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How climate skeptics are trying to influence 200,000 science teachers

Author:     Charlie Wood
Source:     The Christian Science Monitor
Publication Date:     March 30, 2017
 Link: How climate skeptics are trying to influence 200,000 science teachers
Stephan:   One of the strongest negative trends in American society today is that we have become a post-fact world that has lost its moral bearings. It is an enormous problem particularly in any area where the profits of the corporate rich are in jeopardy, and no where are they more in jeopardy than climate change. As a result people who care nothing for the long term well being of American society or the biosphere itself are pouring millions of dollars into creating "alternative facts" and spreading them, particularly in the education system. Here is one example of the process.

Scientists in Boston demonstrate on behalf of the science of climate change and the need for remediation.
Credit: Steven Senne/AP

If you’re a public school science teacher, you’ve got mail. Or if it hasn’t arrived yet, it’s on the way.

The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, and free markets, has mailed 25,000 copies of its book “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” and an accompanying explanatory DVD to science teachers across the United States. It plans to continue the campaign until all 200,000 K-12 science teachers in the country have a copy.

As the title hints, the organization hopes to convince science teachers that the science of global warming has yet to be settled. Katie Worth described the package in a Frontline story published Tuesday.

Accompanying the materials is a cover letter from Lennie Jarratt, project manager of Heartland’s Center for Transforming Education. He asks teachers to “consider the possibility” that the science is not settled. “If that’s the case, then students […]

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