Batchelor: Ice Age Ever Cometh « RBO

The true believers are much in the news, especially from the White House; you can see how a scary bedtime story of melting climates can focus the cohesive Democratic electorate to endorse the carbon tax. The doubters are not much in the news, and I speak with the wily coyote Marc Morano of Climate Depot now and again to find balance.

[Climate Fraud Promotion] Gets Teachers Dirty: Workshop Participants Hope [To Brainwash Students]

The field trips were part of a four-day workshop for the elementary, junior high and high school teachers to learn more about global climate change and renewable energy. The second annual "Global Climate Change in the Southwest: An Academy for Educators," was hosted by SRP and the Arizona Foundation for Resource Education.

Dawn Koberstein, a consultant with the foundation and the math facilitator at Chandler's Frye Elementary School, said the goal is to leave teachers with a better understanding of global climate change and its impact on the environment.

"It starts by teaching children because they are our future," Koberstein said. "The kids go home and tell their parents. That's where change happens. It's better to start young."
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John Jung, a Mesa High School environmental science and geometry teacher, said he was looking for activities that will get his kids energized.

"I always felt environmental education should be required," Jung said. "We're at a tipping point of where we are with our species."