Global Warming Believers?

Question

Does the fact that the majority of youth in this country believe in Manmade Global Warming point out how screwed up our public schools have become at teaching science?

Answer 1

Public schools are not about education they are about indoctrination.  I have been to my sons school, the science class is like animal house no discipline or structure.  The teacher has no control so what will he really learn?  We have given up intellectual truth for philosophical truth,  AGW is about philosophy and the  data will reflect their philosophy not intellectual at all.   If a PHD in climatology says the data does not lead to the affects the AGW believers claim, he is booed and hissed and alienated.   That's not intellectual that's philosophical that is the problem of the public education monopoly we have. Our society has become to comfortable and unwilling to speak out against this ill conceived agenda.

Answer 2

Schools are doing the best they can. All of academia considers their science in calculators because we can't see the temperatures they teach us.

Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... and see how buildings use energy to create GHG emissions. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... and see how solar radiation is knocking California and others off the electrical grid.

Changes to academia and education is coming to give them sight of temperature

Answer 3

Absolutely!  It is worse than that out of control cult in Texas.  Next thing you know they will be burning witches at the stake again since we are making major decisions and crisis without any evidence whatsoever.

Answer 4

No.  It's the reverse.  The number of deniers shows how poorly educated people are about science.  This is proven fact, as much as anything is.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

No, just the opposite. It shows that there are, thank God, a lot of good science teachers left. I'm just sorry you never met any.

Answer 7

Our public schools do an inadequate job at preparing students, overall, in the field of science.  It's a tough global market out there, and the school system isn't what it could or should be.

That said, the field of study on global climate change has advanced tremendously in the last decade as more and better information has become available.  That teachers and districts have been able to translate this information into curriculum and implement it into a broad multi-disciplinary approach is encouraging, because it allows us to stay at the forefront of a topic that will empower students to compete in many disciplines, and to contribute to finding solutions to the crisis.

I've included a few links that are available to educators to use.  These include programs at some of our most prestigious universities.  I find great comfort in knowing that so many of our best and brightest have been hard at work on this for years.  Although the U.S. may be dragging its feet politically, we are contributing on many fronts.

If this is screwed up .... then I'm all for it.  Otherwise, without education, we're just screwed.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

I take it you come from the USA. Yes, your education system is screwed up. The primary example is your leader who, although a product of one of the best university of the country, cannot speak English, seems largely illiterate and understands nothing of the world. If he did read he may have found the nugget of information that says that one should know something about the other before attacking. As an aside I am saddened that this spineless wimp will never know combat or pay for the lives he has wasted. He will retire, lauded by his sychophants and mostly forgotten by the population of a country that deserves that which it elected. It's stupidity for electing him is being paid for by the young men and women.  The first thing taught in your schools, more by osmosis than anything else, is that the USA is first in the world in everything rather it is the only thing in the world. As for Man made Global Warming the majority of students are right or at least they agree with 99% of the science community. Please note that those scientists that argue against global warming also argued that ciggeret's were harmless. Or they come from a disiplne that has nothing to do with weather or pollution

Answer 10

No.  The fact that there are a ton of kids - in this Answers thing in particular who fail to grasp the basic tenements of science, the scientific method, research, uncertainty principles, etc. and choose instead to get their information from talk radio is a more clear sign that there is something amiss in the good ol' USA.

It's sad... very sad.  Please look up the thousands upon thousands of other questions/debates like this on this forum... and then... please - so I can have hope for the future of this country - pay a visit to your high school science teacher and ask him again a very basic question:  What is science?

You obviously weren't paying attention when he/she covered that topic.