tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post4760669933139540030..comments2024-03-26T17:03:03.877+00:00Comments on Climate Lessons: To Holt for TEE: transnational energy education, or is it more of 'scare the kids, control the adults'?JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-41472931855436523462011-02-02T17:23:31.126+00:002011-02-02T17:23:31.126+00:00The general idea of such interventions in educatio...The general idea of such interventions in education was explicitly encouraged by the previous government, and still is by the EU, and so it is not unreasonable to expect many schools and educational authorities to want to follow the guidance they may well have received. The argument from authority (e.g. the IPCC says so, DEFRA says so, almost all the MPs said so by voting for the climate bill, and so on). So what can a PTA do in the face of such an establishment? My feeling is that the best we can do is study the details of particular events and materials, and object to the most egregious elements. The general idea of such events is probably unstoppable for quite a while yet - given how widely and deeply fears about CO2 seem to have spread. But nonsenses, and manipulative techniques, such as those of 'An Inconvenient Truth' can still be pointed out. Indeed, a good question for any PTA is whether the letter and the spirit of the legal judgement on that video are being observed where the law applies (in England and Wales), and that may be relevant to these sorts of events if there are unreconstructed Goreists involved in them (useful link: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html)JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-36928668890417457522011-02-02T02:59:23.278+00:002011-02-02T02:59:23.278+00:00Isn't it time these spurious science events st...Isn't it time these spurious science events started to get brought up at PTA meetings?Frugal Dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.com