Schools foster climate illiteracy - OregonLive.com

...And it's not only social studies texts that adopt a ho-hum attitude about global warming. In the widely used Pearson/Prentice Hall textbook "Physical Science: Concepts in Action," high school students don't meet the concept of climate change until Page 782. The few paragraphs on the human causes of climate change are littered with doubt. The section begins: "Human activities may also change climate over time." May? And then in boldface as the key to the section: "One possible climate change is caused by the addition of carbon dioxide and certain other gases into the atmosphere."

Possible climate change? The text is thick with a mealy language of "might," "could" and "may": "Carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles, power plants, and other sources may contribute to global warming."

Last year, NASA's Hansen said the CEOs of large fossil fuel companies should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature for spreading disinformation about climate change. Hansen said these distortions would end up in school textbooks. He could pay a visit to schools in the USA's supposed "green capital" to find evidence for his indictment.

The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - News - Protesters say no to cap-and-trade 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 400 people gathered at the Culture Center at the state Capitol Saturday to protest cap-and-trade legislation, now being considered by the U.S. Senate.
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People attending the rally carried signs stating: "Cap & Trade Will Cost Jobs," "Cap & Trade is Another Tax for West Virginia" and "Obama: Anti-Christ."
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Charles Wilfong, president of the West Virginia Farm Bureau, told the audience at the Culture Center that cap-and-trade legislation will "probably be the biggest tax increase in American history."

Wilfong rejected the "assumption that global warming is caused by humans ... a radical fringe is trying to implement this legislation."

He added, "A little under $1 trillion in new taxes over a 10-year period will be spent on social programs supported by the liberal leaders of Congress."

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Al Gore is the Aimee Semple McPherson of the climate change movement. He bangs one meaty paw on the pulpit, scaring the congregation with apocalyptic visions of a man-made hell, while with the other he coolly extracts their folding money in support of certain miraculous, planet-saving technologies in which he just happens to have a small private interest. All that’s needed to make the picture complete is for him to be discovered in a love-nest down in Mexico, shacked up in a hotel with the nubile daughter of a coal magnate.

Gore continues to write his own gospel, recently claiming in an interview on ABC Australia that a court ruling in the UK went in his favor, when it is well-known (even in the distant Antipodes) that the judge held that Gore’s Cli-Fi movie, An Inconvenient Truth, contained nine significant errors of scientific fact.

For some reason, monomania comes to mind...