Bishop Hill How's that new AGW communication strategy working out for you?
Aug 13, 2011 Climate: other Education A snippet from Damian Thompson's blog at the Telegraph:
This week, I met a 17‑year-old pupil from a girls’ public school that, in the past, has been more famous for turning out Sloaney husband-hunters than for filling its pupils with useless scientific facts. But the stereotype is out of date, it seems. The GCSE syllabus ranges far and wide, taking in the physics, chemistry, biology, geopolitics, economics and ethics of climate change. In English lessons, girls “debate” (ie, heartily endorse) the proposition that global warming will kill us all. And guess what topic has been chosen for French conversation?
But parents shouldn’t worry that their girls will turn into eco-loons. “Honestly,” says my informant, “we’re all, like, sooo bored with climate change. I can’t wait to leave school to escape.”
Reader Comments (53)
It's always sick to use propaganda on children. But it also illustrates how stoopid the alarmists are.
They really believe that they can brainwash a new generation and just sit and wait for the older generations to die off. They haven't realised that the new generation becomes the older generation. The idealistic and gullible youngsters somehow turn into realistic and pragmatic middle-aged people by a secret process called "ageing".
A bit late but I just happened on this and it seems relevant:
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/campaign/schools/getcreative_en.htm
from:
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/campaign/index.htm
Not sure how up to date it is though as the last event entry is 4 February 09 with a reference to the Climate Broadcater's Network. Interesting to read the entry from the BBC team at the time:
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/campaign/news/list_news_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/networks/cbn-e/doc/CBN-E_Activities.pdf
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