If the curriculum is alarmist, a pupil who questions it may lose marks, and a teacher who questions it may lose their job. I face neither of those risks, and I hope that somewhere there are teachers and schools where that is also the case. There may be opportunities in most schools through debating societies and suchlike to share radical views about climate, radical only because the establishment position is so dogmatic, loaded, and anti-scientific. But the 'radical' view really ought to be the ordinary, unremarkable one: climate varies, some of the variations give us severe problems on various space and time scales, our forecasting ability for climate is very modest, our computer models of it are laughable in the face of great complexity, and our observations of temperatures, ice, precipitation, hurricanes, sea levels, etc etc show nothing at all extraordinary has been happening in recent times to what we see and experience.
The cartoons by Josh on climate have both great charm, and great penetration into some of the issues and personalities involved, and could enhance discussions and presentations on climate in our schools. Here are two recent ones:
For many more, and for background on each, see:
http://cartoonsbyjosh.com/
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