“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions”.
‘Why is the sky fuzzy?’: Climate change lessons need to start as early as preschool
What does ‘endangered’ mean?” Vicki Sando asked a class of first graders on a recent Monday at P.S. 41 Greenwich Village School in Manhattan.
It was the first day of a three-day lesson in which the students would design and build their own contraptions to protect turtle eggs from danger. After watching a video on threats facing sea turtles, including rising sea levels and warming temperatures due to climate change, the students scattered to different tables. There, with a $1 total for supplies, they plotted out how they’d use cardboard, cotton balls and other materials to build their turtle egg containers. (snip)
Even a decade ago, the topic of climate change was, to many, academic and remote. But as temperatures rise, wildfires spread and storms intensify, the consequences of climate change have become part of life. It’s difficult for even the youngest children to overlook: Recently my 3.5-year-old noticed the smoky air caused by a fire in a nearby park and asked: “Why is the sky fuzzy?”
All of that has made it increasingly important for teachers to introduce the topic in the earliest grades, beginning in preschool, according to Kottie Christie-Blick, a climate change education consultant and an instructor at the University of San Diego. Christie-Blick was among several experts I spoke with about best practices for talking with the youngest students about climate change.
Catching them as young as possible to brainwash them into the doomsday cult.
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.”
? Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever. Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever…….LENIN
The left has turned to communism. Of this, there is no doubt, and for this, there is reason to fight and It is why I oppose child day care paid by the government, which has been a hot topic inside the Trump Family. Yes, I know that initially, they would try desperately to make sure teachers were vetted, but in the end, an entire generation of Leftist communists would be groomed into America-destroying Zombies.
The above post just illustrates they are already doing this with k-12 in many, many states. What is next but government run preschool.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
My kid noticed smoke!
Quick, we must use more of our already wastefully spent public education dollars to enrich “a climate change education consultant”, that is already making 6 figures at public university doing utterly unnecessary “work” so we can properly terrify more children!!!
Carbon, carbon, carbon!!!
We’re doomed
Mr Teach: Catching them as young as possible to brainwash them into the doomsday cult.
Have heard that before, from other cults.
Today’s children, and today’s children’s children must live in the world we ieave them, so of course they deserve to be told the truth. But what is true?
A century ago American children were not taught the science of biological evolution. Environmentalism was largely unknown. Epigenetics unheard of. The extent of the universe.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas, that is, it slows the loss of infrared wavelengths of radiation away from Earth. The 50% increase in atmospheric CO2 has come from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas).
It’s amusing you begin by asking: ” But what is true?” then finish by making absolute assertions about something we are not absolutely sure of.
Not only is there at this time no definitive scientific proof of man made global warming the lies and false claims up till today tend to point to a hoax of huge proportions. The entire MM climate cult has spent (wasted) many years using faulty science, bullshit “consensus” and fraudulent data to create/perpetuate/profit from the entire nonsense.
The predictions fail to come true, the “scientists” keep changing their minds and the entire affair looks like a money making scheme manufactured by a collusion of interested parties in order to pilfer public and private funds. Kinda like Black Lives Matter on steroids.
Sadly, if there is any truth to man made global warming it has become a parody and a non believable farce. Partly because people like you have made it into a religion. Your false gods of climate change, Covid, Russia, Russia, Russia, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, the “insurrection” or your latest that Biden was “as sharp as ever” won’t win us over. And you won’t succeed until you do or take enough power to force us against our will. You almost got there with Biden/Harris/Pelosi/Schumer but missed. You certainly won’t get there by calling us regular Americans deplorables, garbage or uneducated (Always “H’s favorite). You make lousy salesmen but great dictator pretenders.
LGB,
Global warming is real. Human generated CO2 is the most likely cause. (Science is careful in the certainty of its statements).
Atmospheric CO2 has increased. Large amounts of CO2 have been absorbed by the oceans. CO2 does absorb infrared radiation wavelengths. The added CO2 is consistent with fossil fuels as the source. The surface temperature of the Earth continues to increase. The extent and volume of Arctic and Greenland ice continues to decrease.
All anyone can do is to present the evidence; and the evidence is overwhelming.
Well then if the “evidence is overwhelming” you should be able to prove it, Rimjob.
But you can’t. Why?
Because you disregard evidence you don’t like or cannot quantify.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47
Except you didn’t present any evidence. All you did was make statements and assertions. That’s all any of you cultists do on any subject. You make unsupportable assertions then yell “denier” when reasonable people don’t buy it.
We are not “deniers” as much as you would love to smear us as such. What we are is Skeptics and that’s what science is all about.
If your side is going to assert a scientific “truth” that will cost the people their freedom and their treasure you need more than assertions. Trust the science is the most unscientific statement ever. Questioning science is how you do science.
Plymouth Rock was stepped on 404 years ago along the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Massachusetts and it is still not covered in water to this day. No rise in water. Seeing is believing.
