Thursday, June 16, 2011

How is climate change really taught in our schools?- Businessgreen mobile
"Climate change crops up in geography and science, yes, but it also crops up in business studies, economics, English, politics and philosophy."

What's interesting about this is that climate change is not a topic mentioned on the curriculum of many of those subjects; teachers just use it as an aid because it is a relevant issue that pupils will have heard about.
Richard Littlemore | Skeptical Science launches interactive history
187 papers are openly skeptical of climate change, its seriousness or its anthropogenic cause.
Flashback:  Chris Mooney | Who 'Framed' Naomi Oreskes?
Oreskes examined a sample of 928 peer reviewed articles on "global climate change," and strikingly, didn't find a single one that explicitly challenged the view that humans are driving global warming through their emissions.
Cooler Earth: The Ice Age is coming... don't panic! | Mail Online
The Prime Minister has been deeply influenced by Senator Al Gore’s latest film, Ice Station Zebra, about the perils of global cooling. One memorable scene features a lonely zebra shivering to death in Tanzania.
...
The spectre of mastedons, woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers wandering the streets of Tunbridge Wells in search of prey is very real, the Prime Minister warned.

No comments: