A few weeks back (and in subsequent op-eds) I
introduced the latest student indoctrination effort to fight
global warming, via the Alliance
for Climate Education, which seeks invitations from high
schools to deliver assembly presentations during class time. The
group, which has started out targeting six regions of the country
(the San Francisco
Bay area, Southern California, Houston,
Chicago,
New England, and
Washington, D.C.), presents climate misinformation and lies
(To students: “You’ve lived through the ten hottest years ever
recorded in history”) so as to recruit teens for the cause of
further spreading alarmism.
“We all need to lower our emissions and raise our
voices.”
“In 2009, we’ve inherited a world that’s all about living
large.”
“Did you know that the average American teenager uses 20
football fields just to live?”
“You can’t see that, but what it means is ‘living large’
cranks up the world’s thermostat way too hot.”
“Climate change is real, it is dangerous and it was be
stopped. You didn’t start it, you don’t want it, but you have
to fix it.”
“Don’t discount the power you have as individuals and
collectively.”
Most of the bulleted remarks copycat Contave’s recorded points.
The outcome at Loomis? After giving classroom lectures on the
science of climate change (certainly excluding the lack of upward
change during the last decade), and at the end of Lamm’s evening
presentation, many students immediately signed online ACE’s
“Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels.”
Next up: Grade school global warming warning
songs to the tune of “We Are the World."
UPDATE 4:39 p.m.: Rouwenna also
delivered
at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., with the following
mathematical logic: "The answer is by having each of the 22
million students nationwide install three energy-efficient light
bulbs. Sixty-six million light bulbs equals 500,000 cars—it's
that kind of math that helps any audience see the light in a
world otherwise discouraged by images of a crumbling Polar ice
cap and of bears stranded on ice floes.”
