The Great Unwinding continues: Insane New Mexico climate hoax class gets the well-deserved ax

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Despite the popularity of the 10-week class put on by the New Mexico Environment Department since 2008, NMED is quietly terminating the program. The class ending Nov. 22 in Santa Fe will be the program’s last, even though $18,634 in federal Environmental Protection Agency and state match money designated for Climate Masters still remains.
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The grant provided NMED a total of $130,000 to teach the classes, modeled on a University of Oregon program that teaches citizens the science of climate change in exchange for 30 hours of relevant volunteer work.

An estimated 200 New Mexicans participated in the class, and two or three more would have been held had the program continued. The goal is for each student to reduce his or her personal greenhouse gas emissions by two tons per year and to influence about 50 people each to do the same, creating a multiplying emissions-reduction effect.
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Santa Fe Alliance Executive Director Vicki Pozzebon, who spoke at two of the classes, says they shouldn’t provoke controversy.

“There’s nothing controversial about climate issues,” Pozzebon says. “If you don’t agree there are such things as climate issues, I suppose it would be controversial, but this was something educating the community on more than just that,” Pozzebon says.

In fact, Climate Masters helped cut through the myths around global warming, Shapiro says.