Climate change class required now for UC San Diego degree.  A climate change course is required learning for all incoming freshmen at the University of California San Diego starting this semester.  The "Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement" will help students learn about the "fundamental challenge that we face in the university [or] on this planet in the coming hundred years," Professor Sarah Gille told The College Fix on a phone interview.  Gille, a climate scientist, served on the faculty senate workgroup with the administration to finalize the requirement.  The 30 percent of the class content "should be focused on understanding and addressing climate change and its impacts," according to an academic senate memo.

Democrats Want 'Climate Literacy' In Schools As Actual Literacy Slips.  The Democratic Party is pushing to increase "literacy" on climate change-related material in America's schools while students are performing poorly with respect to actual literacy.  The party's education platform mentions the importance of "climate literacy" for American K-12 students several times, emphasizing the purported need for students to be able to understand and interpret information relating to climate change.  Meanwhile, the average reading score for both fourth and eighth grade students in 2022 had fallen by three points relative to 2019, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).  "We will equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand complex scientific issues, counter the rising tide of denialism by promoting environmental and climate literacy, and reverse the Trump Administration's cuts to the National Environmental Education Act," the platform states.

Climate Indoctrination Accelerates As The Narrative Breaks Down.  Following the get-'em-while-they're-young school of thought, the climate agitators are targeting kindergarteners.  NASA's Climate Kids webpage, for instance, says "global warming will affect everyone on Earth."  While admitting that "fossil fuels have changed the course of human history," NASA also says "these good things come at a cost.  The cost is pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground.  Global warming will be the biggest problem of all."  On another of the "Kids" pages, NASA claims that in an era of "rising" global temperatures, "almost all climate scientists agree that a big cause of that is the burning of fossil fuels.  The warming could lead to rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, and more severe weather.  It is a challenge that we will have to deal with in the coming years."  Remember, this proselytizing is intended to program kindergarteners.  And it's only the beginning.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is also dedicated to "educating" kids about "human-induced climate change" and making sure that they are afraid to burn fossil fuels.

Young eco-catastrophists are clueless about real nature.  [Scroll down]  [A] survey has shown that one in five British children has never fed a duck. [...] The terrible irony is that those young people detached from nature are increasingly terrified about its loss; barely a school day goes by without lectures on pollution and plastics.  TikTok is ablaze with footage of Mediterranean infernos, and Just Stop Oil protesters are just the latest doom-mongers giving children eco-anxiety — identified as a "chronic fear of environmental cataclysm". [...] But fanning the flames of fear is easier than planting seeds of hope, hence the 2021 global survey led by the University of Bath which revealed that three-quarters of young people described the future as "frightening" and 56 percent said they thought humanity was doomed.  That's what life mediated through a smartphone looks like.

Teacher contract negotiations set to begin in Chicago — they want 'climate action' for 'green' schools.  If progressive Democrats remain designated as the custodians of education and learnedness, we're doomed.  In March of this year, I wrote a blog on the impending expiration of the employment contract between the city of Chicago and its teachers — that agreement has now expired, and the two parties are set to enter into official re-negotiations this Friday.  As we're only a few days out, we've gotten a glimpse into the demands from the teachers, and though the absurdity isn't surprising, it's still absurd; the fact that these people are not qualified to mold the minds of our youth, based on their ludicrous proposals alone, needs to be iterated.

Teachers Union Issues List of Climate Demands as Students Struggle to Read at Grade Level.  The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is making climate-related demands in contract negotiations as the city's students continue to struggle mightily in the classroom, according to E&E News.  The CTU will push the city to include initiatives like electric school buses, green jobs training programs for students and reducing emissions from buildings with solar panels and other retrofits, among other initiatives, according to E&E News.  Those demands are being made while 2023 testing data shows that about 75% of Chicago's public school students were unable to read at grade level and 83% of students were behind grade level proficiency in math, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.  The union is also demanding the removal of all lead pipes in school buildings, replacement of windows that do not open and the creation of a "climate champion" role at each school to organize climate-related initiatives and activities, according to E&E News.

The irresponsibility of 'two years to save the planet'.  Hurrah, we can all relax.  We have been granted an extra two years to save the planet.  So suggested Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in a speech at Chatham House yesterday. [...] Those of us who are old enough and wise enough to have heard it all before can shrug it off as a load of old nonsense, but it is a very different story with impressionable youth.  An international survey of 10,000 people aged between 16 and 25 by the University of Bath in 2021 showed just how damaging this kind of language is.  It found that 45 percent of people in this age group were so worried about climate change that it was affecting their day to day life, while 56 percent said that they thought humanity was doomed and 40 percent said they were hesitant to have children because they would be bringing them up in an uninhabitable world.  No reasoned interpretation of the evidence would say that humanity is doomed by a changing climate, even if some climatic trends are inconvenient for human societies.  But for some reason it has become acceptable for public officials and world leaders to spin narratives of doom.

Green Indoctrination:  Greta, UN, NEA, CFR Go After Our Kids.  The kids are back in school — just in time to be rallied in support of the United Nations' latest effort to shackle the planet with freedom-destroying schemes that are aimed, ostensibly, at saving us all from the dread effects of "climate change."  Let the greenwashing/brainwashing begin!  Greta "How dare you!" Thunberg, the screechy, preachy, snotty, sneering, sanctimonious version of Pippi Longstocking, is back once again to lead a global mob of young climate zealots in the push to "#EndFossilFuels."  If that crusade were to succeed, it would amount to nothing less than civilizational suicide — not to mention an energy-starvation genocide that would take the lives of billions of our fellow human beings.  But Greta and her fanatical legions are oblivious to these concerns, as they race to combat a nonexistent "existential crisis."  The Swedish sensation became an immediate darling of the establishment media in 2018, when, as a 15-year-old moppet, she was pictured leading a school strike demanding that Sweden's parliament take action against global warming.  She is now 20 years old and an idol to juvenile activists the world over.

America's schools are becoming training grounds for climate change activists.  Just when you thought we had made progress by exposing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT)-infused curricula throughout our education system, we now have a new distraction:  the climate change agenda.  States like New Jersey, California, Connecticut, New York, and others, are advancing legislation to require climate change lessons in every K-12 subject — including foreign languages, math and physical education.  This blatant attempt to cultivate an entire generation of Greta Thunbergs at a time when proficiency levels are abysmal should incite outrage among parents, teachers, and students.

Activist Educators Are Brainwashing Our Kids About The So-Called Climate Crisis.  Hammering K-12 school children nonstop about the dangers of climate change in every class, even math, art and gym, is child abuse.  Barely one-third of fourth graders can read or do math at grade level, according to the latest national scores, but climate activists are demanding kids hear about global warming in every class.  New Jersey mandates it, and now Connecticut is following suit as the school year opens.  In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is requiring every public school participate in Climate Action Day.  The climate push is nakedly political, spearheaded in New Jersey by the governor's wife, first lady Tammy Murphy, a founding member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. [...] Climate change is the Left's religion.  The messaging is as heavy-handed as catechism in a religious school.  It's also scary.  Children are being told that global warming is killing their favorite animals.  At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, first graders are taught that transportation, heating, and raising livestock are "making Earth feel unwell."

Climate ideology in America's classrooms.  America's K-12 classrooms are increasingly becoming indoctrination centers for a one-sided view of climate change, aka, global warming and the supposed existential threat to humankind.  The Biden administration, universities, left-of-center think tanks and state governments are developing and spreading climate change curriculum that also contains an explicit activist bent to turn the nation's children into climate crusaders.  While climate and weather issues are not a recent curriculum topic in America's elementary and secondary school classrooms, the teaching and content has accelerated in recent years.

Radio Free America.  [Scroll down]  In the din of leftists shrieking over the idea of a state religion, "climate change" is taught in schools in a manner that would make any parochial school leader proud.  Kids today believe that "climate change" is a life-and-death issue — a curriculum intentionally structured to keep them frightened, and unable to comprehend a fair and balanced view of such a highly charged subject.  Today, schools teach hysteria and obedience.

