Unfortunately, some misuse science. Some of their intentions, are far from benevolent. They see science as a mechanism for political power and control. There is great danger from those who would use science for political control over us.

How do they do this? They instill, and then continuously magnify, fear. Fear is the most effective instrument of totalitarian control.

Chet Richards, physicist,

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/science_in_an_age_of_fear.html

Climate-books: aimed at children or teachers

Last updated: 09 June 2020

09 June 2020.  GCSE Geography Revision Guide.  Paul Homewood is not impressed: 'I came across this GCSE revision guide a while ago, since when it has gathered dust!
Having now had a chance to read it, I was taken aback by the section on climate change.
The whole chapter reads as little more than a propaganda sheet, filled with inaccuracies, half truths, emotive slogans, subliminal messages and a total lack of historical perspective.'
'I realise that this particular guide was last published in 2015, and is specific to Welsh schools. But I very much doubt whether the current geography syllabus is in any meaningful way much different.
The guide was, by the way, originally published in 2010, so at the very least there is a large chunk of young impressionable minds, which have been brainwashed.
It is little wonder that the younger generation have become so paranoid about climate change.'


 01 Feb 2020.  An excellent little book for children
'Don't Be Afraid of Climate Change'

 On Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Be-Afraid-Climate-Change/dp/B084B1BLWC

This is a very encouraging development.  A very accessible book that undermines a whole list of would-be scares, and provides links to further reading on each.

More details here:   https://climatelessons.blogspot.com/2020/02/children-listen-to-this-dont-be-afraid.html

 12 Sep 2019.  Here's a handy list of books, and an insight into types of books, that you do not want children to be exposed to until they are informed enough to laugh at them:
https://theoutline.com/post/7920/climate-change-childrens-books?zd=3&zi=mqtofpsm
Hat-tip: Climate Depot)

It is all about brainwashing the kids in order to put pressure on their parents:

'Themes of protest and community organizing continually crop up as solutions to the climate problems in many of these texts. “For older kids, and middle school, the leap from we can all do our part no matter how small to civic engagement is really one that I hope is there,” Okimoto told The Outline. “That’s how they’re going to get involved and get leaders who change the system.” All of these strategies are interconnected: small individual acts will hopefully lead children to be more environmentally conscious, which then increases pressure on parents to act or seek out information, which eventually gives way to a civically engaged teen holding their elected officials accountable.'

 An increase in such books attributed to a Greta effect is asserted here:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/11/greta-thunberg-leads-to-boom-in-books-aimed-at-empowering-children-to-save-planet

 Not a shred of evidence given or required that there is any justification at all for this child abuse.  

 11 Sep 2019.  Susan Crockford has recently posted:

'Polar bear books for kids and young adults are the perfect antidote for climate anxiety'

They would surely help Greta, and no doubt many many more youngsters.  
20 June 2019.  'Rising Seas'.  Another book set on indoctrinating the young.  So many people seem to feel they can just parrot the junk science, the ill-founded scares, and hit youngsters with their efforts.  Neither science, nor compassion, nor common sense seems present in these authors.


 'What do you say to an eight-year-old who comes home with this book?
If people knew and understood the power of the state in controlling information, they would be skeptical of what they are being told about changes in climate.'
Joe Bastardi draws attention to this book and gives some dire examples of its contents.

 09 June 2018.   The unsatisfactory basis for climate alarmism, and the harmful effect such alarmism can have on children and other vulnerable groups, seems to pass some people completely by.  Here is a recent example of someone who sees 'eco-warriors' as a good thing, despite their abysmal track record of not only failed prophesy but also moral turpitude: https://theconversation.com/childrens-books-can-do-more-to-inspire-the-new-generation-of-earth-warriors-97580
The piece is essentially about brainwashing the young by means of storybooks.  Another call for turning them into 'little political activists'.
Hat-tip: WUWT post by Eric Worrall.  It begins with 'h/t Willie Soon – What do climate activists do if they can’t convince adults to support their hardline green policies?' and ends with 'As a father I’m rather glad about the shortage of “dystopian” children’s stories. Young children experience enough nightmares without deliberately force feeding them nasty apocalyptic visions of how painful, empty and pointless their future will be.'
See the '2018 Canada' entry below for another example of someone wanting to push climate alarm propaganda at children via fiction.  At best such folks are simple victims of the climate alarmism we have all been exposed to for decades.  At worst they are reprehensible.

 19 March 2016.  I recently tried without success to interest someone in reviewing schoolbooks on climate matters (see comment on Robert Christopher's discussion thread on Bishop Hill here).  My basic argument was this: 'It seems to me that there will be many years of remedial, even pastoral, work to be done to help all those who are now in schools, as teachers or pupils, and those who have been through them over the last 20 years or so. The finding, or encouraging, of decent textbooks on climate would be surely be helpful for this.'  It struck me that it would be handy to update links to children's books on climate change in case that would help anyone who is interested in doing some of this work.  Here are a few:

In The Guardian: http:// www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/apr/20/which-books-deal-with-climate-change-for-younger-children

On the Good Reads site:  http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/28424.Best_Children_s_Books_About_Climate_Change

Here's one by a CO2 Alarm victim: http://www.ghgonline.org/yourplanet.htm

From someone posting on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Childrens-Books-on-Climate-Change/lm/RQLTEXGRCU8XV

From another CO2 victim turned climate campaigner : http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/11/25/books-on-climate-change/

And here is a pathway to some textbooks that actually sound quite promising:  http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/12/textbooks_out_of_step_with_scientists_on_climate_change.html

And to some that don't: http://climatechangeeducation.org/science/books.html


02 June 2015. Books on science for children.  Are there any good modern ones?  Briggs suggests 'Good news is that the fundamentals of science have not changed much for the last 100 years, at least with respect to what kids should learn. That means books written before, say, the mid 1960s, still have content not polluted by ideology. '

2014.  Part of the explanation for the remarkable spread of climate alarmism into schools may be due to the abundance of books taking the alarmist position as being beyond much doubt - an abundance perhaps also due in part to malevolent authors attracted by the idea of writing sensationalist material.  I plan to compile lists of climate related books, or sections of books, on climate for children, and to supplement this with critical reviews of them whenever time or existing reviews are found.

(1) Hat-tip:'justmeint', who commented on a post here in June (29/6/11) and gave a link to a post by an Art Horn, an extract of which follows.
'I worked as an on air meteorologist for 25 years, mostly with NBC stations. Now I am self-employed. Recently I was presenting my program about how weather works to a middle school. During a break between groups I had a chance to look around the library where I was presenting my program. I thought it would be interesting and revealing to see what kind of books about energy and climate the library was providing to the students. It didn’t take long to find the answer.'

He goes on to conclude:
'The point is that this is another of an apparently endless series of books made for middle school students that condemns how we live and how we make energy. If this one school library is a microcosm of other school libraries around the country than these same messages are being pounded into the heads of our youth day after day, year after year with virtually no opinion from anyone other than environmentally driven eco-authors whose mission is to re-invent energy production with no idea of how to do it. By the time these students are old enough to question the assumptions and errors in these books it might be too late to reverse the direction the radical environmental movement has taken us.'

Here, thanks to another very helpful correspondent in an email today, is a start:


(2) Here is a list of climate books aimed at children:
http://www.grinningplanet.com/environmental-books/global-warming-books.htm#children
(3) Here is another such list:
http://globalwarmingkids.net/books/index.html

(4) The UK's Royal Meteorological Society does seem to have gone over to the dark, the alarmist side of the climate controversy, and the gushing and uncritical nature of these book reviews when climate alarmism is referred to is by itself evidence of that: http://www.metlink.org/weather-climate-resources-teenagers/book-reviews.html I'd be interested in publishing more objective views of these books here.


(5) Open Source books.  The results of a search on a site for 'Open Education Resources' led to some 800 or more links, some of which are to online texts: http://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=climate+change  The search results can be stratified by specifying educational level, e.g. 'high school'

(6) Another list of books on climate being recommended for children.  This time from a library in Wisconsin:
http://aqua.wisc.edu/waterlibrary/Default.aspx?tabid=339
BOOKS AND/OR REVIEWS by Year of Publication

#1990 


 A partial review of '50 Simple Things' is included in the this article: 'In 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, kids are told, “When your parents were kids, hardly anyone ever worried about saving the environment. . . . They developed some bad habits. They made as much garbage as they wanted; they wasted energy whenever they wanted; they used up the Earth’s treasures, just for fun.”
This treatment disparages parents; others suggest that parents are stupid. In a discussion of the ozone issue, children are told, “We don’t think adults would keep on making these [CFC] gases if they realized they were harming all life on Earth.”
Should the environment be a wedge between parents and children? And should children be taught that people carrying out productive activities are evil?'
 http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/ecokids-new-automatons-on-the-block#axzz2SmwDsjgv

#1995 United States
'A quick glance at the materials aimed at children and their educators reveals one very apparent trend: a call to activism. The bestseller 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save the Earth, published by The EarthWorks Group, urges kids to write to their U.S. Senators, the President, and world leaders, or join an environmental group. Suggested groups include the Natural Resources Defense Council, famous for perpetuating hysteria over Alar-treated apples in the late 1980s, and Greenpeace, an organization that even its admirers say built its reputation on publicity stunts and playing “fast and loose” with scientific facts.

The textbook Your Health, published by Prentice-Hall, encourages children to “consider joining an environmental group.” Its suggestions for further contacts include Greenpeace, Zero Population Growth, Planned Parenthood, and Earth First! (a group that has solicited terminally ill people to undertake life-threatening eco-terrorist activities). And Kid Heroes of the Environment, another publication of The EarthWorks Group, praises children for conducting petition drives, organizing letter-writing campaigns to political leaders, and boycotting businesses.
The Alley Foundation, a “non-political, non-profit organization dedicated to the environmental education of our youth,” distributes a book called “Cry Out.” It tells the children, “Unless you take action NOW, the beautiful forests where you go hiking, the beaches where you swim in clean water, the clear morning when you take a breath of sweet-smelling air could all become things of the past.”
What’s so wrong about these calls to activism? Nothing, really, if children are taught solid facts about environmental science and if they understand the trade-offs involved in adopting alternative courses of action. Yet this hardly seems the case. Children are often taught by people lacking training in environmental subjects.
Consider that the United Nations Environment Programme markets its publication, “Environmental Education for Our Common Future,” to teachers “whatever subject they teach.”[1] Or that school systems across the nation, often at the requirement of government mandates, are incorporating environmental education into traditional subjects such as mathematics, history, languages, and civics. Children are learning from teachers who can barely distinguish myth from fact in the environmental arena.'
Source:  http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/ecokids-new-automatons-on-the-block/comment-page-1/#comment-52105

#1995 USA.  This article mentions reviewing nearly 100 school textbooks, and provides comments on some of them. 'A consistent pattern of one-sided presentations of environmental issues is shown by our review of nearly 100 sixth-through- tenth grade textbooks in the areas of science, health, geography, government, and history.'  http://fee.org/freeman/detail/environmental-education-turning-kids-into-political-activists

#1996 United States 'Facts, Not Fear'
#1999 Canada 'Facts, Not Fear'
 A very well constructed book aimed at helping parents and teachers deal with the narrowly-presented alarmist views on fashionable eco-topics, including climate change. The more technical chapters have been reviewed by subject matter experts listed in an appendix.  Suggestions for things to discuss, and to do, with your children are given, along with well-presented counter-arguments.  A major theme of the book is that while some school textbooks contain errors on eco-topics, their main problem is their failure to include information on studies which defuse the simple-minded alarmism so valued by zealots everywhere.


Chapter 1: http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/facts_not_fear/04_chapter1.html
Chapter 2: http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/facts_not_fear/05_chapter2.html
Chapter 3: http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/facts_not_fear/06_chapter3.html


#2006 United Nations 'Tore and the Town on Thin Ice'
 'A new United Nations children’s book promotes fears of catastrophic manmade global warming – and is replete with exaggerations and inaccuracies, according to a U.S. Senate report.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=265811
The book, "Tore and the Town on Thin Ice,” is published by the United Nations Environment Programme and blames "rich countries” for creating a climate catastrophe.' A pdf of it is downloadable here:  http://www.unep.org/PDF/TORE.pdf
There is also a scathing 2013 review of this book here: http://www.thefreepressonline.co.uk/news/1/378.htm


#2007 'How to Turn Your Parents Green', tangent books.
Thomas Sowell alerted us to such books way back in 1992, when he published ‘Inside American Education’.  Chapter 3 is about Classroom Brainwashing.  He lists techniques used, and they can be found, individually or even all at once in much of the material being produced for children on climate.  Extracts from that chapter are shown in bold, and relevant extracts from ’How to Turn Your Parents Green’ are shown in italics:

"A variety of programs used in classrooms across the country not only share the general goals of brainwashing - that it, changing fundamental attitudes, values, and belief by psychological-conditioning methods - but also use classic brainwashing techniques developed in totalitarian countries:

1. Emotional stress, shock, or de-sensitization, to break down both intellectual and emotional resistance
‘The weather’s gone weird.  The polar bears are anxious. Ghastly Global Warming is here.’

2. Isolation, whether physical or emotional, from familiar sources of emotional support in resistance

For children, these familiar sources are usually their parents.  Russell’s book sees them as stupid, selfish, ignorant people who are to be punished rather than seen as a source of advice or support:

‘Only you can nag, pester, bug, torment, and punish the people who are merrily wrecking your world …Only you can make the Groans behave because only you can make their lives a misery if they don’t.  We’ll help you draw up a Glorious Green Charter for them sign, and show you how to punish them – oh yes – if they don’t change their Grumbelicious ways.  Don’t be an Eco-Worrier, be an Eco-Warrior. And turn your parents Green.’

3. Cross-examining pre-existing values, often by manipulating peer pressure
‘The main aim of a Groan’s life is to exploit as much of the planet as possible before someone else does.  Even before Ghastly Global Warming, this philosophy was making the world a sadder place.  Fiendish Fertilizers and Pestilential Pesticides have killed offr wildflowers, birs, bees and hedgehogs.  Our rivers and seas are horribly polluted.  Most of us live surrounded by the noise, dirt, and danger of traffic.  Groans think all this is fine and natural.  So what if the hedgehog becomes extinct? So what if climate change kills millions of people?  So what if  kids have nowhere to play because there are too many cars?  People die, they say with a shrug.  Species disappear.  Kids can play computer games.’

This is course is a parody of ‘pre-existing values’ but it serves the same purpose.

4. Stripping the individual of normal defenses, such as reserve, dignity, a sense of privacy, or the ability to decline to participate
Any child following the prescriptions of the book, would indeed be stripped of reserve, dignity and a sense of privacy.  They are being encouraged to be interfering busybodies in the lives of others, as well as of their own.  There is no option but to participate or else bad things will happen:
‘Of course, it isn’t easy being Green.  We’re only human, after all. But if you follow Groan philosophy you’ll be unhappy, stressed, overweight and, quite possibly, under water.’

5. Rewarding acceptance of the new attitudes, values, and beliefs - a reward which can be simply release from the pressures inflicted on those who resist, or may take other symbolic or tangible form."
Mercifully, there seem to be no rewards on offer, but most children taken in by this trashy book are liable to get a sense of pressure to conform to its numerous prescriptions.

#2007 A Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.  From an Amazon.com review: "Amongst other errors, the graph in this book showing the link between global temperature and Co2, has the lines mislabelled. The correct graph (and you can find it using their own references in the back of the book) shows CO2 increases lagging temperature by some 600 years. As the lines in the graph in this book are wrongly labelled, it looks like temperature rises follow CO2 increases, and the text supports this point." (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Earth-Guide-Global-Warming/dp/0439024943)
The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming 

Tom Nelson quotes a few sentences from the book which his son brought home in 4th grade (USA):
http://tomnelson.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/few-notes-from-global-warming-hoax-book.html


As if helping bring the shoddy but slick 'An Inconvenient Truth' to the world was not bad enough, David produces book with an even more blatant con in it: the mislabelled chart.  Chapter and verse on this here: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/other/david_book.pdf


#2007 Macmillan Dictionary for Children, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.  It is well-
established that greenhouses do not rely on the 'trapping' of infra-red radiation in order to become hot.  The relatively high temperatures inside greenhouses are almost entirely due to the prevention or the reduction of mixing of the air inside with the air outside.  Yet look at what children will read in this dictionary: 'This effect reduces the amount of heat escaping into space, as the glass in a greenhouse stops heat escaping into the air.'

First of all, the amount of heat escaping into space remains equal to the amount of heat arriving from the sun on average from year to year. The warming of air near the surface thanks to absorption of infra-red from the ground merely means that the average height at which the balancing radiative temperature of the earth is found is a little higher.than otherwise.  Secondly, the glass keeps a greenhouse warm by reducing mixing with cooler air outside it.  Greenhouse gases do no such thing in the atmosphere.  If anything, they increase mixing by helping initiate, and in water's case  sustain, convection cells which amongst other effects, increase mixing with the surrounding air.



#2008 United States.  This book looks promising:

Deb & Seby's Real Deal on Global Warming





http://www.amazon.com/Sebys-Real-Global-Warming-ebook/dp/B006D7EGN6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top












#2008 'Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate' by Laurence Pringle.  Amazon review comment 'The purpose of this book is to scare children about global warming. On the back cover: "Global Warming Can Lead to Global Disaster" is not intended to do anything else. Author Pringle would have been equally accurate to write: "Global Cooling Can Lead to Global Disaster".

#2009 USA A short article in the WSJ comments on some eco-fiction for children:
'Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it's almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long. They get it at school, where recycling now competes with tolerance as man's highest virtue. They get it in peppy "go green" messages online, on television and in magazines.
And increasingly, the eco-message is seeping into the pages of novels that don't, on their face, necessarily seem to be about environmentalism at all. Thus children who might like to escape into a good book are now likely to find themselves pursued into that imaginative realm by didactic adults fixated on passing along endless tellurian warnings.'

#2010 United States 
 See: http://www.greenteacher.com/taccintro.html

 This absurd remark in the sample page is not encouraging:
'Yet climate change is a phenomenon with which we humans have little experience, at least in historic times,'
I would reword that to 'climate change is a phenomenon with which we humans have a great deal of experience throughout our recorded history.  Our geologists and others have found evidence of climate change throughout the history of the atmosphere itself.'




#2011 United States
Recalled from Michigan schools after criticism by a farmers' organisation.

Farm Bureau upset that science kit for students contains left-wing book with misinformation about modern farming







#2011 Australia 'The Earth In Peril' by Lesley MacFadzean.
Described in 2015 by one reviewer, John Maclean,  as 'relentless propaganda without a shred of evidence to support it'.  It was issued to his 7 year old grandson from a school library in 2014.

 See blog comment #16 at this post on Jo Nova:  http://joannenova.com.au/2015/07/high-pressure-propaganda-greens-using-children-to-write-activist-letters-in-school/



#2011 United States  "The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming"
Tom Nelson (http://tomnelson.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/few-notes-from-global-warming-hoax-book.html ) has spotted some troubling text:

A few notes from a global warming hoax book at our local elementary school library

My fourth-grade son just brought home Laurie David's 2007 global warming propaganda book for kids "The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming".
It was a recommended book at his school library.
Notes:
Page 17: It says "CO2 and Temperature. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. Milk and cookies. Macaroni and cheese. You get the picture."
Page 19: "If the polar ice caps could speak, they'd sound just like the Wicked Witch of the West".
Page 37: "In the year 2000, there were more natural disasters than in any other single year up to that time..."
Page 47: "We must all make sure there is never a place called Global Warming National Park".
Page 55: "...scientists are predicting that [polar bears] will be extinct within 100 years".
Page 99: "Become a Global Warming Activist"

