First the good news :
LOS ALAMITOS – A new high school advanced placement class that addresses global warming has prompted the school board to start requiring teachers to present opposing views in courses that include controversial topics.
Los Alamitos Unified School district trustees unanimously agreed to update the policy on controversial issues at the request of board member Jeffrey Barke, who said he is concerned about “global warming dogma” and wants students to be offered a balanced perspective on the topic.
“There are two clearly divergent opinions on global warming,” Barke said in an interview. “There are those who believe that global warming is a fact, created by man’s impact on the environment and the consequences will be devastating. There are others on the conservative side who believe it’s much ado about nothing. It’s overhyped and politically motivated, and the science is not solid, and there’s room for more studies.”
Since news of the board’s decision was posted on a numerous national blogs, Barke said he has received more than 100 e-mails criticizing the district’s move and attacking him personally.
And always the clown :
Los Alamitos resident J.M. Ivler, who has a daughter at the high school, did not e-mail Barke, but he was critical of the school board.
“There is consensus in the field that we have global warming happening, it is getting warmer and it is related to what we are doing to the planet,” he said. “That is not in dispute in the scientific community. It is in dispute in the political community. This is a science class. Teach science.”
Teach science is a great idea. They should show Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer lectures on video.
If they feel that it’s necessary to teach kids in school that global warming is a fact let them! and let them try to convince these kids and their parents that Global warming is a real danger (Even with all the errors and flawed science backing the hypothesizes), the sooner children are exposed to all the climate change predictions and the junk science behind it all the sooner their young minds will begin to ask them the tough questions.
I don’t believe children are the brain dead idiots these people take them for. There will always be the bright kids that go against the grain and question what they are being taught in school as fact, It is more disturbing that some schools disprove of such behavior from their students (possibly their brightest) and this sort of educational prejudice could effect a students curricular achievements, that bothers me!!
The trick is to convince kids that bad weather never used to happen.
Until 2011, there never was a flood or a tornado. Those are “exceptional” events!