De-Programming Students by Thomas Sowell on National Review Online

...Yet most students who have read and heard repeatedly about the catastrophes awaiting us unless we try to stop “global warming” have never read a book, an article, or even a single word by any of the hundreds of climate scientists, in countries around the world, who have expressed opposition to that view.

These students may have been shown Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth in school, but are very unlikely to have been shown the British Channel 4 television special, The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that students are being indoctrinated with the correct conclusions on current issues, that would still be irrelevant educationally. Hearing only one side does nothing to equip students with the experience to know how to sort out opposing sides of other issues they will have to confront in the future, after they have left school and need to reach their own conclusions on the issues arising later.

Yet they are the jury that will ultimately decide the fate of this nation.

Curbing Foreign Airline Emissions in Europe - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

All airlines using European airports are going to be regulated under the European Emissions Trading System from January 2012. That means even American carriers will eventually have to buy some carbon permits to comply with European Union law.
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Under the European system, each European Union country will be responsible for selling permits to individual airlines that use that country’s airports most frequently. The idea is to reduce the administrative burden, but it also potentially means big revenues for countries with busy airports.

New Haven Independent: Ira Flatow Scorns Science For, & By, Dummies

You know something’s wrong with science education when 30 out of 32 Harvard graduates cannot explain why the Northern Hemisphere is warmer in the summer and colder in winter.

A telling snippet of video, showing educated graduates explaining incorrectly that the seasons are caused by Earth’s apogee and perigee, is one of Ira Flatow’s prime pieces of evidence that the U.S. is part of a “science challenged” world.

Flatow presented “Talking Science In A Science-Challenged World” at Becton Center Tuesday. The event was sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.

Flatow (rhymes with Plato), a science journalist and 35-year veteran of public radio and television, told an audience of Yale faculty and students that they better become adept at providing snappy television spots explaining their research.

Newspapers and television have become vacuous purveyors of mindless entertainment, giving scant coverage to issues such as global climate change, stem cell research, and alternative energy, he said.