Links tagged “kids”

Flashback: Kerry Emanuel: GOP skepticism makes him ‘ashamed to be an American’

Boxer:'If we ignore pollution from carbon, we are walking right into a death trap.'

'Their mothers worry about a future world where global warming floods the coasts, makes for ever-worse super-storms, and kills crops with massive droughts.'

'My kids have seen more extreme storms in their short lifetimes than I ever saw when I was a kid growing up.'

Moore: ‘President Obama seems to say it is sufficient to say the ‘science is settled’. It is hollow statement with no content.

On Kids: ‘Change the way our kids are being taught about this subject because if we don’t there will be a whole generation of people who are just blindly following this climate hysteria.’

'The fossil fuel divestment movement is, at best, a misguided endeavor and, at worst, a self-defeating roadblock. The changes being proposed will do little to stop investment in the fossil fuel economy. Severely hampering the campaign is its focus on publicly traded securities such as stocks and bonds — when much of the fossil fuel investment today is taking place on private markets.'

Wyoming science teacher Jim Stith shows An Inconvenient Truth...The teacher is no devotee of the former vice president. "I make sure they watch it on a day I'm gone because I can't stand to listen to him talk," Stith said. And he doesn't teach Gore's conclusions as settled science. After the film, his class watches a movie called The Great Global Warming Swindle. It trots out an array of scientists, politicians, and economists who dispute the idea that climate change is man-made.'

'A powerful conservative coalition opposes any effort to standardize a consensus curriculum, and they've had success in blocking such a standard from taking effect...The end result: a patchwork of climate instruction guidelines that largely leaves teachers to their own devices, facilitating massive disparities in global-warming education from school to school and state to state.'

Excerpts: If one would have asked statistician Caleb Rossiter a decade ago about global warming, he says he would have given the same answer that President Barack Obama offered at a recent commencement address. “He castigated people who don’t believe in climate catastrophe as some sort of major fools,” Rossiter says of the president’s speech, adding he would have agreed with the president – back then. But Rossiter would give a different answer today.

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Over the years, he’s broken a few students’ hearts when they learn of this truth. “I have had students who are very strongly pro-the global warming movement in my classes, of course, because most young people have heard this already,” he said. “And when I have them actually do the study, and take apart an IPCC [International Panel on Climate Change] claim, sometimes they break into tears, and they say ‘I can’t believe this is the only class I’ve ever been in in which anyone has ever told me there is even an issue.’”

'At most, the Clean Power Plan would reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations by a few parts per million by century’s end. What biological difference could that make to babies, when their exhaled breath contains about 40,000 parts CO2 per million?'