Sentences with phrase «teach climate skepticism»

The revelation last month that the Heartland Institute, a libertarian group based in Chicago, is trying to teach climate skepticism in schools has sparked a flurry of criticism and debate over the entry of global warming doubt into the classroom.

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Rather than a bill proposed by a state legislature, in 2009, the Texas School Board passed an amendent calling for the «balanced» teaching of climate change, meaning both science and «skepticism.»

I think it's obvious he was trying to impress NCSE head Eugenie Scott, by making a big splash in his first month as a director of the new NCSE mission, which is to convince the public that the teaching of climate change skepticism or controversy is on par with teaching Creation Science.

That leaves many science educators free to include climate change in courses however they want — by, for instance, teaching the scientific consensus on climate change, or explicitly advocating skepticism as a valid scientific proposition as Heartland does.