not sure about other jurisdictions but in Ontario teachers for the most part are unionized. In my opinion, you can not be considered a professional if you belong to a union. A professional, ideally, is required to place the public good as paramount over their personal benefit, an ideal that is anathema to unionism.
Grrr!! These sods will corrupt
languageprayer itself to avoid the fact that drug abuse is the result of no productive work because these same sods destroyed industry. Sods!But, was it not yesterday we all agreed to the apocalyptic dimension of climastrology dogma? When this little turdette births lingual turdlets like “…teachers…bearers of bad news…” one must not ignore the parallels to the ‘bearers of good news’. This whole thing is an attack on cultural values by someone who is employing all the most …er… convincing aspects of evangelism, including conversion-by-the-sword.
We all see it. We all think about it. Some of us actually say it, because somebody has to. Maybe Charles Rotter is right, it is beyond time to merely report on them, our analysis must always include this religious dimension of Their Great Work. One could say, we are under spiritual attack, and our belief in spirits are irrelevant, because our enemy is utterly convinced the most powerful spirits are on their side, and they will burn the effing place down if that’s what it takes…Because the Spirit is upon them.
Just so’s to be clear, Charles complained about repeat reporting, I do not include him in my fanciful solution or analysis.
I believe one of the reasons climate alarmism is strong in the West, but not so strong in other cultures, is it is a mockery of Judaeo-Christian belief, a drop in secular replacement for faith in God, for people who have lost their faith, yet still feel a god shaped hole in their lives.
Original sin – the development of fossil fuel burning technology.
Prophets – Arrhenius, Al Gore, Michael Mann.
The cross – the suffering of those prophets at the hands of haters.
Armageddon – the battle against big oil.
Paradise – our green energy powered fossil fuel free future.
IMO this is why most greens are so against nuclear. Nuclear power, by allowing sinful technology, capitalism AND zero emissions, is an abomination to them. Green nuclear advocates are like heretics who preach we should all embrace sin. The nuclear option damages their narrative. If nuclear is embraced, their belief structure no longer fits into the god shaped hole in their lives. So they irrationally reject nuclear power, to protect the feelings of comfort they derive from their mockery of faith.
Leftists want their paradise to be global government. This is seen clearly with UN, WHO, WEF, etc., and explains many of the responses to the CV-19 escape/release. In fact, one of the main perpetrators, Fauci, is making his foray into climate change.
Tony Heller does an excellent job in debunking Fauci.
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was not a prophet of doom! Perhaps as one of the reasons why so could be that he lived through the last Swedish Famine of 1867-1869 albeit as a child.
The Famine of 1867–1869 was the last famine in Sweden, and (together with the Finnish famine of 1866–1868) the last major famine in Northern Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_famine_of_1867%E2%80%931869
“… By the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates, especially as regards the colder regions of the earth, ages when the earth will bring forth much more abundant crops than at present, for the benefit of rapidly propagating mankind …”
Worlds in the Making – The Evolution of the Universe
Svante Arrhenius, 1908
Page 63
https://archive.org/details/worldsinmakinge01arrhgoog/page/n83/mode/2up
“… Almost as a passing comment, he (Arrhenius) estimated that coal burning would drive a steady rise in CO2 levels of about 50% in 3,000 years, a prospect he found entirely rosey. At a lecture that same year (1896?), he declared: “We would then have some right to indulge in the pleasant belief that our descendants, albeit after many generations, might live under a milder sky and in less barren surroundings than is our lot at present.” …”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/jun/30/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment2
I wonder if Greta is aware of that history? She is distantly related…
Of course Arrhenius wasn’t aware of the affect of the global circulation system on CO2 as opposed to a greenhouse…
Amen.
Thanks Eric I’ll be sharing.
Reality disagrees with your opinion. There is no correlation between economic growth and drug use.
My own response was to home-school my kids. I caught holy h— for it, thirty years ago, but so far my sons have stayed away from drugs and are scornful of bull dressed up as “science.” My daughters were more inclined to be fooled than my sons were, but even they saw the writing on the wall as they reached age forty, and are considering getting their kids out of the public schools.
Having run an outdoors-oriented Daycare for 15 years, I am very aware of how modern children do not play outdoors the way I did, back in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A guilt trip is laid on even the very young, where they feel they harm nature by walking in the woods. Schools feel the way to teach about nature is with a video. The way to handle a boy in a classroom is to drug him. It is disgusting.
Parents need to wake up to the fact there is an actual animosity towards healthy American youth, on the part of the “left”.
Be proud.
Caleb,
I’m a great admirer of your writings about bout your childcare facility and on the Climate in general and Arctic in particular.
