Kansas Bill Would Require Teachers To Misinform Students About Climate Change

[Lakhota]

By Rebecca Leber

Last week, the Kansas House Education Committee introduced a bill that mandates teachers question the scientific basis of global warming, becoming the latest state to take up one of American Legislative Exchange Council’s “model bills” aiming to misrepresent climate change in schools.

Kansas would join Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Oklahoma as the fifth state to cast climate change as a “controversial” topic. But climate change is only controversial in political and polluter circles, not the scientific community. 97 percent of climate scientists actively publishing in the field agree climate change is human-caused.

As National Center for Science Education executive director Eugenie C. Scott explained, “The only effects of enacting such a misguided bill would be to discourage responsible teachers from presenting climate science accurately and to encourage irresponsible teachers to misrepresent it as controversial.”

Read the text of the bill:

More: Kansas Bill Would Require Teachers To Misinform Students About Climate Change

 

[Lakhota]

In biology class, public school students can't generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma: On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee is expected to consider a House bill that would forbid teachers from penalizing students who turn in papers attempting to debunk almost universally accepted scientific theories such as biological evolution and anthropogenic (human-driven) climate change.

More: Insist That People Coexisted With Dinosaurs...and Get an A in Science Class!

 

[Mr. H.]

Ironic, considering the millions of dollars going to Kansas schools each year through oil and natural gas production taxes.

 

[healthmyths]

Did you know for the last 50 years 12.5% of the EARTH's land mass WAS NOT included in the temperature readings that
Who would you believe then in this situation where there were only 4 recording stations for 12.5% of the EARTH's LAND MASS.. in other words

We found [U.S. weather] stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat.
We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.
Are surface temperature records reliable?

In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations – nearly 9 of every 10 – fail to meet the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating or radiating/reflecting heat source." (Watts 2009)

"The number of [Siberian] stations increased from 8 in 1901 to 23 in 1951 and then decreased to 12 from 1989 to present only four stations, those at Irkutsk, Bratsk, Chita and Kirensk, cover the entire 20th century.
IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations…
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world’s land mass.
The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
Climategatekeeping: Siberia « Climate Audit


Is that the kind of controversial information that IS NOT taught in global warming classes/

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Don't move to Kansas. Problem solved.

 

[healthmyths]

Would you believe they are looking for oil in the Arctic circle.. Why?
Oil is formed by decaying trees and we ALL know the Arctic circle has been very cold forever right so why are they looking for oil that came from decaying trees that could grow in arctic cold?
HMMMM... another topic NOT discussed in global warming classes I bet!

 

[Mr. H.]

EC, the new PC. Environmental Correctness.

 

[TruthSeeker56]

How DARE these teachers present BOTH sides of the global warming, er, "climate change" controversy!

 

[healthmyths]

Yea... those ignorant Kansas people I bet they didn't know what Al Gore recently told us..
Ellen: “Mm hmm.”
Gore: “And of course, there are a lot of problems with what they’re proposing.
It turns out plants need sunlight,”
» Al Gore Talks About Chemtrails on Ellen Show Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

And of course der leader of Global Warming... very smart man tells us..
"but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, .."

Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees' | NewsBusters

Again those poor ignorant farmers in Kansas that KNOW from birth that plants use sunlight, that tell you.. yea it gets real hot when harvesting sun flowers probably because
of the several millions of degrees right under their FEET!
The nickname “Sunflower State” calls to mind the wild flowers of the plains of Kansas

 

[Lakhota]

How DARE these teachers present BOTH sides of the global warming, er, "climate change" controversy!

Exactly, even the side that only 3% of climate scientists agree on...

 

[OriginalShroom]

Damn.. Some leftists just hate the truth being taught.

 

[OriginalShroom]

How DARE these teachers present BOTH sides of the global warming, er, "climate change" controversy!

Exactly, even the side that only 3% of climate scientists agree on...

Hell, it wasn't that long ago that all the best minds in the world thought the earth was flat and the center of the Galaxy.

 

[Lakhota]

Damn.. Some leftists just hate the truth being taught.

My "truth" agrees with 97% of climate scientists.

 

[healthmyths]

How DARE these teachers present BOTH sides of the global warming, er, "climate change" controversy!

Exactly, even the side that only 3% of climate scientists agree on...

Oh you mean these 3%????

Scientists in this section have made comments that the observed warming is more likely attributable to natural causes than to human activities. Their views on climate change are usually described in more detail in their biographical articles.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences[16]
Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[17][18]
Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa[19]
Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland[20]
David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester[21]
Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University[22]
William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University[23]
William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy, Princeton University[24]
William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology[25]
David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware[26]
Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa[27]
Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.[28][29]
Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of Mining Geology, the University of Adelaide.[30]
Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke University[31][32]
Tom Segalstad, head of the Geology Museum at the University of Oslo[33]
Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia[34][35][36]
Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[37]
Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville[38]
Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center[39]
Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, professor emeritus from University of Ottawa[40]
Scientists arguing that the cause of global warming is unknown

Scientists in this section have made comments that no principal cause can be ascribed to the observed rising temperatures, whether man-made or natural. Their views on climate change are usually described in more detail in their biographical articles.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks[41]
Claude Allègre, politician; geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris)[42]
Robert C. Balling, Jr., a professor of geography at Arizona State University[43]
John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC[44][45]
Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory[46]
Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology[47]
David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma[48]
Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists[49]
Scientists arguing that global warming will have few negative consequences

Scientists in this section have made comments that projected rising temperatures will be of little impact or a net positive for human society and/or the Earth's environment. Their views on climate change are usually described in more detail in their biographical articles.

Craig D. Idso, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University and founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change [50]
Sherwood Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University[51]
Patrick Michaels, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and retired research professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia[52]

 

[initforme]

Its kansas, nuff said.

 

[Lakhota]

Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real

Expert credibility in climate change

Information Is Beautiful | Climate Change: A Consensus Among Scientists?

 

[healthmyths]

Damn.. Some leftists just hate the truth being taught.

My "truth" agrees with 97% of climate scientists.

YOU MEAN based on this survey???
Where of the 10,257 survey sent..
ONLY 3,146 returned and of that 75 climate scientists said yes


That “98% all scientists” referred to a laughably puny number of 75 of those 77 who answered “yes”.
About that overwhelming 97-98% number of scientists that say there is a climate consensus? | Watts Up With That?

 

[healthmyths]

so when did 77 climate scientists become your 97% of the 10,000 surveyed but 3,000 returned and 77 said yes???

Explain that???

 

[Lakhota]

The earth is warming. The ice is melting. Seas will rise. There will be consequences...

 

[healthmyths]

Global warming mystery: Why are some glaciers growing? Around the world, ice caps are melting due to climate change, scientists say.
But a few icy masses in the Himalayas are, weirdly enough, getting bigger
Global warming mystery: Why are some glaciers growing? - The Week

Anyone bet that won't be a topic allowed in any global warming evangelistas classes???