Heartland and its funders are not so delusional that they can imagine getting their curriculum adopted on any significant scale (among
climate denialist private schools and home schoolers, sure, but such people are
already not
teaching the science), so its primary purpose is as a tool to make the
teaching of
climate science seem so controversial that it's best to just drop the subject entirely.
January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has
already planted its» Environmental Literacy Improvement Act» - which mandates a «balanced»
teaching of
climate science in K - 12 classrooms - in the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona so far this year.