Keep up the good work and don’t let them grind you down.
“modern children do not play outdoors the way I did, back in the 1950’s and 1960’s“
I sense small-town/rural America. Why? Because that is how I grew up. Even than Big-City kids must have behaved differently — I’ve seen pictures.
If there are good answers to current childhood questions, they are not obvious to me.
[full disclosure: We raise bird-dogs, not children.] 🙂
Actually city kids did have an outdoor life; they knew every back-alley short-cut, and stickball in the street was common. For escapism there was a lot of sky the Drifters sung about in “Up On The Roof”.
Caleb, what you are doing is helping our children more than the entire faculty of any Ivy League school put together. Congratulations on your positive impact!
My daughter had to fight with the school so that they would release her son to walk home by himself – all of 3 quiet city blocks.
I think it was Upton Sinclair, that said: “It´s difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not “understanding” it”.
Words is tools – and language itself is an algorithm. Climate Change(s), now the era of global boiling, is basically based on runtime guarantees.
The First Global Revolution, page 108 and 115: “The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. States have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by designating external enemies. The scapegoat practice is as old as mankind itself. When things become too difficult at home, divert attention by adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose” … “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples”.
To analyze these kinds of algorithms, probability theory is used to provide runtime guarantees that hold with overwhelming probability. That was 1991, this is 2023. Take fx, the word water, in 2008, the first climate anxiety case was diagnosed when a boy refused to drink water, because, if he did that millions would die.
Beside – for some – the wellknown Semmelweiseffect or reflex, facts do not cease to excist just because they are ignored, three qoutes falls into my mind when it comes to global boiling and the question about runtime guarantees people and espicially teachers should know about. Science progress one funeral at a time, it is never setteld, 1+1 is proven, but you cant use the word “proven” in science … science is a culture of doubt, the value of uncertainty … science is about power not the truth.
We have two thumbs, I think we can all, give a thumb up that climate changes excist, is climate changes real, yes, is the era of global boiling invented for the purpose, going from soft language, climate changes, to “boilling” language, yes, and the consensus is based on runtime guarantees, when we hit 2025 AGW can celebrate it´s 30 year “consensus” birthday.
Words is as an algorithm tools. Any teacher, should ask them self, can I also give the thumbs up when it comes to the question, is “global boiling” real or invented to the purpose, and ask themself this one simpel question, is MSM science about power and only a grain of the truth, yes or no.
In short terms, based on greek history, the titel for this simple question is: Psyche, meet Pneuma.
And Eric … you published this article yesterday: “John Kerry: Climate Deniers “lash out at the truth tellers, and label indisputable evidence as hysteria” … “… humanity is inexorably threatened by humanity itself …”. John Kerry speech 24th August.
page 115 in the first global revolution: The Common Enemy of Humanity Is Man.
Words is tools. The word inexorably, is to be compared from GW (1991) to “global boiling”.
Totalitarian stooges aim to insert an ideological divide between kids and the reality they should have inherited. It’s evil but it’s what they do and what they are.
People complain about this indoctrination but almost nothing is done about it. Heartland and CO2 Coalition have some skeptical education materials but they are mostly too technical and/or specialized for classroom use.
Four years ago I launched an effort to post skeptical materials at http://ccdedu.blogspot.com/. Could not get funding, including crowd funding.
See https://www.gofundme.com/f/climate-change-debate-education
In the US we are awash with websites offering free alarmist education content, much of it federally funded. We have almost nothing to counter that, so if teachers wanted to teach the debate instead of alarmism there are almost no resources for that.
People complain about this indoctrination but almost nothing is done about it
Try this source:
The Real Climate Crisis
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-real-climate-crisis
Fossil Fuels: The Big Picture
https://www.prageru.com/video/fossil-fuels-the-big-picture
Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-you-should-love-fossil-fuel
Fossil Fuels: Greener than You Think
https://www.prageru.com/video/fossil-fuels-greener-than-you-think
Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?
https://www.prageru.com/video/do-97-of-climate-scientists-really-agree
What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal?
https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-the-deal-with-the-green-new-deal
Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?
https://www.prageru.com/video/can-we-rely-on-wind-and-solar-energy
Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?
https://www.prageru.com/video/can-climate-models-predict-climate-change
Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?
https://www.prageru.com/video/climate-change-what-do-scientists-say
Climate Change: What’s So Alarming?
https://www.prageru.com/video/climate-change-whats-so-alarming
Is Climate Change Our Biggest Problem?
