Teachers grapple with climate change: 'A pretty scary topic'

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“A pretty scary topic.' Teachers struggle to sift through junk science, misleading and outdated information to teach climate change.

In this April 25, 2019, photo, science teacher Sarah Ott speaks to her class about climate literacy in Dalton, Ga. Teachers across the country describe struggles finding trustworthy materials to help them teach their students about climate change.

“There’s a lot of information that’s out there that is broken, old, misleading, not scientifically sound, not sound technically,” said Frank Niepold, a climate education coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a book available online, Petro Pete has a nightmare about everything that would be missing from his life if there were no petroleum products, from his toothbrush to his school bus.

“The school systems of the country are so fragmented and under-resourced that they have no choice but to turn to people like the oil industry who offer them free stuff,” he said.

 

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MikeMeliaAP I don't appreciate 's MikeMeliaAP lying about me & my fellow scientists. The evidence shows manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial. I'm one of 31,487 scientists who signed Global Warming Petition, attesting to that:

It’s easy enough to teach. This Earth has ALWAYS had climate change.

MikeMeliaAP We're using our Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change and the campaign to send it to teachers all over the country to help teachers address the problem! The guide is here: The crowdfunding campaign is here: TeachClimateScience

Acid Rain killed us a long time ago. Or maybe it didn’t?

Some how in my mind all kids are green

Climate changed IS the outdated misleading information, you boobs

AGW is a Fraud.

Sifting through the bullshit. Hmmm

'Climate change' isnt science, its religion. Dont believe me? Question/challange someone's belief in it and see what happens

Brainwashing them while they're young, if you love your kids, homeschool.

It’s hard to make weather look scary—even to junior high students who have inquisitive minds. The data doesn’t support the hoax. Tell the kids that the only solution is to strip money from everyone with no particular use for it in mind. That will impress them!

Mmmm because we must trust science and never question it, yet here we are, ”science” that was produced just thirty years ago, totally inaccurate.

Yeah we are headed for an ice age because the earth is cyclical. That is scary. What’s irresponsible is telling children their parents are to blame.

Outdated information, like “the wold will end by 2014 if we don’t fix climate change” from 2001.

Climate change is the junk science

You mean to brainwash more kids to follow the cult of climate change

This is propaganda. Everybody knows the science was settled in 2005, therefore the information can never be out of date. Obviously you guys are just shills for the oil companies trying to undermine out faith in science and its predictions

Definition of ‘junk science‘: Data and conclusions that don’t support the climate change agenda.

Climate delusion is a ponzi scheme designed to steal your freedom and money. It's wealth distribution to make the rich like John Kerry, Al Gore, George Soros, and Tom Steyer even richer than they already are while making the poor and middle class poorer.

teachers struggle with basic academics so what the education system does is to assign unwarranted merit

“Teachers push forward on their leftist indoctrination.”

Start here: BillNye

Teachers shouldn't be teaching hoaxes. After we deal with this abortion issue we are cracking down on teachers next.

How about the dangers of incurring too much non dischargeable student debt while pursuing hobby degrees?

GOP supporters have owned the book to school market for decades. Control history and science you control the people.

Got to keep up the hoax

It’s true. “Climate change” is junk

When the US is ranked in the top worldwide for core competencies like reading, writing, math, language etc....THEN this

Let's just stick with the 3R's

Lol

I thought we agreed to keep religion out of the classroom.

No slant here...

You don't think they're trying to make the data fit their narrative do you? They wouldn't do that would they?

It's all bogus. And you would know it if you would actually look at the data. Not cherry pick it

So the hockey-stick model is on the chopping block, right?

Yes, it's bogus.

By junk science, you mean climate change, right?

'Scary' is an unfortunate buzzword. 'Challenging' Is more appropriate for both educators and students to use. Teachers should provide unbiased guidance and help continue the development of problem solving, creative thinking and ideation skills in these types of topics IMO.

They’ll teach what the DNC tells them to teach.

I thought we weren't allowed to teach religion in public schools?

12 years from now it won’t matter, the world is ending, according to democrats, the good news, these kids won’t have to pay off their college

Better that they should spend that time teaching kids how to properly understand the media and those that use it and how to find answers to that kind of information on their own. Cause they (the teachers) don't know any more than anyone else does. They're just people too.

When the “outdated information” is actually more accurate than the latest climate report from the IPCC., now that is scary.

Don't worry. It will all be over in 11.5 years.

Climate change is a myth to promote money making ideas

Tell them about how South Florida was destroyed years ago...

Climate changes. It always has. That s why an ancient tropical forest was found in Norway. 😉.

What do you want me to do about it? Maybe I want to drive a monster truck through a barren wasteland wearing tires as makeshift armor while saying what a day what a lovely day.

I mean, the research has been around for like a century... perhaps if all our nation's public school curriculum wasn't published by like four companies and funded by oil and coal? Not that that's the teachers' fault, but we all know why we are here and in this situation, fellas

. Delusion is a difficult concept, especially when indoctrinating.

Hate science, hate America. The climate denialist should be given the same deference as the Creationist, which is to say none.

We're not the first organisms on Earth whose success led to their own poisoning. We just have better television programming, credits cards and a strong sense of denial and self-delusion....

Yeup...

We can tell.

Is it on the standardized tests?

yes climate does change , it's called seasons...

'Junk science'

manmadeclimatechangeisahoax

'junk everything'

Why are they teaching climate change? Parents, relocate your kids to a real school.

hot in summer...cold in winter. Been like that since I've been a kid! If it snows in July, then I'd worry about climate change!!

Give them the ‘Chicken Little’ book.

Because Text Books the rest of the nation uses are chosen by TEXAS! When You think TEXAS you get the garbage dump of education!

Man made climate change is junk science. Ok libs- come and get me... Let’s go back to the consensus about the coming ice age in the 70s, Acid rain destroying the world, if the hole in the ozone didn’t kill us in the 80s, global warming killing us in the 90s, & now climate change

We are here TO experience our worlds changes this time round..hold on prep to survive it row boats are neededn every flood ridden areas get one

scientist on this subject and many more have been wrong a LOT. aspirin the easy example of, so looking for another angle on this only shows your gullible and regurgitate whatever some one tells you.

Teach your children common sense critical thinking teach them RESPECT for themselves each others space and responsibilities respect OUR COUNTRY THE FLAG pledge OF 🇺🇸 LOOSE VALUES YOU LOOSE

To all Teachers. Climate will always change. It is the height of arrogance or ignorance to think we can cause or control climate change. It is not worth a penny of concern.

The books I’m using to teach my 5th graders Science is from six years before they were born. Let’s just say that I ad lib a lot.

Climate Change is an even bigger hoax than Russia Collusion.

Teach your children this book 📖

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