Stop scaring our kids to death.  As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how to read or do math.  In some cases, kids graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas.  But the schools are wildly succeeding with their climate change indoctrination program.  When I speak to kids on high school and college campuses and ask what the greatest threat is to their generation, the answer isn't China's aggression.  It isn't a drug abuse problem that is becoming the leading killer of our children.  It isn't the failed schools or the corrupt government or the more routine violations of freedom of speech.  It isn't the $32 trillion national debt soon headed to $50 trillion.  No, they almost all raise their hands and moan that they are most worried about global warming or "climate change."  We are raising a generation with millions of Greta Thunbergs.

National Teachers Group Censors Climate Science That Doesn't Conform To Disaster Agenda.  A growing debate on how climate science is taught in classrooms was highlighted last week at the National Science Teaching Association's annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.  The CO2 Coalition paid for a booth at the event.  Despite approving the booth, the NSTA told the group it would have to remove its literature from display at the convention or it would be kicked out.  The material was critical of the association's position that climate science should be taught as an absolute consensus and never presented as having any uncertainty.  Greg Wrightstone, president of the CO2 Coalition, refused to remove the offending material and was escorted out of the building.  "We accused them of censoring science, and then they confirmed that," Wrightstone told Cowboy State Daily.

California Will Pay Students $22 an Hour for Climate Activism.  Did you know that California students could get paid for being woke climate crazies?  The recently formed #CaliforniansForAll College Corps will pay $22 an hour, almost $7 above California's minimum wage ($15.50), for 450 hours of community service work.  This "community service," which was previously considered volunteer, includes climate activism. [...] The corps is under the jurisdiction of California Volunteers, a self-described State Commission affiliated with and appointed by the Governor's Office, which would seem to indicate that the $10,000 each student will receive for activism is taxpayer money.

Over 70 Percent of Children Aged 7-12 [are] Now Afraid of Climate Change — Survey.  More than 70 percent of children aged 7-12 are now afraid of climate change according to the results of a survey.  More than seven in ten children aged 7-12 are now worried about climate change, research conducted by a UK-based start-up has reportedly found.  It comes amid reports from various experts that children and teenagers of various demographics are experiencing high rates of mental health difficulties, with one school councillor earlier this year saying that anxiety rates have hit an all-time high post-lockdown.  According to a report by Euronews, the survey — which polled 1,000 children born between 2010 and 2015 on their views regarding the environment — found that a total of 71 percent of respondents were now worried about environmental changes, including the changing climate.

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What other "environmental changes" are going on, other than the constantly (but imperceptibly) changing climate?  Shouldn't the public schools teach kids not to be afraid of trivial things that are beyond their control?  Are they teaching kids to worship the Earth and fear it at the same time?

Doubt-Free, America's Schools Warm to Climate Activism.  Public school districts are adopting curricula on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism.  As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia have adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as a peril beyond dispute, according to K12 Climate Action, a group that is part of the progressive Aspen Institute.  The school districts often rely on information provided by advocacy groups including the Sierra Club and the U.S. Green Building Council.  A Sierra Club teaching "toolkit" signals a wide purpose across subject areas:  "The 'why' and the 'how' of moving our entire society to 100% clean energy — and for fighting climate change more broadly — can be woven into many subject areas, including: biology, chemistry, physics, and even social studies."

Schools to Make Kids Eat Bugs in Climate Change Brainwashing 'Experiment'.  Schools are now conducting "science experiments" where kids eat bugs with the intention they will then pressure their parents to adopt a similar diet.  Crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, and mealworms are all on the menu.  [Video clip]

Lawmakers approve $2 million in funding to expand climate education in Maine schools.  The Climate Education Bill will establish a three-year pilot program to provide professional development funding for teachers to study climate education and bring it back to their classrooms.  Kosis Ifeji of the Nature Based Education Consortium said the bill will prioritize funding for schools that lack climate science education.  "It's important that all students have access to climate education, but specifically for people in low income communities," Ifeji said.  "We have to make sure it's equitable for them and that they're not left behind."  Ifeji, a Bangor High School senior, said she did not have climate education and has spoken with students across the state who want to learn climate science at their schools.  The Nature Based Education Consortium is a network of organizations focused on building access to outdoor learning opportunities for all Maine youth.

Climate alarmism posing as science education for children.  The new and so-called Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are now law for about a third of American children.  They say what will be taught in each grade from first grade through high school.  At least 20 states have adopted them. [...] Traditional standards still govern in the other States.  These generally mandate that climate science will be taught in high school Earth Science courses.  Earth Science is an optional course, not a requirement, and even then climate is a minor topic.  In stark contrast the NGSS are alarmist to the core.  They mandate that climate be taught in middle school science, which everyone takes.  The topic is emphasized, with alarmism a central feature.  This means lots of climate modeling, even though these students have had relatively little prior science.  They cannot possibly evaluate the models they are forced to use.  Implementing NGSS requires developing lesson plans that say what will be taught in each one hour class, often including how it will be taught.  Writing these lesson plans for every topic, in every grade, is a huge ongoing effort.

I Survived Communism.  Now, it's Back, Veiled as 'Environmentalism'.  "It was scientifically proven that communism is the only social-economic system providing the masses with justice and equality — 100 percent of scientists agree on this.  The topic is not up for debate!"  So proclaimed my professor during one of his lectures on the subject of "scientific communism" while the former country of Czechoslovakia was still under communist control.  I was reminded of his blustery pronouncement the first time I encountered the spurious claim that "a consensus of 97 percent of scientists agree global warming is man-made."  Most people don't question scientific statements because they think they are facts.  They do not understand that scientific statements must always be challenged, because science is not about "consensus;" ideology is.

American K-12 science education gone bad.  The entrenchment of the great green message really got going in the 60's and 70's, to the point where it is now just business as usual in teacher education and the textbooks.  No wonder millions are marching.  But now it is getting systematically much worse.  The so-called Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) govern over a third of America's K-12 public school students, with more on the way.  State science standards say what will be taught in each grade.  The conventional state standards have been relatively neutral when it comes to green propaganda, while the NGSS are full of it.  They also don't care much for scientific knowledge.

'I know I'm making a difference here.' University of St. Thomas builds a residence hall where sustainability is key.  Tommie East Hall, at the University of St. Thomas, is probably unlike any other student housing you've ever seen.  It's a 'smart building,' with COVID-precautions and a green zone, all rolled into one.  "Their number one goal was the embracement of sustainability," says Eric Engh, Senior Vice President of Ryan Companies.  "This will be a great example to see how good can you be.  So it'll be fun to watch."  The University has a lofty goal:  to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.

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Carbon dioxide is not carbon, nor is it a pollutant, nor is it the most influential greenhouse gas.  "Carbon neutrality" is probably unattainable, and certainly unsustainable.

Government Schools as Purveyors of Mediocracy.  The tenets of the New World Order include Socialism, Technocracy, and End of Western-Christian Civilization.  It was George H. W. Bush who signed this nation on to the United Nation's Agenda 21 (called the Earth Summit) in 1992, which called for a profound reorientation of all human society.  This was unlike anything the world has ever experienced.  Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 stated that "education is critical for promoting sustainable development..."  As to the nature of sustainable development, it involved attacks on church, family, private property, truth, marriage, free markets and liberty.  Agenda 21 was to be implemented by every person on earth through education.  UN Agenda 2030 was signed by Obama and proclaimed:  "Children are critical agents of change and will find in the new goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities and activism into the creation of a better world."  Both UN Agendas put education at the heart of the plot and further acknowledged that indoctrinating future generations was critical to advance the UN's vision for humanity.

