INTERNAL DOCUMENTS:The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax
To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax
By Brad Johnson on Feb 14, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Heartland Institute's secret plans for a K-12 climate-denier curriculum.
Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a global warming curriculum for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as a major scientific controversy. This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.
Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective, Heartlands confidential 2012 fundraising document bemoans. The group believes that Wojicks project has potential for great success, because he has contacts at virtually all the national organizations involved in producing, certifying, and promoting scientific curricula. The document explains that Wojick will produce modules that promote the conspiratorial claim that climate change is controversial:
Wojick would produce modules for Grades 7-9 on environmental impact (environmental impact is often difficult to determine. For example there is a major controversy over whether or not humans are changing the weather), for Grade 6 on water resources and weather systems, and so on.
Wojick will receive $5,000 per module, with twenty modules produced a year. Wojick, who manages the Climate Change Debate listserv, is not a climate scientist. His doctorate is in epistomology.
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