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Bishop Hill AGW indoctrination becomes obligatory?
Dec 5, 2010 The bigwigs in Cancun appear to have agreed that global warming propaganda will become compulsory in schools worldwide. That appears to be the gist of this story:
The 16th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP16) on Saturday reached its first consensus by approving a proposal on education, training and consciousness as part of efforts to mitigate climate change.
...The proposal commits signatories to promote formal and informal education strategies covering the climate change phenomenon.
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Those who saw "Not Evil Just Wrong" will have seen the terrified, young Northern Irish school children and the artwork they had produced as a result of their indoctrination in global warmism. The drowning puppy motif was there. I believe that the artwork showed mental distress, the result of real child abuse by official diktat in school.
I know three sets of grandparents with grandchildren living in different parts of the country (English Midlands, West Country and Scotland) who are young teenagers. They all tell me that their grandchildren are completely "sold" on the AGW message. When the grandparents try to offer a different viewpoint, they are told that it shows they "don't care". This applies even to one family whose grandchildren are in private education.
One of the power companies offered a kit for children to become "climate cops" and book their elders for infractions against "saving the planet". This is but one step away from encouraging children to shop their parents to the Green Gestapo. From my own family experience, it was very difficult to get the children to switch lights out at all, so there may be a small saving of electricity in this!
A friend, who taught in private schools for many years told me in great detail of how the curriculum was being influenced by the state. So parents were paying a great deal but not getting the independent education they thought their sacrifice had bought. This was before AGW came to the fore. He now teaches abroad.
Eco fascism is at work here.
Eco fascism is at work here.
Agreed
It already is compulsory in schools in Scotland. This is a sample from the official curriculum for excellence:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/weatherandclimatechange/climatechange/climatechangeworld/meltingice.asp
* Temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula are rising faster than almost anywhere else – rising by 3°C since 1951. In 2002, the Larsen-B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula suddenly collapsed and 3250 km² of ice broke off - an area almost twice the size of the Isle of Skye
* Scientists have shown that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected. The melting Greenland ice sheet may be responsible for nearly a quarter of worldwide sea rise over the last 13 years. In August 2010 an ice sheet measuring 260 sq km broke off from the Petermann Glacier. This was the largest separation of ice in nearly 50 years
* Climate scientists predict that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in some summers by the end of the century. (It’s worth noting that sea-ice such as that in the Arctic doesn’t raise sea levels when it melts as this ice is already displacing its own volume)
* Millions of people rely on water from glaciers for fresh drinking water. Water from glaciers feed some of the world's greatest rivers, including the Ganges, Mekong and Yellow Rivers.
More jobs for EcoFascists, and no disguising the brainwashing and political indoctrination
Would this not be in breach of Human Rights Legislation, as championed by the United Nations, the EU etc ?
What is the training manual going to be called? "My Life" or "My little red book" by Al Gore?
If an inconvenient truth can be successfully challenged in UK courts, an IPCC indoctrination manual would put IPCC under cross examination. Lovely!
Frightening, absolutely frightening.
Peter Walsh
There won't be any change in England - this stuff is already happening here.
@ golf charley - Would this not be in breach of Human Rights Legislation, as championed by the United Nations, the EU etc ?
Yes, I am no lawyer but I am sure this could be argued. Article 14 of the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child states "Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion". What they are suggesting in Cancun (and have already implemented in Scotland and Northern Ireland it seems) sounds more like indoctrination than education to me, and hence is contrary to Article 14.
Lapogus,
That only applies to thoughts that are not approved by the EU or UN et al. As Mann Made Global Warming (tm) is an approved thought, there will be no issues here.
Mailman
Unless the 'education' process is effective in China and India to the extent that both countries are persuaded to halt industrialisation in the near future, it is yet more evidence that climate 'policy' is evolving inside a mirrored bubble.
The more teachers I speak to the more I come to understand that they don't "buy" AGW either.
Have no fear, they are planting the seed of doubt in the upcoming generation.
With their WWF lgos on their broen T-shirts, the childeren will sing this song:
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gathered together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea (Gold to the sea)
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
[ADDITIONAL VERSE]
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon says the whisper, arise, arise
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
CAGW is just another scare with the same dynamics. As far as most people are concerned, it's over. Governments and organisations which have invested in it, will attempt to cling to it.
I don't see the COP16 proposal as being anything but another rear-guard action in a war that's lost. Attempting indoctrination with an idea that's being laughed at won't work.
The legacy we'll have from CAGW is the legal framework and the 'investment' in green energy schemes to sweep away, and that will take years.
There are apparently groups of actors going around schools reinforcing the indoctrination. Of course the parents are not told this will be happening. They only know after the event when the kids go home and spill the beans.
Jonathan Drake - your groups of actors are funded by donations people have made to ActionAid in the misguided belief that they are helping save third world children from extreme poverty. Nobody who opposes this brainwashing should give a penny to ActionAid.
I cannot find it but I remember reading of a survey of climatic belief of children at school through to university where the belief in CAGW dropped markedly once at university.
It's like father Christmas, when some of your peers point out the inconvienient discrepancies in your arguments the seed of doutbt grows.
Fortunately, all is not lost.