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-climate-change-our-biggest-problem
The Paris Climate Agreement Won’t Change the Climate
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-paris-climate-agreement-wont-change-
the-climate
Are Electric Cars Really Green?
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-electric-cars-really-green
Is There Really a Climate Emergency?
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-there-really-a-climate-emergency
Confessions of an Environmentalist
https://www.prageru.com/video/confessions-of-an-environmentalist
What’s Wrong with Wind and Solar?
https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-wrong-with-wind-and-solar
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
https://www.prageru.com/video/how-much-energy-will-the-world-need
Do We Have to Destroy the Earth to Save It?
https://www.prageru.com/video/do-we-have-to-destroy-the-earth-to-save-it
The Truth about CO2
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-truth-about-co2
Why I Left Greenpeace
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-i-left-greenpeace
What They Haven’t Told You about Climate Change
https://www.prageru.com/video/what-they-havent-told-you-about-climate-change
Trees Are the Answer
https://www.prageru.com/video/trees-are-the-answer
How Dangerous Is Nuclear Waste?
https://www.prageru.com/video/how-dangerous-is-nuclear-waste
Nuclear Energy: Abundant, Clean, and Safe
https://www.prageru.com/video/abundant-clean-and-safe
The Great Texas Freeze of 2021
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-great-texas-freeze-of-2021
What is Crony Capitalism?
https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-crony-capitalism
The Best Time to Be Alive
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-best-time-to-be-alive
PraerU has been introduced to Florida schools.
https://time.com/6301287/florida-prageru-education-schools/
Florida continues to be a model for the Westen world.
Thanks, Charles!
I’m chess coach at 5 schools here in Indiana and did 100+ speaking engagements about weather and science at local schools as a tv meteorologist to talk about weather until I left many years ago.
Also with 3 grand kids in the same wonderful school corporation. They support my chess programs and allow me to use their schools to host chess tournaments.
I”m at these schools doing chess 4 days a week and have a great relationship with all the teachers, that are on my mass email list which includes special weather updates for Winter storms and severe weather threats.
So I work with our local education system but would be very hesitant to teach these kids(I had 320 from K-12 last year).my authentic science position about the current climate optimum.
not necessarily because the school system would object to the position but they probably would. Really because of what the kids would tell their parents.
This is a pretty conservative area. However, climate science taught today is more politics, unfortunately. If kids went home and told their parents that a meteorologist/chess coach from their school told them that instead of a climate crisis, life on this greening planet is experiencing a climate optimum, I’m certain that some parents would be upset that think it’s a crisis and teachers teaching otherwise would no longer be so enthusiastic supporting my chess programs.
I can’t jeopardize the chess!
7 years ago, I did my last large speaking engagement to 4 classrooms of 5th graders to talk about weather, which they were studying in their science class.
The only thing that I remember about that hour was when I told the kids about how carbon dioxide was a beneficial gas, greening up the planet and increasing crop yields because of the law of photosynthesis and their science teacher said out loud, “Wow, I never thought of that!!”
Didn’t surprise me.
3 years earlier, when our grand daughter was in 2nd grade at the same school, she was telling my wife about how she learned that carbon dioxide is pollution in her science class.
My wife immediately reported this to me, knowing that I was the chess coach and an atmospheric scientist and asked “what are you going to do about it?”
Nothing. Almost every school is teaching the same thing in every city and every state, with exceptions like Florida. They’ve been indoctrinated into fake climate crisis religion and my communications about it are with adults in venues like this.
I focus on teaching chess and developing analytical thinking, good sportsmanship and other benefits from the “sport for the brain” because I can maximize that effort in unison with support from the locals schools.
Fighting a school or schools or teacher on climate change not only might not yield many positive results, in this extremely political and divisive current environment, it would create enemies in a place where I need the most support for chess.
Prager is very good at what they do but few if any of these listed items fit into the science curriculum. They deal with public discussion issues, not classroom lesson topics. You have to start with what is specifically taught and address that. No one is doing that.
I did a detailed analysis of what is actually taught in K-12 science classes for DOE’s Office of Science. See my http://www.stemed.info/
The structure of science education is very specific. Fitting into it is not simple.
Story tip
Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
by Joshua M. Pearce 1,*ORCID and Richard Parncutt 2
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074
“”A future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned,” the authors report“”
What rubbish.
World population was c. 1 bn in 1800 rose to 2 bn by 1930 and now, less than 100 years later is over 8 bn all facilitated by the use of fossil fuels. The authors need to take a reality check!
I would say the authors need to eliminate completely their own personal carbon footprints. Freaking morons.
Their elimination starts in the bowels.
Start from there and work upwards, it should be a very short journey to the brain.
