Videos Denying Climate Science Approved by Florida as State Curriculum

From this article on climate denialism:

Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.

Teachers who use the materials “will not be reprimanded, cannot be pushed back on about it, we are approved on the curriculum”, said Jill Simonian, director of outreach at PragerU Kids, the youth arm of the organization. “More states are following Florida. I’m applauding. This is (a) step in the right direction.”

If your goal is to use propaganda to deliver anti-scientific thinking to impressionable young minds, so as to protect the fossil fuel industries at the expense of baking the planet, I’m impressed. Get to them early, before they become capable of thinking for themselves.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, even the name “Prager University” is a lie.  It’s not a university; it doesn’t confer degrees; it’s not in any way an academic institution.  It’s just another extremist organization on a mission to move America even further to the right.

Re: their spokesperson’s claim that “more states are following Florida,” it’s a foregone conclusion that Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and the other states at the very bottom of the nation’s educational rankings are also rejecting climate science.

But what influence will America’s most intellectually defective regions have on the ultimate outcome? The developed nations of Earth, including most of the United States, have already realized that we will not have an organized civilization on this planet by the end of the 21st Century if we allow this rejection of science to dominate our thinking or our lawmaking.