LGB,
Which of the following (1-6) do you, as and anti-science cultist, deny? Pick one and we can discuss in detail.
1. Atmospheric CO2 has increased. https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
2. Large amounts of CO2 have been absorbed by the oceans. https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/june/oceans-absorb-emissions
3. CO2 does absorb infrared radiation wavelengths. https://www.meteor.iastate.edu/gccourse/forcing/spectrum.html#:~:text=Carbon%20dioxide%20has%20a%20more,strong%20absorber%20of%20infrared%20radiation.
4.The added CO2 is consistent with fossil fuels as the source. https://gml.noaa.gov/education/isotopes/mixing.html#:~:text=Fossil%20fuels%20add%20CO2,removed%20by%20the%20terrestrial%20biosphere.
5. The surface temperature of the Earth continues to increase. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures
6. The extent and volume of Arctic and Greenland ice continues to decrease. https://nsidc.org/home
The United States has cut CO2 emissions over 30%. Are you less free now? The US economy is the most powerful ever.
LGB,
Let’s do one ‘assertion’ at a time.
1. The surface temperature of the Earth continues to increase.
Do you deny that the Earth is warming?
Almost every self-labeled ‘skeptic’ now admits the Earth is warming. Many deny that they ever questioned it! Anyway, this conclusion is based on temperature databases and two different groups that have calculated temperatures based on satellite detectors since 1979. All show warming. The rate of warming since 1970 has been approximately 0.2 C per decade.
Can we agree that the Earth is warming?
2. Atmospheric CO2 has increased.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide has been measured for decades. Since 1959 measurements have made systematically from Mauna Loa, HI. Since 1959, the CO2 level has increased from 320 ppm to over 420 ppm. Sporadic measurements areound 1900 yielded 274 ppm and 310 ppm in 1936-1938. Scientists base earlier estimates on CO2 in trapped air bubbles from Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets which yielded 280 ppm.
Can we agree that atmospheric CO2 has increased?
Let us help Jeff out with the current thinking on climate. Change is happening. It has been going on for over 20,000 years. It is getting warmer, just as in other cycles before the coming of an ice age. Referring to older text before the current political push to have carbon a factor, there is no consistent reason for the change other that rotational aspects of the earth and influence of the sun. Certainly, no one of significance mentioned that a trace gas could cause climate change. And as to methane, there were 60 million buffalo on the great plains, and they did nothing to the climate. We must constantly remind liberals of the fact that correlation does not mean causation, for that matter, there has been an enormous increase in the number of brown-haired primates on the earth and they could easily be changing the climate if we correlate.
In short, those advocating for global communism, like Jeff, have no idea as to what they are talking about and have not really considered the subject.
davy boy,
What are the changes in the “rotational aspects of the earth and influence of the sun” that have caused the current bout of warming? Actual scientists have been unable to detect the changes.
In short, those advocating for global fascism, like davy boy, have no idea as to what they are talking about and have not really considered the subject.
As said before, several papers show an increase in absorbed shortwave radiation as the alleged cause of the warming.
Loeb 2021, 2024 and Dubal 2021 are several examples of this.
https://x.com/kenneth72712993/status/1842083881157005639?s=12
Apparently some scientists detected some changes or are they reporting science fiction?
That didn’t take you long to whip out your new insult “fascism”. I read nothing there that indicated david7134 was advocating fascism of any kind. Perhaps you have a direct line into his psyche?
Loeb 2021 conclude, “This trend is primarily due to an increase in absorbed solar radiation associated with decreased reflection by clouds and sea-ice and a decrease in outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) due to increases in trace gases and water vapor. These changes combined exceed a positive trend in OLR due to increasing global mean temperatures.”
So reduced sea ice albedo, reduced cloud reflection and increases in ‘trace gases and water vapor’ are contributing to the current bout of warming, right?
LGB,
davy didn’t identify the source of his assertion that changes in the Earth’s orbit were causing the current warming.
davy called me a communist, and I called him a fascist. Fair is fair, right?
Jeff,
Would you learn to read. I did not specifically call you a communist, I said you favored global communism. Fascism and communism are about the same thing. So your assuming they are polar opposite shows an element of stupidity. As to references, look them up, same as I do.
“Recently my 3.5-year-old noticed the smoky air caused by a fire in a nearby park and asked: “Why is the sky fuzzy?”
And in your infinite wisdom you decided to scare the living crap out of your child with your cult mantra instead of actually telling them it’s smoke from a fire? The left wants to restrict our 2A rights, but people like this are allowed to have children?
“according to Kottie Christie-Blick, a climate change education consultant and an instructor”
Bwhhahahahahahahha. Yeah, totally not made up position. Got a good racket going in that people are paying her to figure out how to best scare the bejesus out of little children. These people should be barred from being anywhere near children and if they have children, should be getting monthly check in’s from child services..
Carbon increases occurs after temp increase. So saying there is a correlation is pure ignorance. Carbon in ice bubbles has been shown to not be reliable.