Why are schools teaching global warming to our kids?

yeah i'm in high school right now and i've had to watch that movie with al gore like 4 times. i think they're just trying to make us not pollute the environment and all that gay stuff but i agree lol, its a dumb theory

Letting Liberals teach in public schools is simply state funded child abuse. The PROBLEM isn't teaching Science, Evolution or Global Warming...the PROBLEM is letting LIBERALS teach these subjects. Liberals are committed to teaching a Marxist ideology and EVERYTHING else is secondary. Here is a classic example. Just because most people understand % (aka parts per hundred) better than parts per million, I decided to describe the post-industrial increase in CO2 as 0.01% rather than 100ppm. Across the board Warmist said this number was false, misleading, ignorant, a flat out lie, deceitful, a cheap trick,etc.etc.etc. It was even recommended I take 0.01% my body weight in Cyanide. Got it? Can't do a simple unit conversion. Death to the deniers & climate criminals - & these are the people who want to teach your children. See Climate Science SHOULD be a great place to learn many disciplines of physics as well as computer modeling. BUT if you think the Average Liberal gives a crap about your kids learning actual math, science or God forbid independent thinking - you are sadly mistaken. Your children were born to vote Democrat & everything else comes second. Global Warming Theory should be taught in public schools, just not by Liberals. Liberals should not be allowed to teach in public schools period.

You will find that schools are now the bigest target for dis-information.

A law has been passed to allow schools to teach psuedo-science - Here's the Email from New Scientist -

" On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning – including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.".

More schools are starting to include police or military presence - to get children used to the idea that stop and search is normal, as well as using ID cards to check in and out of school.

It's all engineered from the top.

Plus they will not question freak weather or earthquakes , as they will have been "educated" that these are natural events triggered by natural processes.

However, since the Haarp project, things are not that simple anymore -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3wQU2OTSWA&feature...

Tell a big lie and stick to it is the best chance they have to convince people - then find some research to back it up, and ignore the rest.

Yes... your are probably right about this issue, but I think schools have an obligation to at least present the story to young people.

In the UK, the High Court recently ruled that any school showing Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" movie should issue a disclaimer first, and identify with students a number of areas or statistics in the movie found to be false or misleading by science. We should be encouraging discussion and debate on the issue and not blindly believing "global warming hysteria" as it's become much like a cult religion.

You are right though, Man Made climate change is FAR from being proven and any "so called green" changes we make at this stage could have disasterous effects on our planet, our jobs, our economy, our health and safety (environmental light globes contain toxic mercury) and while there is no evidence the CO2 effects the climate, I think we should all be asking questions and doing our own research on the issue.

Perhaps there is still room for schools to teach kids how to recognize and avoid scams as well.

Choosing not to believe in Global Warming is entirely your decision but you can't pretend that we're not having a devastating impact on the planet. Because of the mess that's been made one of the most important things left that the older generation can do for our future is teach us how to start to improve upon the issues we've been left with. I'm a senior in high school and personally I'm glad that I've learned about it and find it refreshing that schools have begin to offer Environmental Studies courses.

And yes as a whole global warming is a theory but there are definite parts that are fact and many parts that are proven. Proof? I'll leave a source.

I'll begin with the explanation that... I don't know a whole lot of the details about global warming. I know that some wonky things are happening with Mother Nature, but I can't stand here and defend Global Warming.

So, in the event that the "GW theory" is proven, at least our children will be aware, prepared, and have thoughts about the issue. And then, perhaps, if it is disproved, then at least we were keeping our butts covered... if we don't educate them about theories because they 'might' be wrong, then we will be in a grave situation if it really is something to scream about.

I do agree with you... that it is well-funded and hyped. Everyone is 'going green' and the market for those products are HUGE. So, that's a good basis for a scam. There are scams being uncovered, though... called 'green-washing'. There are some products being labeled as 'economic', but they're not.

So, yeah. A lot of the things that people are doing is just shenanigans... but it doesn't exactly mean that GW doesn't exist.

