Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Maryland Adds Environmental Literacy in High Schools - FoxNews.com
"That is not really education," says Ebell. "It's propaganda and its designed to raise up a new generation of easily led and poorly educated and misinformed students."
Bachmann makes campaign stop in NH - Beaumont Enterprise
She received applause and cheers when she restated her opposition to the idea that human activity causes climate change
Big tank at Monterey Bay Aquarium gets major face lift - ContraCostaTimes.com
Additional exhibits explaining creatures like the humpback whale, leatherback sea turtle and albatross are scheduled to open in February. And they, like the refurbished wing opening on Saturday, carry conservation messages to the aquarium's 1.9 million annual visitors about overfishing, plastic pollution in the ocean and global warming, part of a trend the aquarium has highlighted increasingly since it opened in 1984 with a $55 million gift from tech titans David and Lucile Packard.
When science is hidden behind a smokescreen | Science | Guardian Weekly
Even for distinguished academics, scientific facts may take second place to ideology, Oreskes says.

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