The SAT Is Feeding Students Solar Industry Propaganda.  The famed SAT, or Scholastic Assessment Test, is a college readiness exam taken by more than 1.6 million students per year.  In May of 2018, the College Board, which owns and operates the SAT, required test takers to read an article that claims:
  •   the cost of solar energy installations "fell by more than 50 percent between 2010 and 2013."
  •   "solar power is now competitive with other energy sources in many markets."
  •   solar energy is a "ray of sunshine for the U.S. economy."
This article appeared in the reading portion of the exam, which supposedly uses "authentic texts selected from high-quality" sources.  Yet, all of the assertions above are rooted in solar industry propaganda that is at odds with the facts.  Moreover, this disinformation misleads students in ways that can cause serious harm.

The Academic Blacklist Climate Alarmists Don't Want You To Know About.  The global warming faithful are always quick with the talking points about a "scientific consensus" that doesn't exist, and the tale that 97% of scientists say man is causing the planet to overheat.  But we'll never hear them discuss publicly how researchers who don't agree with the narrative have been blacklisted.  What are they afraid of?  Of course the climate alarmists will never admit such a list even exists.  But Roger Pielke Jr., who teaches science, environment, and technology policy at the University of Colorado, says it does.  "A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled 'climate misinformers,'" Pielke recently wrote in Forbes.  "The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist."

Students Demanded Divestment From Fossil Fuels, A Professor Offered To Turn Off The Gas Heating.  Professor Andrew Parker of St John's College at Oxford University is my new favorite person.  The Times of London reports that a group of students wrote to Professor Parker to discuss demands being made by student protesters about fossil fuel divestment.  His response wasn't what they were expecting: [...] Professor Parker's response focuses the mind on the fact that this isn't a game.  There are significant costs to real people associated with eliminating fossil fuels.  Natural gas, for instance, isn't something we can simply cease using overnight or even in ten years.  If we're not careful about how we proceed, a lot of people could get hurt.

Critics blast California bill to mandate climate change lessons, call it brainwashing and indoctrination.  Teaching California students about climate change may soon become mandatory.  Public school teachers in California would be required to teach students as young as six-years-old about climate change under a recently proposed bill.  The bill, AB 1922, seeks to require the science area of study to include an emphasis on "the causes and effects of climate change."  But several critics of the bill contend the effort is really an attempt to brainwash and indoctrinate students, and that the curriculum would only teach students a biased view on climate change.

New Zealand schools to teach students about climate crisis, activism and 'eco anxiety'.  Every school in New Zealand will this year have access to materials about the climate crisis written by the country's leading science agencies — including tools for students to plan their own activism, and to process their feelings of "eco-anxiety" over global heating.  The curriculum will put New Zealand at the forefront of climate change education worldwide; governments in neighbouring Australia and the United Kingdom have both faced criticism for lack of cohesive teaching on the climate crisis.  The New Zealand scheme, which will be offered to all schools that teach 11 to 15 year-old students, will not be compulsory, the government said.

"I Don't Want To Die" — Schools Are Traumatizing Kids With Greta's Climate Apocalypse.  "Mommy, they said that we're going to die in eight years."  That's what Joylaea Blazevik, a distraught eight-year old, told her mother, Lejla Blazevik, following a presentation on global warming at her school, in Toronto, Canada.  "They were terrified with the information," Mrs. Blazevik told the National Post, a major Canadian newspaper.  Along with other seven- and eight-year-olds from second and third grade classes at her school, Joylaea had watched a video of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen climate crusader, delivering her now-famous "How dare you!" tirade at the United Nations. [...] Following Thunberg's blistering diatribe, a large "carbon clock" appeared on the screen, counting down from eight years, the amount of time the global warming alarmists say we have until carbon-dioxide levels cause the earth's atmosphere to warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius.  "I don't wanna die," one of Joylaea's classmates shouted out, which caused other children to join in, voicing the same horrible dread.

Climate derangement syndrome:  Academic suggests UN use military to enforce climate agenda.  What's the carbon footprint of a military invasion?  And where's the army that the U.N. would use to invade a country that emits the CO2 that makes the world greener and greener?  This guy makes me even happier that I ditched academia after getting my Ph.D. and teaching at Harvard.

Snowflakes: An Educational Problem.  Goldsmiths College, London, has become a no-burger institution in its attempt to save the planet.  In 2019 it banned the sale of all beef products on campus in response to calls for tackling the climate emergency, stating we should be more environmentally friendly.  It argues that the environmental impact of beef is greater than that of any other meats.  It is also trying, as are other universities, to eliminate single-use plastics, and adding an extra levy on the sale of bottled water.

Children's literature has become horribly right-on.  [Scroll down]  But now environmentalism is where it's at.  For the young XR reader — or rather, their gatekeepers as they're known in the trade, viz. parents or school librarians — the front of house displays in Waterstones bring together titles like Little Book for Big Changes:  Activities and tips to make the world a better place; Be Green and Kids Fight Plastic.  There's the hagiography there too — Earth Heroes: 20 Inspiring Stories of People Saving Our World.  Fronting the genre inevitably is young Greta Thunberg:  as in, We Are All Greta; and Greta's Story — The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet, with a cover illustration that makes her look a bit like Little My from the Moomintrolls.  There's more to come; the International Publishers Association is joining forces with the UN to publish more books to promote its Sustainable Development Goals.  Can you wait?

Canadian Professor Lost Her Job for Telling the Truth About 'Endangered' Polar Bears.  Dr Susan Crockford is one of the world's leading experts on polar bears and had held her post as Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada for 15 years.  But by speaking the truth about polar bears she fell foul of environmental activists who have long treated Ursus maritimus as one of the poster children for their "the Earth is doomed and it's all our fault" narrative.  As a result, without explanation, Crockford was ousted from her position at the university.

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change.  Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford — and she may have paid for it with her job.  After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication.  Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to "outside pressure," the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.

Der Kampus Kommissars.  College campuses are supposed to be a place where there is a free flow and exchange of thoughts, perspectives, and ideals.  It is a place where critical thinking should be developed by way of strenuous debate and meticulous analysis of facts, truth.  Speaking of which, some 500 scientists signed onto a letter debunking the so-called climate change models.  Yet, we have kids skipping schools, taking to the streets, and admitting to depression over something that is a political, ideological agenda.  That is what happens when our schools become centers of indoctrination.

The danger of doomsday climate fears.  Apocalyptic fears may be a feature rather than a bug of human psychology, but Americans under 25 have grown up under a singular cloud of doom.  Their teachers, the media, and friends have beat their skulls like a drum with the message that climate change, as Joe Biden recently echoed, represents an "existential threat."

The Far Left Is Making Teens Miserable Over The Imminent Destruction Of The World.  Everyone needs to wake up.  And realize what the smartest among us — that would be, the teenagers — know. [...] At a climate forum this week in D.C., teen Alyssa Wiseman made things clear:  "We no longer have the luxury of time." [...] I genuinely feel sorry for teens today.  Many must be abjectly despondent, given all they're being taught. [...] Law enforcement is the Gestapo.  The President is Hitler.  Our fellow Americans are the Nazis.  And there's a clock ticking on all of it.

Climate Strike Kids Would All Fail This Elementary, Global Warming Test.  Across the Western world tens of thousands of brainwashed kids are bunking off school in what has misleadingly been described as a 'Climate Strike.'  No.  A strike involves the withholding of productive labour.  These kids are simply playing truant using the best 'dog ate my homework' excuse evah:  'If I don't do this, the planet will die!!'

NYC says 1.1M students can attend climate strike protest without punishment.  School districts across the country are debating whether to follow New York City's lead after it allowed its students to participate in Friday's global youth climate strikes without punishment.  New York City's Department of Education made the announcement last Thursday [9/12/2019], saying that 1.1 million public school students could skip class to participate in the strike if they had parental consent.  Friday's youth climate strikes will come three days before the United Nations Climate Action in New York City, and the General Assembly meeting that follows it.  Other climate strike protests are expected around the world with millions in attendance, The New York Times reported.

NYC is allowing students to skip class to attend a "global climate strike".  Climate change is one of the major altars that the Left likes to worship at and they want to get children involved in that worship as well. [...] Would the Bill de Blasio and NYC school districts agree to let their students strike in support of gun rights?  I have a very strong reason to believe that they probably wouldn't.  But this allowable strike most likely won't be limited to school districts in New York.  Districts in Los Angeles and Massachusetts are working similar plans.  If I had a child in any school district that willing allows students to skip out of class to attend a climate strike, I would be absolutely livid.  The education has been infected with socialist ideas for a long time but there is still some value in getting an education.  Kids should be in school and not advocating for leftist talking points.

Union Theological Seminary Holds 'Confession to Plants' in Chapel Ceremony.  New York's non-denominational Union Theological Seminary (UTS) held a ceremony Tuesday [9/17/2019] where members of the community placed plants in the center of the chapel and confessed their sins to them.  "Today in chapel, we confessed to plants," UTS tweeted, together with a picture of the ritual.  "Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor."

The Climate Hoax in One Photo.  From some conference at Penn State University.  It seems that "male-dominated approaches" to addressing  global warming ,  climate change ,  climate chaos , climate disruption have been found lacking.  Wait a second.  Who cares what gender is involved?  Why the gender hatred?  What about objectively measured approaches?

A 'Conservative Case' for Carbon Taxes That Isn't.  K-12 school textbooks now are filled with dire predictions about anthropogenic global warming and college campuses administer nonstop brainwashing on the subject while dedicating enormous amounts of publicly funded "research" to give an academic mooring to climate hysteria.  Young people are suffering from any number of climate-fueled panic disorders as mental health professionals figure out how they, too, can cash in on the climate racket.  President Obama called climate change a bigger global threat than Islamic terrorism; his political progeny now are foot-stomping their way around Capitol Hill wielding copies of the Green New Deal while his wannabe successors embarrass themselves during cable news forums and campaign events by proposing outlandish solutions to anthropogenic global warming.

Castro Wants 'Structural Change' to Keep Conservative Ideas Out of Schools.  During the CNN climate town hall on Wednesday [9/4/2019], 2020 presidential candidate and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro called for "structural change" to make sure that schools don't get hijacked into teaching anything besides the liberal agenda, especially on climate issues.  When asked, "Should climate change be taught in schools?" Castro replied, "Yes, I believe that it should."  The 2020 Democrat went much further, however.  "This doesn't just apply to curriculum about the environment," he said.  "We need to do things like end this system of people that get elected ... and then they sit on a statewide board that determines what is in curriculum."

A Sophomoric Look at Climate Change.  [Scroll down]  Everyone was giddy — except for that one guy who was taking the course merely for grade inflation potential.  He asked questions like "What if the effect of the sun caused climate change?" and "Who caused the climate change that caused the last ice age?" and "What if the Earth has a natural ability to balance these variables?"  Suddenly, the entire class was discombobulated.  The instructor, too, was flustered, and he quickly dismissed the class, but he kept the skeptic behind.  The next morning started one student short, and no one cared.  This led to a secret corollary to mission success.  No one will be allowed to dissent from the consensus.

Report: Teachers Inserting Climate Change into Curriculum Without Training, Textbooks.  Despite the unsettled science and evidence to the contrary, teachers without training or textbooks are giving lessons to U.S. public school students on the threat of manmade climate change. [...] The article focuses on a school in Oklahoma, where many students have parents who have good jobs in the flourishing oil and gas industry in the state, that promotes environmentalists' belief that fossil fuels are the main culprit causing climate change.

High School Climate Indoctrination Using AP Environment Textbooks.  Jordan Peterson, a worldwide pop-culture self-help phenomenon and University of Toronto psychology professor, has repeatedly warned that "Liberal colleges aren't about education; they're about political activism."  It is widely believed and experienced by conservatives that our universities are doing more to indoctrinate our students than truly educate.  What many people do not realize is the same thing is being done in our public K-12 schools.  I am one of nine elected directors on the school board in the Hollidaysburg Area School District in central Pennsylvania.  Among other responsibilities, school boards are charged with approving their districts' textbooks and curricula.  In most cases, the books are rubber-stamped "yes" by the boards.  What is the point of voting to approve books if you don't read them?

Environmental indoctrination in our schools.  By hijacking the traditional school curriculum and transforming it into an instrument of indoctrination, progressive educators can mold minds to their hearts' content.  The authors note that many students are subjected to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), written in 2011 under the direction of Achieve, Inc., the same organization that wrote the controversial Common Core national standards for English, arts, and mathematics.  After evaluating the NGSS, the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that actually supported Common Core, determined that the NGSS was "inferior" to standards in 20 other states.  In physical science, it observed that "it would be impossible to derive a high school physics or chemistry course from the content included in the NGSS."  Instead of introducing students to the world of scientific inquiry, NGSS seeks to inculcate progressive social values.  It does so by striving to "engage" students during classroom instruction by brainwashing them and pressuring them to become active participants in rescuing the planet in accordance with environmentalist dogma.

Children Have to Listen to Fake News, Too, and It's Not Good for Them.  [Scroll down]  Kids are being propagandized about the ticking climate clock in school, on TV, and everywhere on social media.  It just doesn't help when the parents are scared, too.  A 40-year-old Salt Lake City mother said the release of the U.N.'s latest climate report caused her three teenage daughters a severe emotional crisis.  "There was a lot of crying.  They told me, 'We know what's coming, and it's going to be really rough.'"  Because mom believes it, too, there's not much help she can offer.  "I want to have hope," she said, "but the reports are showing that this isn't going to stop, so all we can do is cope."  I don't believe that these children are really studying climate reports; it's the media's hysterical coverage that's upsetting them.

Government Experiment Brainwashes Children to Manipulate Conservative Parents.  Children don't choose to advocate for political agendas.  That choice is made for them.  Sometimes those decisions are made by their parents.  Other times it's made by a totalitarian machine lubricated by hundreds of thousands in grant money stolen from their parents in order to brainwash their children.

How teaching kids about climate change can influence their conservative parents.  Researchers found that teaching children about climate change in school significantly increased their parents' concern over the issue.  Notably, the effect was strongest among conservative parents — who tended to be the least worried about global warming, and whose views have historically proven difficult to influence.

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When (and if) the parents of public school children find out what their kids have been learning at school, they either accept and approve it, or they have to un-teach their kids and set them straight.  When the kids have been taught all day every day that global warming is a crisis, and we have to do something right away or we'll all die, responsible parents have to de-program their kids and assure them that global warming is a farce and a scam.  This undermines the public school teachers' credibility, but if the teachers are spreading misinformation, it is entirely necessary.  If this indoctrination persists, the parents must either confront and change the schools or take their kids elsewhere for a proper education, as opposed to indoctrination.

Poorly-educated snowflakes worry themselves sick over the weather:
Young Minnesotans with 'climate grief' are feeling anxiety — and taking action.  In 2017, the American Psychological Association recognized the complex mental health burden in people who have experienced losses from natural disasters associated with climate change.  It also found evidence that the warming planet is churning up an emotional stew of anxiety, depression and pervasive dread.  Young people, in particular, seem susceptible to the psychological toll from the steady stream of bleak scientific studies and reports of melting glaciers, rising seas and extreme weather events.

1.5 Trillion Reasons Why the Kids' Climate Strike Is Dishonest, Stupid, Pointless.  Around the world, thousands of children have skipped school for the day on the feeble pretext that they are somehow doing something to help save the planet.  This is, of course, nonsense.  At best they're just regurgitating the lies, fake news and junk science which have been brainwashed into their pretty little heads by their teachers.  At worst they're just being exploited as useful idiots by the hard left.

Global Climate Strike:  Students Push Green Communism.  Tomorrow [3/15/2019], thousands of students across the United States will stage a massive walkout from their schools in the name of human-caused global warming.  The name of the protest is the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.  The roots of this young green and red communism start with socialist radicals in Europe.  Most rational adults know that the climate change farce is just a load of [nonsense].  It's called 'weather'.  Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says it is a load of [nonsense].  There are many credible scientists who disparage it as well.  The environmental Marxists have gotten their hands on our children and we have allowed it to happen.  They may claim to be 'green' in nature, but scratch the surface just a little and you will see they are 'red' to the core.  As in communism.

