From the New York Times yesterday:
'Chinese colleges were ordered in February to sever all ties with Oxfam, which was accused by the education ministry of having a hidden political agenda.
But other groups are beginning to make some headway. The Jane Goodall Institute has its "Roots and Shoots" youth environmental education program operating in nine schools and clubs in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the British Council has been operating its "Climate Cool, Green Your School" teacher training program for three years now.
The program, which takes the climate change message into Chinese classrooms via training the teachers is going strong with the active support and participation of Chinese officials.
"I am not aware of any other NGO that is able to have the access that we do in China," a British Council spokesman told ClimateWire. "We have very good links with the Chinese government."
Annual workshops run by the Global Action Plan environmental charity on behalf of the British Council take several hundred Chinese secondary school teachers at a time and provide them with a combination of presentations and interactive participation sessions on complex climate issues. The teachers then take the messages and the Western teaching methods back into their schools and their classrooms.'
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/17/17climatewire-british-run-climate-projects-take-root-in-ch-65821.
Hat-tip: http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/
Would that the insight which led to them chucking out Oxfam, were extended asap to those other missionary groups mentioned.
I like the thrust of your post's title: AGW is the new religion, with a system of guilt (carbon footprint) and expiation (recycling, "green" initiatives, etc). How ironic that many of the figures in the "intellectual" wing of the warmers want to destroy religion as we know it.
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