Join Maggie Fox, President and CEO of The Climate Reality Project as she shares with us a recently uncovered plan by the Heartland Institute to try to get “climate change denial” taught in our schools! Watch this great Climate Reality video with the kids in your life. Sign the PETITION as a family! Show your kids that we CAN help change the world by speaking out, taking a stand to support REALITY and challenging untruths! (The following post and video are “re-posted” with permission from The Climate Reality Project.)
Do you think schools should teach our children that climate change isn’t real?
Of course not. But the Heartland Institute, an organization well-known for giving a microphone to climate science deniers, now wants to bring this false message into America’s classrooms.
As their President and CEO just admitted, they are writing a “global warming curriculum” that would say climate science isn’t settled. They’d like our teachers to claim we just don’t know if humans are changing our climate.
This plan is outrageous on its face. As you well know, the science behind climate change is not controversial — it is a reality. Scientists know that climate change is happening, and we are beginning to see the impacts with our own eyes. It would be the height of irresponsibility to urge our schools to teach something known to be untrue.
As its own budget documents reveal, the Heartland Institute is funded by oil and coal companies with a financial interest in denying climate science. But I think you’ll agree this industry-funded propaganda has no place in our schools.
Fortunately, one brave high school student is asking the Heartland Institute to stop. Corey Husic is writing to the group to say there is no place for a climate denial curriculum. He is asking that Heartland immediately “cease and desist” its plan to bring climate denial into our schools. And today, I invite you to sign this petition as well.
It’s time we move on from this false debate over climate science and engage in a much more fruitful and educational discussion over what we can do to solve the climate crisis.
We’ve created a short video to help you learn more about this urgent issue. I encourage you watch this video now, and sign the petition to keep climate reality in America’s science classrooms.
Maggie Fox, President and CEO of The Climate Reality Project
greenmomster.orgKudos to Corey for his work in stopping the climate denial curriculum. What should be taught in our schools is the effect of CO2 on our atmosphere AND our oceans. See the new video on the topic: http://www.greenmomster.org/2012/03/other-co2-problem.html.
Great video and thanks for pointing out the impacts of rising CO2 on our oceans and our food chain…so many impacts..so important to break it down so we can understand the consequences and what’s in the pipeline for us..thanks!