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Leading Climate Change School Walkouts in U.S..  Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) daughter is leading a national movement of students seeking to ditch class on Friday [3/15/2019] to participate in a worldwide climate change protest.  Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, 16, of Minneapolis, is spearheading the nationwide youth climate strike protests across the U.S. in nearly 50 states and Washington, DC., along with co-organizers Alexandria Villasenor, 13, of New York, and Haven Coleman, 12, of Denver.

Al Gore-led group encourages students to ditch school for climate change.  More than a dozen progressive advocacy groups, including one headed by former Vice President Al Gore, are encouraging students to skip school Friday [3/15/2019] in the name of climate change.  The Climate Reality Project, founded and chaired by Mr. Gore, has thrown its support behind the Youth Climate Strike, a one-day walk-out aimed at drumming up support for "radical legislative action," including the Green New Deal.  "They've had enough.  And no wonder — it's their future on the line.  So if adults aren't going to act on their own, young people will make them," said Climate Reality Project in a Tuesday statement.

Truly Bad People.  Children across Europe have been going on "climate strikes" in an attempt force capitulation to the "green agenda" by adults.  Truth be told, it doesn't get much easier than convincing school kids to skip class, whatever the cause, especially when teachers and school administrators grant permission.  These "strikes" are coming to the United States.  Organizers have thrust children to the front, with four of them writing in an op-ed announcing their plans, "We strike because our world leaders haven't acknowledged, prioritized, or properly addressed the climate crisis. [...]"

GOP senators challenge funding for global warming education program.  Four Republican senators called Wednesday [6/20/2018] for an investigation of National Science Foundation grants, saying the federal agency had ventured beyond science and into political advocacy, particularly with its support of a program to encourage TV weathercasters to report on global warming.  The four senators called for the foundation's inspector general to investigate the $4 million program to increase climate reporting by meteorologists, saying it "is not science — it is propagandizing."

Climate Change Nut Jobs Want Your Pets Dead To Save The Planet.  Some global warming fanatic at UCLA has come up with a report claiming our pets are part of the problem when it comes to climate change and we are going to have to make 'tough choices'.  It's no choice at all... our pets stay.  At issue is the food you feed your fur-kids and then what comes out of them when they go potty.  This is idiotic.  If these loons got their way, all animals would be killed off so Mother Earth could be at ease.  Animals are a huge part of what makes Earth inhabitable.  But you can't talk sense to a moron.

Why kids can't think.  Even though manipulated computer models and predictions of global warming/climate change have been demonstrated to be completely inaccurate, children are taught almost from the womb that the science is settled and anyone who questions the agenda is stupid and shouldn't be listened to.  No wonder they don't ask any questions.

Democrats Ask Teachers To Destroy Books Written By 'Climate Deniers'.  [Scroll down]  The best way to get adults to act like environmentalists is by brainwashing their children, according to research published by Oregon State University.  Talking to kids about global warming caused their parents to use less energy and act more like environmentalists.  The research was run on was run on 30 Girl Scout troops in northern California and had a "lasting impact on family energy consumption" for at least eight months after the end of the program.  Based on the study's success, the researchers are now disseminating the curriculum to Girl Scout leaders around the country and attempting to adapt it to other groups of kids, including schools and youth-focused organizations such as 4-H with the help of other universities, such as Stanford.  The research was financially supported by government grants.

New Climate Change Science Degree at LSC to Tackle Global Problem.  A new Bachelor of Science degree in Climate Change Science at Lyndon State College, to be launched this fall, will give students skills to confront the pervasive problems caused by global climate issues.  As the impacts of global warming grow and intensify, LSC is addressing a crucial need for trained professionals to find solutions to climate change challenges.

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If you believe "the impacts of global warming" are growing and intensifying, please tell me what those impacts are, since there hasn't been any global warming for the last 20 years.  And how do you suppose you'll make a living solving a problem that does not exist?  Sounds like a government job.

California Schools Cut Meat, Cheese From Lunches To Fight Global Warming.  Oakland schools partnered with the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) to fight global warming by making student lunches climate-friendly.  FOE gave kids a lunch menu designed to eliminate foods it says are "unsustainable for our planet."  The new menu features far less meat and more plant-based food.  Any meat or cheese the school did use came from "pastured, organic dairy cows."  The student's lunch menu went from beef hot dogs and pepperoni pizza to vegan stir fry tofu and vegan tostadas.

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Remember this, kids:  If you eat meat, you'll cause global warming and ruin the earth.

Youth in Washington state sue government over climate change.  Eight children asked a state judge on Tuesday [11/22/2016] to find Washington in contempt for failing to adequately protect them and future generations from the harmful effects of climate change.  The petitioners asked the judge to require the state Department of Ecology to come up with science-based numeric emissions reductions.  The state argued that it has complied with the court's prior orders and there's no basis for finding the Department of Ecology in contempt.

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Examination of the facts in this case will show that the students have suffered no actual damages.  They perceive (incorrectly) there is a possibility and perhaps even a likelihood of future trouble as a result of "climate change."  But there has been no abnormal climate change, and there are no tanglible recently-erupted problems that can be uniquely blamed on the climate.  When people complain about frivolous lawsuits, this is what they're talking about.

Top University Stole Millions From Taxpayers By Faking Global Warming Research.  A global warming research center at the London School of Economics got millions of dollars from UK taxpayers by taking credit for research it didn't perform, an investigation by The Daily Mail revealed.  The UK government gave $11 million dollars to the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in exchange for research that the organization reportedly never actually did.  Many papers CCCEP claimed to have published to get government money weren't about global warming, were written before the organization was even founded, or were written by researchers unaffiliated with CCCEP.

EPA Spends $10.8 Million for Teacher Training on 'Environmental Education'.  The Environmental Protection Agency is spending over $10 million in taxpayer dollars for a five-year program to train teachers to "deliver high-quality environmental education in formal and non-formal education settings."  "Environmental educators help learners of all ages understand and value the ecosystems around them," said U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.  "The teacher training program gives educators access to the best classroom and out-of-classroom materials and professional development opportunities, focused on using the environment as a platform for learning science, technology, engineering and math skills to improve decision-making."

Bummer: 'Climate Change' To "Destroy Beautiful Sunsets.  From the press release about this taxpayer funded program[:] "Some students take photos of beautiful things such as sunsets or waterways and then write about how it could be lost or destroyed because of climate change."

No More Sunsets.  Adults aren't falling for climate change hysteria, so warmy alarmists are now appealing to their base: pre-teen children.

Climate change gloom lessons for kids.  Doomsday climate change lessons are being taught to children as young as eight who are concluding that human activity threatens to destroy beautiful sunsets and waterways.

University official wants answers on whether climate professors are 'indoctrinating' students.  The University of Colorado professors who shut down climate change debate in class have landed on the radar of a top school official, who says he wants to make sure students are being "educated, not indoctrinated."  John Carson, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, said he plans to make inquires Thursday [9/1/2016] about an email from three University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professors who advised students to drop the class if they dispute climate change.  "I have a lot of questions after reading this reported email sent to students," Mr. Carson told The Washington Times.  "We should be encouraging debate and dialogue at the university, not discouraging or forbidding it.  Students deserve more respect than this.  They come to the university to be educated, not indoctrinated."

Professors advise students to drop class if they question climate change.  The professors, who are team-teaching the fall online course Medical Humanities in the Digital Age, issued the memo after some students expressed concerns about the first online lecture on climate change, according to the College Fix, which obtained a copy of the email.  "The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring," the professors said.  "We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the 'other side' of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course."

Professors tell students:  Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change.  Three professors co-teaching an online course called "Medical Humanities in the Digital Age" at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course.  "The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring.  We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the 'other side' of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course," states the email, a copy of which was provided to The College Fix by a student in the course.

