Teachers Indoctrinate Kids about Global Warming

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Published 03/28/2008 - 7:30 a.m. GMT

(PressMediaWire) Los Angeles, CA (March 28, 2008) -- A shocking news report has revealed how public school teachers are indoctrinating kids about global warming, and that's disturbing to Holly Fretwell, natural resources allocation expert and author of The Sky's NOT Falling: Why It's OK To Chill About Global Warming (ISBN 0976726947, Kids Ahead, for ages 8-up, September 2007). Says Fretwell, "Kids are getting a nearful at school about global warming, and too much of that information is misleading or just plain wrong."

Letters sent from a school in Wildomar, CA to the Heartland Institute as reported in The American Chronicle provide a perfect example. Heartland recently sponsored a conference attended by scientists and economists skeptical of the UN's scientifically questionable pronouncements on global warming. Apparently this exercise in free speech was too much for 6th grade teacher Michael Steria. Notes Fretwell, herself a teacher and mother of two, "The kids wrote angry letters to Heartland based on 10 articles they read. It appears that none of those articles dealt with the science of global warming."

Instead, the articles presented far-fetched scenarios as truth. These sixth graders now believe that global warming will kill all living things within ten years, and that organizations such as Heartland are to blame…

Fretwell wrote The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming to provide kids with a balanced view of today's environmental challenges, one based on science,not science fiction. "We don’t have good evidence or good answers for the changing temperatures on earth. We do know they have been changing for hundreds of thousands of years, long before humans played a role." Sky presents the facts and encourages kids to think for themselves.

As an educator, a mom and an optimist, the author of The Sky's Not Falling envisions a world that is wealthier, and so healthier for all. To get there, however, our kids need to become critical thinkers. And as the letters from David A. Brown Middle School demonstrate, too much of what is passing for "truth" when it comes to the issue of global warming is anything but.