 Note added 28 April 2017.  The author of this silly book, Laurie David. is unhinged:  http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/04/28/climate-activist-laurie-david-quits-retirement-after-trump-win-after-the-election-it-took-me-two-weeks-to-just-stop-crying/

#2011 UNEP: a selection of downloadable pamphlets for children:
http://www.scribd.com/collections/2592523/Childrens-series
e.g.
 'Ting and the Possible Futures (French)
This science fiction story brings to life the frightening but real possibilities of an out-of-control climate crisis. It also introduces the positive, creative and very doable steps we can all take to save our climate, and in so doing build a greener, more humane and beautiful future. Ting and her three best friends have worked all year on a project for the science fair. It's a Possible Futures Transporter a time machine that carries you to different scenarios in the same place and time. The first future Ting explores is one of drought, submerged seaside cities, and refugee shantytowns.


#2011 'The Magic School Bus'  


'A few days ago the Cornwall Alliance received an email from a Kindergarten teacher at a Christian school. She had been surprised when her school principal told her not to use “The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge,” a book and Webcast video from Scholastic.com designed for Kindergartners through third graders, to acquaint them with the serious danger of global warming caused by burning fossil fuels and how we all can “go Green” to “help save the planet” by resorting to wind, solar, and other alternative energy sources.' http://www.cornwallalliance.org/blog/item/global-warming-propaganda-from-scholastic.com-targets-young-children-w
#2011 'The Magic School Bus' 'When it comes to fear tactics and the not-so-veiled political agenda of today’s liberal environmentalists, we only have to look to educational propaganda such as that forwarded by Scholastic.com and their book/video, “The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge” to see that propagandizing children is still taking place.
The Magic School Bus educational set and its distribution company were first brought to my attention by E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Founder and National Spokesman of the Cornwall Alliance. His assessment of the Magic School Bus Climate Challenge book/video was that it was a combination of an unwarranted guilt trip and unsubstantiated fear mongering.'
http://salinapost.com/2011/08/04/man-made-global-warming-convert-the-children-change-the-world/
Also here: http://digitaljournal.com/blog/12542 


#2011 United States Books reviewed by Art Horn:
“Are we running out of energy?” by Christiane Dorion and published by Arcturus books.
“A Green World?” by Nicola Baird published by Franklin Watts, a division of Grolier publishing
“Natural Disasters” by Claire Watts and Trevor Day published by DK publishing
“Water For Life” by Valerie Bodden published by Creative Education.
None of them deserve a place in schools.  See: http://justmeint.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/are-we-polluting-our-childrens-minds/

 #2012 United States  The Magic School Bus is still running along: http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_1dacf449-82e6-5c63-967e-ae572c8af66f.html
'Ms. Frizzle and her class took the audience in the Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse on a whirlwind educational field trip to explore the mysteries of global warming Sunday afternoon.
The show featured an all new adventure for “the Friz” and her class. After they discovered the textbook they had used to plan their play on global climate was outdated, the class boarded the Magic School Bus. They journeyed to the North Pole and the Equator – and even shrunk down to microscopic size in order to understand the cause and effect of global warming.
Patricia Luban, a resident of Lafayette, had brought her two daughters to the show and found educational value in its content.'


#2012 United States  Here's an interesting theory: 'So maybe kids aren't really disconnected from nature as much as they really just want to read better books featuring the natural environment that aren't constantly trying to teach them a lesson about recycling or climate change.' 
Source: http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/study-new-kids-books-lack-connection-to-nature

#2012 Australia 'Global Explorations'
  Thinly disguised propaganda
Andrew Bolt reveals yet another shocking example of deeply offensive and highly inappropriate political propaganda masquerading as "science" in a New South Wales geography text for Year 8. The full text is reproduced here as I think it is important that is is made as widely available as possible.
How do you feel knowing that your children are being indoctrinated in this manner when they go to school?

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/02/disgraceful-climate-indoctrination-in-australian-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-15721




#2012 Seen in an Abu Dhabi airport bookshop.  


The cover alone condemns the book as junk.





