Inhofe: Kids are "brainwashed" into Worrying About Climate Change.  I have seen plenty of examples of children repeating harmful social conditioning — nonsense about not defending yourself against bullies, and of course, lessons about the alleged dangers of "climate change" — saying things like "if you drop any plastic on the ground the animals will die, it has to all go in the recycling".  For parents, trying to undo this damage is a nightmare.  If they push too far, and their child starts disagreeing in public with what is being taught, the child just receives more bullying to conform.  But doing nothing is also not an option.  The people who traumatise our children also publicly wonder why so many turn to drugs.  It should be obvious.  I mean, if authority figures convince a child the world is about to end, that it is all their parent's fault, that there is nothing they can do to avoid a horrible death, what do you say to those same children, to convince them to do their homework?  Not every teacher is participating in this harmful brainwashing — according to a recent study, many teachers are courageously risking their careers and livelihoods to try to lead the children in their charge towards a more balanced view of the world.

Science Teachers Giving Unbalanced Education on Climate Change.  A nationwide survey of 1,500 U.S. middle and high school science teachers, conducted by the National Center for Science Education and published in the February 12 issue of Science, found half of the teachers who discuss climate change in the classroom ignore evidence of the role of natural factors. [...] Jane Shaw, former president and current board member of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, says the study's authors are the ones getting the science wrong.  "The survey's authors assume humans 'are causing' climate change, as though that were the only cause," said Shaw.  "That assumption is not scientific at all.  Humans may be contributing, but [they are] exclusively causing it?  That's ridiculous."  Shaw says teachers should teach the truth, not worry about sending mixed messages.  "Equally bad is the claim teachers should shave the truth in order to avoid sending 'mixed messages' to middle school and high school students," said Shaw.  "Telling the truth is bad because it sends 'mixed messages?'  That's a horrifying claim."

Promoting Climate Propaganda in Public Education:  Marx and Engels Would Be Proud.  The founders of "public" schooling in America, working even before the 1848 release of the Communist Manifesto, knew precisely why they wanted to replace the private, locally controlled, mostly church-run schools that dominated education in America with government-run schools:  to "socialize" American youth, that is, to make them fit to function as unquestioning cogs in the socialist machine.  In keeping with this tradition, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has introduced a bill to "authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Climate Change Education Program."  The bill asserts as grounds for creating this program that Congress "finds" six things, each of which is open to significant debate as to its fact or its significance:  [For example,] "the evidence for human-induced climate change is overwhelming and undeniable" — Implicit in these seemingly innocuous words, but made clear by some that follow, is the assumption that the human-induced climate change for which the evidence is "overwhelming and undeniable" is reasonable grounds for "fear" and a "sense of helplessness" and that its "impact on the environment" must be "reduce[d]."

Academics: Nature Needs Seats At UN And 'Crimes Against Biodiversity'.  The best way to fix global warming is to punish "crimes against biodiverstiy," and give 25 seats at the United Nations (U.N.) to nature, according to an academic article published Thursday [6/30/2016].  The article, written by Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel, professors who study international relations and gender studies respectively, concludes massively empowering the U.N. is the best way to slow global warming.

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The best way to "slow global warming" is to do nothing, inasmuch as global warming has already slowed or stopped, all by itself.

Green Indoctrination at School.  [Scroll down]  Maryland was ahead of the curve when, in 2011, it was the first state under Common Core to require something called 'environmental literacy' in order to graduate from high school.  The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) approved by the Kentucky Board of Education (BOE), and likely to be adopted in many other states, revolutionizes the classroom landscape for millions of students.  Like Common Core it recommends that educators identify global warming as a core concept and stress the relationship between global warming and human activity.  That is ironic because the consensus is that there has been no global warming for (aside from the current short-term rise driven by a super-El Niño this year).  Nevertheless, many textbook publishers are incorporating NGSS standards that insist unabated global warming is accelerating and is unquestionably caused by human CO2 emissions.

Kerry Tells Students Why SecState in Age of Terrorism is Focused on the Oceans.  Secretary of State John Kerry told high school students on Wednesday [6/1/2016] that "your parents' money is going to pay for the harder impact of storms that we're suffering — much more damage than ever before as a result of the intensity of the storms that we suffer because of climate change."  Speaking to students at Montgomery Blair H.S. in Silver Spring, Maryland on Wednesday [6/1/2016], Kerry also answered his own question — "Why is the Secretary of State of the United States of America, in an age where we have terrorism and we have several wars going on at the same time — why are we focused on the oceans, and what does that have to do with my life every single day?" — by telling the youngsters that "the oceans are essential to your life."

U.N. Chief's Message to Graduates:  Don't Vote for Climate-Change Deniers.  After receiving an honorary doctorate of laws from the university, Ban told the crowd that April marked the seventh straight month of the "hottest global temperatures on record," and he said students must help bring the Paris climate agreement to life:  "Don't vote for politicians who deny the problem," he said.  "Don't buy products that aren't sustainable.  And for heaven's sake, turn off the lights!"

UMass Divests From Fossil Fuel Industry That 'Perpetuates Injustice'.  The winters are cold in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the state university relies on a modern central heating plant that burns natural gas most of the time, switching to fuel oil when gas is not available.  But no matter.  Now that spring is here, the heat is coming from students who are horrified at the university's financial investments in fossil fuels.  Following protests (and student arrests) last month, the UMass System announced on Wednesday [5/25/2016] that it is the first major public university in the United States to fully divest from the fossil fuel industry.

Portland public schools ban textbooks that cast doubt on climate change.  The Portland Public Schools board voted last week to ban any materials that cast doubt on climate change, the Portland Tribune reported.  According to the resolution passed May 17, the school district must remove any textbooks and other materials that suggest climate change is not occurring or that says human beings are not responsible for it.

Dissent is Forbidden:  Portland Crackpots Ban 'Climate Change-Denying' Material in Schools.  The science is settled, so we must eliminate anything that questions the junk science! [...] We're wondering if in this school's health class they're teaching about the undeniable science that boys are boys and girls are girls?

Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials.  In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools.  "It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis," said Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux in board testimony.  "Climate education is not a niche or a specialization, it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world."  The resolution passed Tuesday evening [5/17/2016] calls for the school district to get rid of textbooks or other materials that cast doubt on whether climate change is occurring and that the activity of human beings is responsible.  The resolution also directs the superintendent and staff to develop an implementation plan for "curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools."

Bill Nye Is A Huckster.  Bill Nye fashions himself a voice of rational thought and scientific inquiry.  His shtick has gotten him into classrooms and on an endless loop of evangelizing TV appearances.  Yet nearly every time he speaks these days, Nye diminishes genuine science by resorting to scaremonger-y nuggets of easily dismissible ideologically-motivated nonsense.

Many Science Teachers Not Stampeded into Climate Alarmism.  It seems a national teacher survey of 1,500 middle and high school science teachers, representing all 50 states, conducted by the National Center for Science Education and published in the journal Science, found just half of teachers discussing climate change in the classroom have drunk the alarmists' Kool-Aid and are brainwashing students to believe humans are causing catastrophic climate change.  Approximately 75 percent of science teachers reported they discuss global warming in the classroom, typically for less than an hour or two over the course of an academic year.  Of those who do, just over half push the alarmists' line that 97 percent of scientists have determined human fossil fuel use is causing catastrophic climate change.  About 30 percent of science teachers who discuss climate change say humans may be partly to blame, but natural factors also play a role.  Approximately 10 percent of science teachers deny humans play any role in climate change, and about 5 percent of those who discuss climate change in the classroom don't discuss causes at all.

A Retrospective on the Obama Years.  [Scroll down]  College professors who challenge the concept of manmade global warming put their careers at risk.  Recall the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee who initiated an "investigation" of climate scientists and professors, and expressed contrarian views by sending letters of inquiry to their respective university presidents.  Likewise, politicians who question the (often subjective) science become the targets of hostile media types.  When inappropriate data manipulation by climate scientists is exposed, the story dies.  And the president of the United States is fond of ostracizing those who challenge the science or one of his regulatory remedies. [...] Suffice to say that climate politics is a perfect vehicle for the anti-growth, limited-horizon policies of the left.  After all, slower growth necessarily follows unilateral disarmament on fossil fuels.

