International : En Californie, à l'école des ultraco. La Young America's Foundation (YAF) forme la nouvelle génération de militants de la droite radicale américaine. Dans un coin de la pièce tapissée de multiples portraits de Ronald Reagan à cheval, une diapositive montrant les visages déformés par la colère des démocrates Michael Moore, Al Gore et Howard Dean, a provoqué les huées des 120 adolescents présents. Ces membres de la Young America's Foundation sont venus au Reagan Ranch Center de Santa Barbara pour participer à l'une des deux High School Conferences annuelles de l'organisation ultraconservatrice afin, explique Paul Anderson, 15 ans, «de consolider nos valeurs, d'étudier la doctrine de Ronald Reagan, et d'apprendre les méthodes qui nous permettront de faire de nouveaux adeptes».
Des adolescents de 13 à 17 ans, polis et disciplinés Des déclarations incendiaires que les jeunes gens ont accueillies avec des mines tantôt consternées, tantôt outragées. Inquiète, une adolescente demande : «Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Battle over climate science spreads to US schoolrooms - environm. SCHOOLS in three US states - Louisiana, Texas and South Dakota - have been told to teach alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming. The moves appear to be allied to efforts to teach creationism in public schools. Such efforts have in the past been thwarted when courts ruled them unconstitutional, but those advocating the teaching of sound science may find it harder to fight misrepresentations concerning climate change. Last week, South Dakota's state legislature adopted a bill which "urges" schools to take a "balanced approach" to teaching about climate change, because the science is "unresolved" and has been "complicated and prejudiced" by "political and philosophical viewpoints".
When New Scientist asked what these were, the bill's sponsor, Don Kopp, mentioned claims commonly cited in opposition to the idea of human-induced global warming: for example, that any global warming is due to changes in solar activity. What should schools teach about global warming? - Green House - Updated 2010-03-04 1:00 PM As the teaching of climate change is challenged in some U.S. schools, students from Imagine Hope Community Charter School hold up banners calling for a halt to global warming in front of the White House in December. The teaching of climate change is under attack in some U.S. public schools. This week, South Dakota's Legislature passed a resolution calling for the "balanced teaching of global warming.
" "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life," says the resolution, which passed with mostly GOP votes. It also says global warming is "a scientific theory rather than a proven fact" and a variety of "astrological" and other "dynamics" affect weather. In other states, critics of teaching evolution are gaining ground by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both subjects should be taught in public schools, according to a story today in The New York Times.
Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets. Steven Newton: Denying Science, Legislating Reality. Last week, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed HCR 1009, a resolution calling for the "balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota. " HCR 1009 is so egregiously inaccurate, so appalling wrong in its contemptuous dismissal of established science, so mind-numbing in its appeals to long-debunked pseudoscience, that it is hard not to entertain the thought that perhaps it was meant as an elaborate parody.
However, HCR 1009 was not a jest, but rather a serious attempt to influence the science South Dakota students learn. It is the latest volley in a broader assault on science itself. HCR 1009's "balanced teaching" phrase is familiar to veterans of the wars over teaching "creation science" in schools. A Louisiana law called the "Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public Schools Instruction Act" was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1987. Earth's climate has indeed varied greatly over time.