There are very few opportunities to demostrate enlightenment principles in real life, so I am rather looking forward to the day one of my grand-kids brings home some of this garbage. I have great faith in their intellect and have no doubt that, patiently presented, they will “get it”.
I won’t be shy about warning them not to just take any man’s word for something important. Nullius in verba! And of course if a claim withstands every challenge they can devise, then yes, accept it—at least for the moment.
We are being presented with a teachable moment even if we don’t like it. (That is not to suggest I am OK with public funds being wasted on this rubbish nor that I am OK with teachers who connive at it.)
Australian Gummint’s worst kept secret-
‘That’s really sus’: Government climate crisis report kept ‘top secret’ (msn.com)
We’re all doomed!
“We all got it comin’ kid.”
— William Munny
Hurry up with the AI-driven educational choice model.
Telling kids they are all born on Death Row, is the Babylonian Captor’s trick used millennia ago by the Mother of all Empires (Rome being the w*re of Babylon, today’s Empire being its spawn).
Since that barabarism we have the Filioque, the Council of Florence 1460, actually since the New Testament.
Filioque – creativity proceeds from the Creator AND the kid – to put it in today’s words.
Imagine that, kids have a power, Capax Dei, to actually create things never before seen!
All oligarchies attack this Filioque idea – it makes kids uppity!!!!
Be uppity, create, kids!
All kids should be more creative, I will support that!
You however, Bonbon, need to lie down in a darkened room with a cool wet flannel over your forehead a little more often – I’m afraid your brain is overheating!
The “impossible choice” and being replaced by a “climate fanatic” should be handled thus:
I would tell the students I was being forced to indoctrinate them with scientific nonsense. After my resignation you will likely encounter a climate fanatic, a cult-like person. Unless you too leave school, you will have to humor such ideological ill-informed people. Be attuned to cognitive dissonance, poor science, and hypocrisy. Do your best. Good luck and goodbye.
In the UK the curriculum is set by the Department of Education and the exam boards set the exams which secondary school children take based on that curiculum. If a teacher does not teach to the curriculum it could harm the life chances of his or her pupils. The teacher might themselves have doubts about climate change but basically have to teach the curriculum.
My experience, as a high school Physics and Chemistry teacher now retired, was not our science department. It was the social studies department which was spreading the propaganda. The students would ask us about what they were being taught and we referred to scientific literature and sites (like this one) that provide a non alarmist counter argument. The students were becoming so well informed that the senior social studies teacher forbade the students from asking us for information about “climate change”.
Of course. And for the same reason that defense attorneys regularly use their peremptory strikes to prevent from serving on the jury engineers and other hard sciences jurors. STEM minds are data-driven, logical thinkers. AGW is mere conjecture promoted by emotion-laden propaganda, exactly what a typical social studies teacher would fall for.
STORY TIP
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane came onto the Florida mainland near Cedar Key on September 4th. Much of the reporting about this hurricane is from the FL Keys, especially Long Key on Labor Day. Hurricane Idalia came to land at Keaton Beach, about 58 miles north.
The 58 miles farther north is a result of “ocean boiling” or something – not sure – investigating now. 🙂
The gentle, soothing, hiss of the snake.
“Trussssst in meeeee…..”
From the article: “Regardless of what policies or curricula say, our climate is changing. As scientists keep reminding us, urgent action is required.”
Don’t believe these people, kids.
The Earth’s climate is always in motion, which means it is always changing, but it changes within certain parameters, not getting too hot and not getting too cold.
People who tell you urgent action is required to “fix” the climate, don’t know what they are talking about. They are misleading you, unintentionally or intentionally. Either way, you are being misled. Don’t be fooled!
I do a lot of blogging on Quora. Teachers and professors are the most delusional fanatics about climate and energy. When we disagree (always) there’s never more than three exchanges before they block my replies. I don’t know why they behave that way, but as we know academia is dominated with liberal/progressives who are fragile and famous for requiring “safe spaces”. They shun facts and ideas that don’t fit their worldview IMHO.
Rulers require certain things in the ruled: Topping the list are passivity and docility, which are the consequence of resignation and hopelessness. The fear, paralysis, and stagnation that these sadistic, sociopathic narcissists instill in their captive audiences are not the unfortunate byproducts of the indoctrination. They’re the entire point of it. Thinking people can’t be ruled and ambitious people don’t stagnate. At this stage the evidence for the “educators'” malevolence is so overwhelming that no one who loves his children continues to subject them to such blatant abuse. He removes them from that situation today, and figures out how to homeschool them tomorrow. He does whatever it takes to save their minds from the monsters in government schools.