If you recall, the Portland, Oregon schools decided to go full bore Warmist and censor all opposing views on climate change, because they’re super into learning and knowledge and stuff. Warmists Dave Appell at Oregon Live is cool with this
The first responsibility of any school is to teach what is known. Man’s influence on climate is by now well-established, as the board notes. Climate contrarians, despite all their bluster, have never put forth an alternate scientific explanation for modern warming that explains what we see.
If I were a Portland public school teacher, I would happily give my pupils a good, long hard look at the contrarian’s positions on global warming — and show them exactly why they are full of holes, of tricks and poor science that don’t agree with observations, and why man’s emission of greenhouse gases are a far superior hypothesis to explain what’s going on.
Because, after all, the vast majority of scientists now accept man-made climate change, and they do so because it agrees with and explains observations.
My favorite new word: duckspeak!
But it is the rare high school student who will know enough science — enough thermodynamics, enough math, including advanced calculus, and enough quantum physics — to definitively decide for herself that man is the cause of modern warming. There are, I think, simply too many subtle and deep scientific points in the argument.
No problem, Warmists who don’t understand it will Tell You What To Think and Believe.
I don’t know if science teachers have enough preparation time to make this kind of argument. But I hope they don’t feel it necessary to “present both sides.” Because the science falls strongly to one side — the man-made one.
Lots of people thought this about lots of things, and we’re eventually proven wrong. Climate change is a pseudo religious cult.
