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It contained the organizations book Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, as well as a DVD rejecting the human role in climate change and arguing instead that rising temperatures have been caused primarily by natural phenomena. The material will be sent to an additional 25,000 teachers every two weeks until every public-school science teacher in the nation has a copy, Heartland president and CEO Joseph Bast said in an interview last week. If so, the campaign would reach more than 200,000 K-12 science teachers.
Accompanying the materials is a cover letter from Lennie Jarratt, project manager of Heartlands Center for Transforming Education. He asks teachers to consider the possibility that the science is not settled. If thats the case, then students would be better served by letting them know a vibrant debate is taking place among scientists, he writes. The letter also points teachers to an online guide to using the DVD in their classrooms.
The Heartland initiative dismisses multiple studies showing scientists are in near unanimous agreement that humans are changing the climate. Even if human activity is contributing to climate change, the book argues, it would probably not be harmful, because many areas of the world would benefit from or adjust to climate change.
The campaign elicited immediate derision from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit in Oakland, California that monitors climate change education in classrooms.
Its not science, but its dressed up to look like science, said NCSE executive director Ann Reid. Its clearly intended to confuse teachers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/
AJT
(5,240 posts)That's one of those rightwing double-speak titles. How scary.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)So much disposable income being funneled into groups and organizations that want to buy influence. I can't even imagine how great our country would be if all of that money being used for gaining more profit and power was used to do good things. Just too much fucking money some people have
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)But the Heartland institute is happy to contribute
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)I opened up my Facebook page last night to find that someone I don't know (it was a friend of someone I went to college with--not even a friend; just an acquaintance) had written a message. It wasn't directed at me; it only showed up because my college acquaintance "liked" it. The message said, "If you take Al Gore seriously, we can't be friends." And the comments that followed it were nothing but a cacophony of barking seals slapping their flippers together. One said, "Al gore is exactly like the Clintons, Obamas, and Pelosies (sic) and all the other communists in this country."
I don't understand people who can be so easily brainwashed into FERVENTLY believing something that is patently not true AND against their own best interests (and by the way, why do these people still call people they don't like "communists"--didn't that stop being a thing like 30 years ago?) It's enough to shake your faith in humanity. Then I remembered that they were all from West Virginia.
procon
(15,805 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)will watch this. The rest will toss it in the trash.
shraby
(21,946 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)heartland institute....that's all republicans are good at, names.
sounds all warm and fuzzy, yet they are willing to tell future generations to go fuck themselves
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)a creationist.
big bible thumper
I'm sure there are lots more like him
SAD!
msongs
(67,441 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and other "Science Facts"