EPA Boss Urges School Kids to "Bug" Parents on Green Agenda.  In a new propaganda talk presented in classrooms across America, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) boss Gina McCarthy (shown) urged school children to become part of the "climate solution," take a government "pledge," and even "bug" their families to jump on the Obama administration's "green" bandwagon.  If those students enjoy math and numbers, the top environmental bureaucrat said she wants them to go work for the EPA — so they can help calculate the "carbon footprint" of Americans.  "We have lots of people working here that do that type of work," McCarthy explained.  The bizarre EPA climate propaganda in the classroom meshes well with Education Secretary Arne Duncan's repeated pledges to transform American school children into "green" and "global" citizens ready for "green jobs" in the new, "sustainable" world order.  Critics of McCarthy's antics, however, were not amused, with one equating the EPA intrusion to Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin's tactics.

Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change.  Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.  But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution.  And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

Climate Compulsions.  A characteristic craving of academics, more important than even sex, is lust for money and status.  The two are interchangeable in the academic world, at least in the part of the academic world ruled by research grants.  Academics deeply feel that their importance is undervalued, a condition that makes them easily manipulated by money and attention, and deeply subservient to the authorities that dispense those commodities.  Since nowadays almost all the money comes from the government, academics are not interested in criticizing the government and most especially are not interested in criticizing the agencies that allocate the money. [...] Professors in climate change disciplines toe the party line on global warming catastrophism, not because they suffer from any pathology, but because it is a professional obligation.  Global warming theory brings billions of dollars a year to academia.  So it is something very serious.  The scientific societies, being similar to labor unions, enthusiastically support this theory that provides a generous flow of cash.

Common Core nightmare in science: Climate change indoctrination hits 13 states.  Several U.S. states are noticing a troubling thread in Common Core science lessons:  an attempt to convince students that climate change is real.  Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have now signed on to Common Core's Next Generation of Science Standards, according to Fox News.  And tucked inside the new guidelines is global warming-speak with definitive ties to the U.S. government.

Students using their feet to power their school.  Step by step, students at an Indiana high school are helping power their building just by walking.  Special tiles along the hallway floor convert the kinetic energy of the youngsters' footfalls into a sustainable energy source.

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It might be a "sustainable" energy source, as long as the kids are walking up and down the hallways.  What happens when they're all in class, as they should be?  Do the lights go out?

EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks Them to Check Toilets for Leaks.  Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle:  the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA's WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.

Colleges' Obsession With 'Sustainability' Is Unsustainable.  The sustainability movement on college campuses across the country is not merely the work of a bunch of wacky students doing the harmless things that kids grow out of.  It "distorts college curricula and cuts off free inquiry on important questions," said a new study from the National Association of Scholars.  Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism begins with the explanation, "'Sustainability' is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and the rest of the Western world."  And while it might seem like "just a new name for environmentalism," it "really marks out a new and larger ideological territory in which curtailing economic, political and intellectual liberty is the price that must be paid now to ensure the welfare of future generations."

Wyoming Now to Indoctrinate School Kids in Global Warming.  Wyoming may become the first state to force global warming on kids as part of a state enforced grade school curriculum.  Worse, it is a Republican Governor who is signing the bill.  In fact, the bill Republican Governor Matt Mead just signed a bill that re-instates the Common Core-styled state education standards that are falling out of favor everywhere else in the country.  The re-instated standards maintain that global warming is real and caused by human activity.

Texas School Books Attacked by Lobbying Group.  Environmental lobbyists are trying to censor the portrayal of climate science in textbooks being considered for adoption by the Texas Board of Education.  The TBOE is in the midst of approving new social studies textbooks for the first time in 12 years.  The books could be used in schools for more than a decade.  As Texas is a huge market for textbook publishers, when the TBOE adopts a textbook, many school districts across the nation follow. [...] For instance, one proposed textbook states, "Some scientists say it is natural for the Earth's temperature to be higher for a few years," and, "They predict we'll have some cooler years and things will even out."  The NCSE says it knows of no publishing climate scientist who holds that view.

The real sea change should occur on campus.  Recently, several liberal professors visited Gov. Rick Scott to brief him on the "closed" science of global warming.  Never mind that many scientists will tell you that science is never closed or settled.  These professors — like many in the media, academia and in Hollywood — will continue to scream the sky is falling until they force more polluters out of business and cause the loss of more American jobs.  Should you be one of those scientists who dares to question global warming, you stand the chance — like Galileo and Copernicus when they went against the settled science of the Church and were branded heretics — of paying a price that could range from ridicule and censorship to the loss of your career.

EPA chief: Teach climate change in schools.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Gina McCarthy said students should be taught the science behind climate change in schools.  "I think part of the challenge of explaining climate change is that it requires a level of science and a level of forward thinking and you've got to teach that to kids," McCarthy said in an interview with the magazine Irish American published Friday [8/8/2014].

Nation's Schools Targeted with Mythical Alarmist 'Consensus' Program.  The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a nonprofit group described as a watchdog over the education of the nation's children. [...] NCSE's supporters see it as an organization that protects science from the attack of ignorant, religious, countrified yahoos and bumpkins.  Its detractors see it as a campaign to stifle the free and open debate that is critical to a free society and that is a necessary condition for scientific progress.  Critics believe that, by seeking to put a lid on scientific controversies, NCSE actually serves as an impediment to science education — such that many school systems and individual teachers refrain from teaching about the topics extensively, or avoid the topics entirely, in order to avoid the wrath of "consensus" enforcers.  As a result, the nation's schoolchildren learn neither the facts underlying the theories and counter-theories, nor the reasoning processes by which real science separates fact from fiction.

Student Lunches Soon Could Be Influenced By Climate Change Concerns.  There's no place in the Dietary Guidelines for a politically extreme environmental agenda, or for that matter any other non-nutritional agenda.  The Guidelines are promoted as providing authoritative nutritional advice — it's deceptive and dangerous to provide Americans nutritional advice knowing that it isn't based solely on their nutritional needs and instead driven by politics.  It's even worse for the government to develop food programs, such as those to feed school children, based on dubious, politicized recommendations.  Human nutritional interests and political environmental agendas are completely unrelated.  Developing legitimate nutritional guidelines therefore becomes an impossible task.

Educators Want to Focus More on Junk Science.  Educators have called for national teaching guidelines for science in schools around the nation — and they called for the curriculum for Middle Schools to focus more on the junk sciences like Evolution and Global Warming.  They felt that the nation's schools now focus too much on hard science like Chemistry, Biology and Physics.  Educators felt that other countries such as Germany and Japan have those things covered and there really isn't any money in those types of things.  Plus they require higher math skills and IQ levels that we just don't see in America.

Feds Paid $4.9 Million to Create Hypothetical Utopian Climate Change Future.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) gave nearly $5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create scenarios based on America's actions on climate change, including a utopian future where everyone rides a bike and courts forcibly take property from the wealthy.  The government has awarded $4,911,961 for the project, which is slated to run until March 2016 and for which the school has created a website suggesting different possibilities of what Yahara, a Wisconsin watershed, will be like in 2070.  In the scenario where Americans "shift our values," people live in hippie-like communes after "youth culture" convinces the world to give up their cars and eat vegetarian.

'Why my daughter doesn't recycle': an economics professor's letter to his child's teacher.  A US economics professor has published the letter he wrote to his daughter's schoolteacher explaining why he doesn't want his girl indoctrinated in the green religion.  Steven Landsburg, a professor at Rochester, NY, included it as part of a longer essay in which he calls environmentalism a "coercive ideology" targeted specifically at children.

The Science of Economics Versus the Religion of Ecology.  I'd heard some of this from my daughter before and had gotten used to the idea that she needed a little deprogramming from time to time.  But as I listened to the rote repetition of a political agenda from children not old enough to read, I decided it was time for a word with the teacher.

