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Related: About this forumClimate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-change-school-20120116,0,2808837.story[font face=Times,Times New Roman,Serif][font size=5]Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms[/font]
[font size=4]Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. A national watchdog group says it will start monitoring classrooms.[/font]
By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
January 16, 2012
[font size=3]Reporting from Washington
A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools.
Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown so politicized that skepticism of the broad scientific consensus has seeped into classrooms.
Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying climate change. Tennessee and Oklahoma also have introduced legislation to give climate change skeptics a place in the classroom.
In May, a school board in Los Alamitos, Calif., passed a measure, later rescinded, identifying climate science as a controversial topic that required special instructional oversight.
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[font size=4]Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. A national watchdog group says it will start monitoring classrooms.[/font]
By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
January 16, 2012
[font size=3]Reporting from Washington
A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools.
Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown so politicized that skepticism of the broad scientific consensus has seeped into classrooms.
Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying climate change. Tennessee and Oklahoma also have introduced legislation to give climate change skeptics a place in the classroom.
In May, a school board in Los Alamitos, Calif., passed a measure, later rescinded, identifying climate science as a controversial topic that required special instructional oversight.
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Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2012
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Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)1. The usual suspects, I see
Hurry up, let's go extinct.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,937 posts)3. Because if we deny it…
it isnt true!
Damn the science! Full speed ahead!
OKIsItJustMe
(19,937 posts)2. NCSE Tackles Climate Change Denial
http://ncse.com/climate-change/ncse-tackles-climate-change-denial/
[font face=Times,Times New Roman,Serif][font size=5]NCSE Tackles Climate Change Denial[/font]
January 13th, 2012
[font size=4]A new initiative in the struggle for quality science education[/font]
[font size=3]Science education is under attackagain.
This time it's under attack by climate change deniers, who ignore a mountain of evidence gathered over the last fifty years that the planet is warming and that humans are largely responsible. These deniers attempt to sabotage science education with fringe ideas, pseudoscience, and outright lies.
But the National Center for Science Education won't let 'em get away with it.
"We consider climate change a critical issue in our own mission to protect the integrity of science education," says Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, NCSE's executive director. Long a leader in the fight to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools, NCSE now sees creationist-like tactics being used in the attack on climate education.
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January 13th, 2012
[font size=4]A new initiative in the struggle for quality science education[/font]
[font size=3]Science education is under attackagain.
This time it's under attack by climate change deniers, who ignore a mountain of evidence gathered over the last fifty years that the planet is warming and that humans are largely responsible. These deniers attempt to sabotage science education with fringe ideas, pseudoscience, and outright lies.
But the National Center for Science Education won't let 'em get away with it.
"We consider climate change a critical issue in our own mission to protect the integrity of science education," says Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, NCSE's executive director. Long a leader in the fight to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools, NCSE now sees creationist-like tactics being used in the attack on climate education.
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