WV State BOE Member Demands And Gets Mushy Science Standards On Climate - More "Debate" Needed

[hatrack]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At the request of a West Virginia Board of Education member who said he doesn’t believe human-influenced climate change is a “foregone conclusion,” new state science standards on the topic were altered before the state school board adopted them. School officials said the changes are meant to encourage more student debate on the idea that humans’ greenhouse gas emissions are causing a global rise in temperatures — a theory that an overwhelming majority of scientists accepts.

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According to Linger, state Department of Education staff made other changes in response to his concerns before the school board adopted the standards.

Original ninth grade science requirement: “Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.”

Adopted version: “Analyze geoscience data and the predictions made by computer climate models to assess their creditability [sic] for predicting future impacts on the Earth System.”

Original high school elective Environmental Science requirement: “Debate climate changes as it [sic] relates to greenhouse gases, human changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, and relevant laws and treaties.”

Adopted version: “Debate climate changes as it relates to natural forces such as Milankovitch cycles, greenhouse gases, human changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, and relevant laws and treaties.”

“We’re on this global warming binge going on here,” Linger said. “... We need to look at all the theories about it rather than just the human changes in greenhouse gases.”

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http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20141228/GZ01/141229489/1419

[Fred Sanders]

1. Idiots. No matter how they fucking word it students with half a pea for a brain are going to be

swamped with the 99.9% of the real scientific research out there in the, you know "real world", that debunks their Faux News addled pea brains......you can only put facts into a hermetically sealed bottle if you have a totally fascist controlled state....I see no evidence of that being kindled.......

All of the fucking theories have been fucking looked at, the fucking theory of "God's will" was fucking rejected.