23 Global Warming & Climate Change Stories All Americans Should Read Before Earth Day.  [This article includes] 23 news stories from a variety of sources that everyone should consider before the avalanche of "go green" stories that will be unveiled on Earth Day — in the media and in our kids' schools.  Whether or not one wants to promote the perfectly fine goal of fostering a better environment and leaving a cleaner planet for one's children, that should not be carried out on the basis of disinformation, hysteria, or hidden political agendas.

Science and Panic.  Given what was taught in high school, at this point in time, the gas pumps should be empty, our boilers without coal, O-zone nowhere, skin cancer everywhere, and the Midwest a desert covered in trash.  If what my parents were taught was true, the Midwest should be a glacier covered in trash.  My eyes were opened when I learned environmental science from a real environmental scientist.  During my graduate years, my department invited many climatologists to present their research.  Not one of them showed anything to demonstrate that the Earth had warmed, nor did any claim it had.

Climate Lessons.  A blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill-founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW.  A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading.

The Editor says...
I presume and surmise that CAGW, in this case, stands for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

Schoolchildren terrorized and brainwashed by green propaganda says survey.  British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with "confusion, ignorance and fear", says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.  The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John Shade, finds that "eco-activism" has been given free rein within schools for at least three decades.  Children are being encouraged to become "little political activists" with a duty to "save the planet" not least by putting pressure on their parents.

How Climate Change Conquered the American Campus.  While many parts of the U.S. economy struggle to recover from the Great Recession of 2008-09, one domestic industry is experiencing a technology-driven expansion in which American innovations have led to countless new company startups, a surge in hiring and some of the highest-paying entry-level jobs for graduating college seniors.  How are the nation's universities responding so students might prepare for a promising career in this growing and intellectually challenging field?  By largely ignoring it.  Why?  Because the industry is oil and gas.

EPA Video Contest Teaches Budding Child-Activists to Worry About 'Climate Change'.  The Environmental Protection Agency is co-sponsoring a "climate change video contest" that asks students, ages 11-14:  "Why do you care about climate change?" And:  "How are you reducing carbon pollution or preparing for the impacts of climate change?"  Students are advised to "be cool" and "be creative" in explaining "how climate change affects you, your family, friends, and community, now or in the future" — and what they are doing to "prepare for a changing climate."  The Obama administration frequently uses video contests or "challenges" to advance its liberal viewpoint on a variety of issues, and this is no exception.

Global warming will kill us all, warns Common Core-aligned homework.  Fifth grade students at Fremont Elementary School in Colorado were assigned a reading passage that describes global warming as a dangerous, man-made phenomenon that will destroy civilization in a few hundred years.  The reading assignment was found inside a workbook aligned with the controversial national Common Core curriculum guidelines, and was titled "Homework from the Future."  It tells the fictional story of a visitor to the year 2512 who discovers that the eastern United States is under water and the country's population greatly reduced, all thanks to man-made global warming.

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US citizens pay for 'solar school' foolishness.  Solar systems are being installed at hundreds of schools across the United States.  Educators use solar panels to teach students about the "miracle" of energy sourced from the sun.  But a closer look at these projects shows poor economics and a big bill for citizens.  Earlier this month, the National Resources Defense Fund (NRDC) launched its "Solar Schools" campaign, an effort to raise $54,000 to help "three to five to-be-determined schools move forward with solar rooftop projects."  The NRDC wants to "help every school in the country go solar."  The campaign uses a cute video featuring kids talking about how we're "polluting the Earth with gas and coal" and how we can save the planet with solar.

Orwellian high school preaches population control to students.  "It's up to you — no more than two."  This dystopian command was posted by staff inside an Indiana high school as a warning to students that if they grow up to have large families, they are contributing to overpopulation — a pseudoscientific hoax pushed by some liberals.  The message was posted on a banner above lockers at Northview High School in Brazil, Indiana.

Children are being taught "men cause climate change."  Not mankind in general, just men.
Indoctrination At Schools In Germany Reaches New Level.  The main message of the text is that men, with their macho lifestyles, produce far more CO2 than women and thus the planet is suffering because of it.  The text cites scientific studies (from women) and presents claims made by the studies as fact.

N.Y. professor suggests regulating air condition[ing] to cool global warming.  Since air conditioners were first put on the market in 1939, they've been part of everyday life in the American household, as well as at work, in the car or inside stores and restaurants.  Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University wrote an opinion piece in Time magazine recently, pointing out that global energy consumption is soaring.  The expectation of air conditioning convenience is spreading to countries where American culture carries influence.

Critical Thinking about Climate Change.  As a life-long atmospheric and environmental scientist and long-time college-science educator, I am constantly bombarded with material from a variety of sources, including many environmental groups.  Take, for instance, what can be labeled "sales" literature that I recently received from the Environmental Defense Fund.

Global Warming Alarmism In Twilight.  The curtain is coming down rapidly on global warming alarmism, as evidence of the AGW theory's falsity accumulates on nearly a daily basis.  Of course, the global warming machine grinds on, like a dead frog whose legs are still kicking.  My 10th grade daughter had her last day of school yesterday.  A teacher gave her a sheet of instructions on how to lead a "green," low-carbon summer.  The sheet included suggestions like "hitchhike."  Great idea for a 16-year-old girl!  Also, don't have a baby over the summer.  Um, don't worry:  she wasn't planning to.  But not for reasons of climate control.

The Moment the Environmental Movement Changed.  In the summer between third and fourth grade, I attended a day camp at a "nature center" in our Chicago suburb — a large park with a lagoon, a hiking trail, and several fire pits.  The theme of the camp was learning about the wilderness — which meant, in essence, learning how to tame it.

We don't need no eco-propaganda.  Telling children that greenhouse-gas emissions will cause all coastal areas to be flooded and will fry millions of human beings isn't education — it's political propaganda. [...] Schooling is increasingly orientated towards addressing social, economic, environmental and political issues, such as inequality, allegedly declining self-esteem, cultural integration, happiness, and so on.

Windpower propaganda: At a School Near You?  Any parent involved with their children's homework or school knows that "green" is in.  But too often more than that, "green" notions are presented as self-evident truths where there should be critical thinking and discussion.  Also too often, federal and state funds are being dispensed to create the 'greenest' possible hearts and minds for tomorrow.  Such is the case with an industry that is economically useless and environmentally destructive:  industrial wind power.

Teaching climatism in schools: Next generation science standards.  Man-made global warming must be taught in our schools, according to the latest release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).  The January draft release of the NGSS by the National Research Council is a recommendation for concepts to be used by states in kindergarten through high school.  However, the recommendations are filled with ideology and unproven assumptions about climate change.

The Promise Of A Green Future Is More Than A White Lie.  Children and their mothers are victims of green propaganda, particularly through the schools.  Sadly, few people, including mothers, have any idea what is taught in the schools.  It is where the emotional blackmail of environmentalism is inculcated into society.  The message preached is that industry and development are the cause of most environmental and social problems.

Windpower Propaganda: At A School Near You?  Any parent involved with their children's homework or school knows that "green" is in.  But too often more than that, "green" notions are presented as self-evident truths where there should be critical thinking and discussion.  Also too often, federal and state funds are being dispensed to create the 'greenest' possible hearts and minds for tomorrow.  Such is the case with an industry that is economically useless and environmentally destructive:  industrial wind power.

The Green Ninja.  What, you might ask, is the Green Ninja?  It is an animated climate-action superhero aimed squarely at school children.  In other words, mind poisoning climate alarmist propaganda meant to indoctrinate children into the green belief system.  What's worse, it is being funded by US government grant money.  Not since communism has such a concerted effort been made to brainwash the young before they have a chance to learn how to think for themselves. [...] The project has received a $390,000 grant from NASA to support professional development for teachers, and $20,000 from PG&E to pilot an energy reduction contest for Santa Clara County middle schoolers.