I don't know... but that's a good question. This is a very broad, detailed topic...

:D

Subject: IT IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING, BUT IT IS A SHIFT IN CLIMATE ZONES DUE TO THE DECREASE IN THE EARTH'S OBLIQUITY

> The earth's obliquity Angle decreases by 0.47" each

> year, which changes the focus of the sun's radiation

> on earth, resulting in climate shifts. As the

> obliquity angle decreases, the hemispheres change in

> basic temperature with the south becoming colder and

> the north becoming warmer. When the obliquity angle

> reaches about 22 degrees, it will start to go the

> other way and the north will get colder again and the

> south will become warmer. Obviously, and counter to

> Al Gores unlearned theories, the warming of the

> northern hemisphere cannot be stopped by man. It will

> stop and reverse itself. Then the climate shifts we

> presently experience will be goin the other way. It

> is pure logic applied to astro-physical law.

>

> It has long been recognized that rather than staying

> constant, obliquity varies slowly with time as a

> result of external gravitational influences. The Moon

> and Sun's tidal torques on Earth's ellipticity give

> rise to the familiar 26,000-year astronomical

> precession, while the gravitational pull of other

> planets, primarily Jupiter and Venus, slowly perturbs

> the orientation of the ecliptic plane in space. The

> combined effect observed by Earth dwellers is an

> ~41,000-year oscillation in the obliquity with overall

> amplitude typically of about 2°. This oscillation is

> one of the three Milankovitch cycles that ultimately

> affect our long-term climatic system and serve as the

> pacemaker of ice ages. The present-day obliquity

> happens to be close to the mean value, and we are in

> the middle of a downswing (see figure (1)). In terms

> of real distance on the Earth's surface, one should

> see a slow equatorward shift of the tropics by 14.4 m

> a year-well over 1 km in a century!

Serious deficiencies in education since education was nationalized first under the National Education Board which became the National Education Association and then the Department of Education. Upton Sinclair first documented these problems back in the 20s with his investigative book the Goosestep that documented what was happening. This was followed with more detail in his book the Goslings a few years later. Link to H.L. Mencken review and opinion of these books!

http://www.ralphmag.org/menckenI.html

And for those who would appreciate a wider view the skeptics, skeptic I present the following for the study of the under educated.

http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

And a modern detailed investigation by a concerned teacher as to why he was being prevented from properly educating his students that finally names, names and points out the true facts as to public education in the United States today and why no child is allowed to get ahead if it can be prevented.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.h...

A quote I can not find right now points out that if our current education system had been forced on us by another nation it would be cause for war!

Global climate change in the recent past is a reality, and is likely to continue in the future if changes are not made.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations" via an enhanced greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC, the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.

The overwhelming majority of scientists who study the world's climate agree that global warming is occurring. I think it's important to emphasize that while there may be many scientists who have come out against global warming, most of them are actually specialists in other areas. Scientific support for global warming is overwhelming, and the only reason many non-scientists don't agree with it is because of a perception that "but this winter was really cold" is somehow a viable counter-proof against long-term global climate change.

Actually, you are wrong. Global warming can be proven. Its called greenhouse gasses. And we have know the damaging effect of these gasses for many, many years. Also, if you would take the time to research the subject thoroughly you would see that the global climate has changed. It has steadily increased since the Industrial Revolution. What does industry cause? Greenhouse gasses! It really does not take someone with a lot of brains to see that the effects, while not as dramatic as some make them to be, are real. And the only people who deny it are George Bush's stooges.

For the same reason schools are teaching evolution to kids (despite a lot of people thinking it's not even close to being proven, saying it's just a theory and many thinking it's all an atheistic conspiracy, just like there are people who think global warming isn't proven, is just a theory and is some kind of socialist or whatever conspiracy).

People can believe whatever they want but schools should be teaching the best information we have and the best that we have is that global warming is happening and caused by us.