Oklahoma Legislature: Don’t Teach Climate Change
Click here for reuse options!An Oklahoma House of Representatives committee voted to reject a set of new science standards Monday, in part out of fear that the standards could lead young students to believe in climate change, reports suggest. . . .
“There’s been a lot of criticisms, in some sectors, as to maybe some of the hyperbole — what some consider hyperbole relative to climate change. I know it’s a very very difficult, very controversial subject,” Oklahoma Rep. Mark McCullough said, according to ThinkProgress. “Do you believe that those sections specifically relating to weather and climate particularly at the earlier ages…could potentially be utilized to implicate into some pretty young impressionable minds, a fairly-one sided view as to that controversial subject, a subject that’s very much in dispute among even the academics?”
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8 responses to Oklahoma Legislature: Don’t Teach Climate Change
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fahvel May 17th, 2014 at 02:58
it’s about as controversial as the sun rising in the east – don’t americans actually fear this kind of ignorance -especially when it appears to have been chosen by the people, yuck.
fahvel May 17th, 2014 at 02:58
it’s about as controversial as the sun rising in the east – don’t americans actually fear this kind of ignorance -especially when it appears to have been chosen by the people, yuck.
Carla Akins May 17th, 2014 at 06:50
Oh good grief, don’t give these kids a fighting chance to pull themselves into the 21at century.
Carla Akins May 17th, 2014 at 06:50
Oh good grief, don’t give these kids a fighting chance to pull themselves into the 21at century.
Gatormouth May 19th, 2014 at 18:53
And they have even tried wishing away tornadoes too, I believe. Screaming idiots.
Gatormouth May 19th, 2014 at 18:53
And they have even tried wishing away tornadoes too, I believe. Screaming idiots.
William May 20th, 2014 at 08:54
here is the amazing part of that story is that the national headquarters for tornado research and one of the best meteorology schools in the country is located in Norman Oklahoma, at the university of Oklahoma, so all the House of Representatives would have to do is travel 20 minutes and find out the truth on global climate change!!!!!!!!
William May 20th, 2014 at 08:54
here is the amazing part of that story is that the national headquarters for tornado research and one of the best meteorology schools in the country is located in Norman Oklahoma, at the university of Oklahoma, so all the House of Representatives would have to do is travel 20 minutes and find out the truth on global climate change!!!!!!!!