Sentences with phrase «teach climate denial»

[27][28] ALEC has worked closely with the Heartland Institute in its attempts to deny and spin climate change, for example drafting model legislation that would require schools to teach climate denial to children.

Its model Environmental Literacy Improvement Act, adopted in classrooms across the country, might not teach climate denial outright, but it does encourage teachers to give climate skeptics and deniers a voice, in order to provide students with a «balanced» view of the science.

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Recently leaked documents show Heartland is drafting a national science curriculum created by a non-climate scientist database technician, designed to undermine traditional science education and promote climate change denial by teaching school children that there is a scientific controversy when in fact there is not — the controversy is political.

It does not deny climate change or direct educators to teach the denial of climate change.»

«ALEC has also been accused of promoting model policy that advocates for the teaching of «climate denial» in schools.

But the report is also disconcerting, because it suggests that the agents of climate denial have largely succeeded in equating the spread of disinformation with «open debate» — and in convincing educators that to teach the uncontested truth about climate change is to violate the spirit of scientific inquiry.

We can no longer allow the fossil fuel industry to influence what is taught in our classrooms, particularly when climate change denial threatens the integrity of science education on a larger scale.»

Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position.

In 2015, CMD / PRWatch co-launched a website that documents the teaching of climate change denial to legislators at ALEC conferences: ALECClimateChangeDenial.org.