Brainwashing our children?

I was actually planning to do some of my own research on the whole global warming issue. I feel I can't honestly understand a topic until I know enough about it to start making my own theories.

I'm torn on the global warning theory because there are facts to support it, but there is always some bias involved in research or studies conducted to actually observe these things. Since we only have a small time-frame to measure temperature, we don't know if this is a normal cycle or not. Perhaps hundreds of years ago we experienced the same period of a warming climate, but as nature does with most things the temperature evened out again.

If you ever get an email back from that teacher, maybe you should post an excerpt. It would be interesting to see the reply.

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This is a serious problem with our education industry. Public Schools seem to be constantly susceptible to indoctrinating children on any and every social agenda of the left.

Regardless of ones opinions on any particular agenda, it should seem obvious that there is more than enough basic education that needs to be taught to fill the school day.

My neighbor who is a teacher’s union representative comes back from various meeting and conventions laden down with some of the most far leftist literature you can imagine. They literally use her dues to buy copies of Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals and hand them out to every teacher who belongs to the union.
It really is a political machine that promotes its own through a patronage system. Interested in quality education without the (needless) indoctrination in the cause of the month club need to band together and take on this formidable force (be it global warming paranoia – or homosexual indoctrination – or anti American bias – or slandering religion) A quality education should be controversy free. There is enough history, science, English & math that they are NOT learning.

We should not indoctrinate our children with crazy theories.
Those big chunks of Greenland and Antarctica must be thinning and breaking apart because of some perverse liberal conspiracy.
It is a good thing that we have the moral beacon of that unrepentant drug addict, hypocrite, doctor-shopping, hateful, womanizing, vulgar, disgusting Rush Limbaugh to guide us on how to pursue the truth about this subject.

When I was in 7th grade, I did a project against global warming. I mostly cited State of Fear by Michael Creighton...but I still don't know exactly what to think about global warming.

Also on-topic, my younger brother is in 5th grade. He was given homework to read and take notes on pro-global warming theory articles and then discuss them with his class. This isn't 5th grade curriculum, it's the opinions of his teacher.

Not only are the public schools brainwashing our children, but also TELEVISIONS programming is brainwashing our children.
We teach our children good values, and CARTOONS teach so many values that you may not have a clue.
Public schools get funding from the Federal Government.
Their are organizations that oversee and decide what books are in our public schools...
If the schools want Federal Grant Money, they have to push books which the these organizations choose.
If the public schools want Grant money, they have to push the agenda that is chosen, like, Gay Rights, Planned Parenthood, which includes Abortion....So much more...I have more on my website if you are interested.

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Good blog. I agree with your point. (although I'm not sure quoting Rush is exactly the greatest idea) And if they're gonna teach one climate change theory, they should teach all climate change theories. And put emphasis on the fact that they are just THEORIES. None of is has actually been proven, beyond a reasonable doubt. They should be teaching about how pollution and destruction of the rainforests is hurting all of us. Wether or not it's causing global warming doesn't matter. It's been proven that trees help to regulate oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air. It's been proven that car exhaust and cigarettes are terrible for your lungs, and that dumping in lakes kills fish and leaves humans in fear of taking a shower. Support or not of the climate change theories should be left to debate teams. That way kids can form their own opinion after hearing and thinking about the issues.

Although I agree with you on your point about schools and "brainwashing", I also think that there's not enough evidence to say that Global Warming is or is not occuring although there are statistics that show that Earth has been rising in temperatures for centuries but the causes are not completely known and accounted for.

I was at high school in the 1980's. Back then we learnt a great deal about climate change without the hysteria that seems to surround it today. As long as teachers offset the hype with cold hard scientific facts then they are doing their job. Sadly there are many well intentioned but ignorant teachers out there.

First a few facts:
Global warming is a very real phenomena. Global cooling is also. The greenhouse affect is also and there is tangible evidence of the problems it can cause right here in our own solar system.
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Climate change is the term that covers all the current climatic theories that we have. Climate change can be rapid or can take thousands of years to take effect. Climate change is a major part of the rise of new species, the extinction of species and the constant adaptation of species already present on our planet. Climate change is TOTALLY NATURAL.....

The temperature of the earth rarely stays constant. The last 100,000 years, which has seen the rise of man has been one of the most stable periods of the earth's climate that science currently knows about. Ice ages are thought to come and go every 30-60 thousand years and if that is the case the earth is well over due for an ice ace.

We know the horrible consequences of a run away green house affect. We can see the results most clearly on Venus where night time temperatures varies little from the day time temperatures of approximately 450°C. Because of the heavy atmosphere consisting of over 95% CO₂ heat con not escape during the night and this has caused a progressive build up of heat across the planets surface over millennia.

Mercury, which is closer to the sun has temperatures that vary from as little as -195°C (night time temperature) to as much as 430°C (day time temperature) because of its almost non existent atmosphere around 3.6% carbon dioxide with helium, argon, nitrogen and oxygen making up around 33.5% of the atmosphere allowing the planet to cool considerable on its night side.

Earth however has an atmosphere made of comparatively light gasses to Venus and heavier gasses than Mercury. Nitrogen and Oxygen make up the bulk of the atmosphere (78% and 21%) with only 0.04% CO₂. So even if we continue to spew CO₂ into the air, will we ever change the Earth's atmosphere to a point where no life can exist? There are a lot of scientists and media organisation that say it will. But how do they know?

The Earth's climate changes constantly and the best guesstimates are in the order of 2-6° over the course of the last million years. But careful research shows that the Jurassic period was some 6-8° warmer than average surface temperatures today. Life existed then and quite abundantly, so why is the 4-6° rise that people quote going to be catastrophic to life on our planet?

These facts are important to teach. The hysteria surrounding global warming needs to be tempered by the truth. Yes if the temperatures rise there will no doubt be mass extinctions. Yes if the temperature rises it may well cause an accelerated greenhouse affect. Yes if the temperature rises it may well melt a great deal of the polar ice caps, but should that be the only thing they teach? How about all the new forms of life that will evolve to exist in the new conditions. The adaptations that the stronger species will make for their continued survival? The way the earth and its inhabitants will become stronger in order to survive?

Now I have totally lost track of where I was going with this, but I will post it anyway cause I think that learning that change for the earth is normal, natural and PROMOTES life is important..... Sorry for rambling.

Cathii
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