Instead of connecting global warming to rising emissions, conservatives in the state want schools to ascribe the changes to “natural” fluctuations.
The board, which is dominated by Republicans, adopted changes proposed by board member Patricia Hardy. “If they’re going to tout how wonderful the alternative climate change stuff is, then they need to also say all the things that are not good about it and not just hit on the fossil fuel industry,” Hardy said, according to E&E N
ews. “Our schools are paid for by the fossil fuel industry for the most part, so there’s a little bit of disingenuousness.” Instead of connecting rising temperatures to human activity and the fossil fuel industry, educational materialsnatural fluctuations in global temperatures, according to the new guidance, E&E News reportedn are to blame for changing temperatures
. Hardy claimed that adding this change to textbooks would be “giving both sides” of climate change science and the causes of global warming, according to E&E News. Several on the
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