From a school textbook (“a comprehensive introduction to the study of Geography”) used by Grade 8 students in NSW, Australia:
Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is warming, there are still people who deny that is a result of human activity. The most vocal of these deniers are conservative political thinktanks (sic) and the right-wing radio ‘shock jocks.’ (emph. mine)
Why, it’s almost as if unionized teachers are using Geography classes to brainwash kids with politically-partisan propaganda:
Fortunately, a new generation of world leaders is taking global warming seriously. In the United States of America, President Barack Obama is working to reduce America’s reliance on fossil fuels and is providing leadership in international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions…In Australia, the Rudd Labor Government is legislating for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme….
In the United States of America, President Barack Obama is working to reduce America.
This one abbreviated sentence says it all.
You can see why Global warming fanatics so love this fairy tale. They can bludgeon Conservatives constantly while appearing wise in their own eyes. While disregarding any evidence that contradicts them. No matter how much. This becomes a faith issue. Thus turning this from science into a political movement with a tone of absolutism against anyone who disagrees or proves otherwise. The Jim Jones of environmentalism.
I thought the world has been cooling since 1997. At least that’s what the warmists say in their disgust that their predictions haven’t come true. Despite way too much education in the social sciences I was never able to help my kids at school because the curriculum was based on bullShit, not knowledge.
It really is a religion isn’t it.
According to the media. the main ‘scandal’ of the fake Heartland document was the supposed attempt to influence education in the classrooms.
Yet, here we have a real textbook containing unabashed propaganda devoid of facts and all you hear are crickets.
The author of the book:
http://www.educ.mq.edu.au/contact/our_staff/dr_grant_kleeman/
We must burn all the schools. Well maybe not … It’s too late for that. The progressives beat us to it. They own the educational industry.
Take it back now and change it or we are doomed.
What are the odds of anyone taking it away from the commie teachers unions and the progressive architects of it’s curriculum?
Zero, the USA is currently locked in battle over whose going to pay for the trojans … lubed, and ultra thin for maximum pleasure and protection, not to mention abortions on demand.
Obama;s plan is simple. There are more people than the state can feed, cloth, house and care for so let’s provide easy ways to reduce indigenous population growth, which opens the door to more third world immigration … You know …. Obama’s people.
It’s all so messed up … who cares anymore …. If Al doesn’t get ya, Allah will.
The books are mandated by the school boards or education ministry, not the teachers. The teachers have to push the curriculum, or else. Has nothing to do with the union.
“Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is warming, there are still people who deny that is a result of human activity”
It presumes there is no other explanation for climate change, despite overwhelming geological evidence that the planet has been both warmer and cooler many times in the past, before humans even existed.
Then goes on to applaud lefty political figures and condemning conservatives.
Definitely propaganda, no science, no geography.
I hope this text is removed from the curriculum immediately. The parents of NSW grade 8s should consider a class action suit.
This ticks me off, and yet it is not too surprising.
I really don’t have any faith in parent’s reacting to this. Too many heads in the cloud, and faces stuck to the tube. And too many have accepted the scam, and want to follow the crowd.
$69.95 for that? what a racket.
“Why, it’s almost as if unionized teachers are using Geography classes to brainwash kids with politically-partisan propaganda:”
Naw, can’t be. This will never happen as teachers are too professional to become willing pawns in an exercise to brainwash school children. Oh wait, I remember now, last week in Ottawa wasn’t it. All these incidents must be coincidental.
we are 5 meters short here in 2012 , yes 5 meters off what the experts predicted only 20 years ago for sea level rise by this year.. but here we have CBCpravda tossing out another one . note , they emphasis this guy isnt a flake .because after 20 years of this , yes. we have decided they are flakes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/20/bc-sea-levels-rising.html
“One of the most famous atmospheric scientists, James Hansen, is arguing we could be facing five-metre higher sea levels by the end of the century, and he’s not a flake, he’s a very renowned scientists,” said Clague.”
Lost me after reading this crap.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
-Vladimir Lenin
You have to teach your kids BEFORE they go to school.
Once we fully get our countries back, there needs to be investigations and criminal trials.
The whole public educational system from administration to the school janitors will suffice to start.
There may never be another opportunity to tax the hell out of the public over a .038% trace gas. Carbon trading. What a sweet scam. Al gore is a genius. Just think what he could have accomplished if he had been President. Bet Obama has pictures of him on his bedroom wall.
Oh gawd, AGW is so – so last year, don’t you think?
Where is Galileo when we need him most?
What a ringing endorsement for home-schooling and abolishing teachers’ unions if ever I heard it.
Have some teachers draft curricula. Then present the curricula to the movers and shakers in the work-force, people in the know and even the average citizen just to see if it passes muster. Some teachers cannot be trusted.
Knight 99 “Once we fully get our countries back, there needs to be investigations and criminal trials.”
I want to see Michael Mann and his friends before in Senate hearings answering questions about whether public funds were well spent.
And today in Vancouver, ‘climate scientists’ are meeting and warning that Delta and other areas may be under as much as 3 meters of water in the next 40 years.
Despite the fact that there has been no real measureable changes in sea level over the last 40.
However, we do know that sea levels have dropped (and thus could rise again) since Ephesus in Turkey was once a seaside port. It is now some 6 km from the ocean and lost it’s population due to mosquito borne disease that occured from the swampy areas that were formerly their port area.
Yet the hubris of today’s ‘scientists’ would have us believe we live in an age that is unique to and caused by, mankind’s activity.
Marc in Calgary kindly offered the web site for the author of the textbook.
In a classic case of ‘projection’ which those on the left so often do, here’s what the bio of good Dr. Kleeman has to say:
“Grant’s PhD examined the role of interest groups in shaping what and how students learn using the controversy surrounding the mandating of curriculum perspectives in the 1992 NSW Stage 4/5 Geography Syllabus as a case study. He now researches the role of interest groups more generally. Of particular interest is the way such groups seek to influence what and how students learn…”
And Australian parents tolerate this s–t? What a bunch of pussies! Call in Child Protection or whatever they call it in Oz.
Somebody needs to inform that textbook publisher that there hasn’t been a “Rudd Labor government” in almost two years.
Kudos to the teacher who sent it along to Andrew Bolt.
In the United States of America, President Barack Obama…In Australia, the Rudd Labor Government…
Excellent.
When the young blighters are old enough to vote they’ll know who to blame for the sorry state of economic affairs in their respective countries.
*piano wire…lamp posts…some assembly required.*
These little endocrinated Marxists will eat us all before it’s over.
And the Warmists always deny that their position is political. I guess this puts an end to that claim.
“In the United States of America, President Barack Obama is working to reduce America’s reliance on fossil fuels and is providing leadership in international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Mr Obama is also a very smart, athletic, and handsome man. Everybody loves Barack Obama, Don’t you love Barack Obama, too? At the bottom of this page are the words of a song that you can sing in praise of Barack Obama…”
This kind of thing is really, really starting to piss me off!
It isn’t anything new I learned about the Greenhouse Effect (that’s what it used to be called) in Geography class back in ’83. It’s only in the past few years the idea has become controversial.
The right wing think tanks are funding this stuff. It’s always been suspected but the smoking gun just turned up.