Sunday, June 12, 2011

Climate change should be excluded from curriculum, says adviser | Education | The Guardian
Leaving climate change out of the curriculum would allow sceptical teachers not to teach their pupils about climate change. “It would be like a creationist teacher not teaching about evolution," said Bob Ward.
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Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said.

Tim Oates, whose wide-ranging review of the curriculum for five- to 16-year-olds will be published later this year, said it should be up to schools to decide whether – and how – to teach climate change, and other topics about the effect scientific processes have on our lives.

In an interview with the Guardian, Oates called for the national curriculum "to get back to the science in science".
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Climate change also comes up in the geography curriculum and may be tackled in religious education too.
Check out the questions in this Yale/George Mason global warming poll (PDF)

A Change of View on Climate Change | Opinion | Epoch Times
[Tom Harris] So, what will our children and grandchildren think when they look back at this period? Meteorologist Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicts: "The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations." This is especially true when they see what problems we are not handling properly, such things as cleaning up toxic waste dumps, securing vitally needed energy supplies and constructing wells for the roughly five million Africans (mostly children) who die each year due to contaminated drinking water.

Dismissing global warming concerns as "contemplating our climatic navel", Lindzen concludes, "It's going to look silly for the future." I would say it's going to look criminal.

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