Just came back from our annual visit to a local college's "holiday" event. One of the prof's (a good guy...really) plays Santa every year, and like recent years, threw out an offhand remark about the North Pole being a bit warm due to Global Warming. One smart alec (around 10 years old I'd say) speaks up and says "isn't that controversial?"
Poor old Professor Santa was speechless. I guess the people he's used to talking to don't usually speak such nonsense. :)
It really was a classic "deer in the headlights look" for a good 15 seconds.
This fits in perfectly with the Leftist view that education is about the implanting of 'correct thought' rather than, as Malcolm Forbes said: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Open minds are a threat to the Leftist's desire for control, which is why such extraordinary efforts have been made to suppress them over the past 40 years in the educational systems of the UK, US and Australia, to name but three.
As the Communists say: "“Free activity is frowned on, as a method arising from a curriculum based on the subjective interests of the pupils, and not directed by the teacher as a planned and conscious progress."
Ideology instead of Science in the 21th century: sad.
The brightest of them will find out sooner and later and will boomerang back on these distortions with extra force.
Take a look at this Scottish Government document (apparently published in December 2009):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/12/08130835/1
Money quote:
"Tourism: With milder winters, we can expect substantially less ski and snow-sport related business"
It's snowing again and I could easily ski (cross-country) in my garden and do a bit of downhill ski down the untreated main road just past my drive.
Equally laughable is the next line:
"Hotter summers are likely to encourage more recreational outdoor physical activities with domestic and overseas tourists in general attracted by Scotland's warmer climate."
We've only had one half decent summer (2003) in the past decade, so again one wonders what do they smoke at Holyrood.
The document concludes with the usual incitement to "raising awareness of climate change on different types of tourism businesses."
And we don't rise and kick this lot out into the (warm and hospitable) North Sea?
In an interview, Rajenda Pachauri stated that it was through the children the message will get across, the children are very wise. We have to work with the children.
Replace 'wise' for malleable, but such is the way of despots. Quite chilling.
Teach your children never to take anything for granted. Seek the origins, the ways and means, the reasons. Teach them to formulate questions. If they are told to be quiet - teach them humility, but to also seek alternative education.
This is a really worrying move. I thought that only well established science was taught in schools. at least below the sixth form. But even then scepticism was always encouraged. The 'scientific method' was always stressed. How can the science behind CAGW be taught without pointing out, for example, that the present decadal hiatus in global mean surface temperature is completely contrary to the AGW hypothesis. And numerous predictions of climate models. Or that the entire 'theory' is based on a completely unverified assumption that the feedback leading to increasing water vapour is always positive. Or that the predictions of rising sea levels and melting ice had been falsified by numerous measurements.How can those responsible for curricula claim that science of AGW is established without reasonable doubt?
As scientifically trained sceptics, we are aware of the increasing proportion of intelligent adults who are dubious, in the least, of CAGW science. Comments on articles and blogs support this on a daily basis. One has only to follow the articles and blogs of James Delingpole and Christopher Brooker to realise this. So it is to be expected that there will be an increasing proportion of sceptical science teachers in our schools. What are they going to do if this stupid and dangerous proposal is accepted?
Plenty more on this here:
Harmless Sky
I've been tidying my office (!) and stumbled on this Reader's offer in the Observer, from July 2007:
"With the prospect of another hot and dry summer, it's time to start collecting precious rainwater now.."
Hot, dry summers, eh? I remember them...
While I find this attempt at indoctrinating children totally reprehensible, there is a glimmer of hope.
In the same way as many teenagers from Christian families turn their back on the faith they've been brought up with, so will these indoctrinated children.
Ideologues always think they can form minds when they start with children. History tells otherwise - provided there is no totalitarian state reinforcing such teachings by such well-known methods as GULAGS.
Oh - and parents and grandparents can reduce this year's Christmas gifts to their indoctrinated children with a certificate of, say, having bought a tree in the Amazon, to combat globull warming. Nothing else.
That should please those children no end,no??
I wouldn't worry on this score. Knowing kids, this will go in one ear and out the other. Treating climate change like bible class will simply fail.
Perhaps they could just lump it in with RE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tomorrow+belongs+to+me+cabaret&aq=1
Tomorrow belongs to me. This is a brilliant song from "Cabaret" Well worth listening to and watching.
@ Len - Perhaps they could just lump it in with RE .
I wish they would - under the 1980 Education (Scotland) Act, schools must inform parents that they have a legal right for their children (<16) to opt out from any religious classes or content if they so wish. (and pupils >=16 can opt out themselves). Sadly few of the schools seem to know or practice this, but my local school will soon be hearing all about it - we just discovered that the RME teacher was effectively indoctrinating my 6 year old with creationism when he was in P1.
Für die Kinder!...
No pressure then
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
The Jesuits were right: "give us the child, and we will give you the man". How well the warmists and their political-class allies have learned this lesson.
Fortunately, as the article quoted includes a phrase describing AGW as a "phenomenon", I now have THAT SONG in my head (Da-DA-di-da-da!) and won't have to worry about global warming for the next hour or so.
Until going-home-time, that is, when the amount of global warming lying over the railway lines of Scotland may prove something of a problem.
I thought I was late to this, but I haven't noticed it elsewhere yet. My 12-year old son regards it as propaganda:
Green Santa