#2012 'Our House is Round: A Kid’s Book About Why Protecting Our Earth Matters' by Yolanda Kondonassis and illustrated by Joan Brush

Extract: 'A key element of the Green’s endless indoctrination schemes has been to reach children, the most vulnerable among us and for this reason our schools have been turned into Green prisons where their version of the Earth is pumped into the minds of children here and around the world.  

Their primary teaching tool is fear. Fear that the oceans will rise and wipe out entire cities. Fear that the rainforests are disappearing. Fear that entire species are being destroyed by the hand of man. Fear that the use of any kind of fuel, coal, natural gas, and oil is despoiling the planet.
I have reviewed books for some fifty years at this point and I could not put a number on the books for children that hammer home these and other terrifying themes. One crossed my desk the other day, “Our House is Round: A Kid’s Book About Why Protecting Our Earth Matters” by Yolanda Kondonassis and illustrated by Joan Brush. It has been called “the perfect children’s introduction to environmental issues” by Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund.
The author is not a biologist, a geologist, a meteorologist, or any other kind of scientist. She is a Grammy-nominated classical harpist. A harpist!
“Our Earth has gotten messy. What should we do?” she asks her young reader. What does she mean by “messy”? Her answer is that “cars, trucks, and factories make pollution, a kind of dirty gas or liquid that goes out into the air and into our rivers, lakes, and oceans.” This book is written for children age five to nine!
Imagine now what it must be like to be that age and be told that the air is polluted and the water is as well. This verges on child abuse.
“Pollution goes up into the sky and forms a blanket of gas that holds heat within Earth’s atmosphere. That makes our whole Earth warmer and leads to unclean air for breathing, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and extreme weather patterns. Scientists call this warming of our Earth’s temperature CLIMATE CHANGE.”
It is a LIE. The Earth has been cooling for fifteen years.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a gas as vital to all life on Earth as oxygen is to the life of living creatures. Without it, not a single blade of grass or tree or the vegetation we call “crops” would not grow. Livestock and wildlife depend on that vegetation. If you are age five to nine, you likely are unaware of this.
This book and all the others that incorporate these lies are a form of psychological terror.
The same week I received “Our House is Round”, I also received “The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea” and “Earth-Friendly Buildings, Bridges, and More.” You could stack all the environmentally-themed children’s books I’ve seen and it would reach up several stories.
They are a corruption of geophysical and biological science. They have nothing to do with “saving the planet” and everything to do with distorting children’s understanding of the real world.
It does not matter that the Ms. Kondonassis thinks she is serving humanity. The great lie of communism is that it will create a collectivist utopia. In reality it has always depended on terror to maintain itself and it has failed wherever it has been tried. Environmentalism is its latest permutation.'


#2012 EU. A list of booklets aimed at children by the EU (!): http://europa.eu/teachers-corner/0_9/index_en.htm    
This illustration is from one on climate, called 'What Scorching Weather', published in 2005 and aimed at 0 to 9 year olds.  I note they stop at 0.  It could be worse, they could go back -9 months and target the child in the womb.




#2012 UK  'How the World Works', a children's book published in 2010.  Written by an ex-WWF employee so one would expect malice, scaremongering, loaded perspectives, and diatribes against humanity.  It would seem they are all there.

  A reviewer at Australian Climate Madness did not care for it at all:
'And as you can see from the images, it's all dressed up in cheerful, kid-friendly artwork, with plenty of pull tabs and pop-ups so the message is cleverly concealed. Apart from the global warming propaganda, almost every page admonishes the reader and humanity in general for the evil it has done to the planet.
Because it's a kids book, and the message must be straightforward, there's no room for subtlety or shades of grey - it's a blunt assessment that humanity is damaging the planet and we must change our ways, or else.
Gone are the days when children could grow up enjoying the wonders of the planet and the universe for their own sakes without being badgered or berated. Now even pop-up books designed for the very youngest in our society are packed with enviro-propaganda to make them feel guilty about the way in which humanity (and by inference the young readers of the book) have defiled Gaia. Tragic.'

#2013 Guiness Book of World Records 'Jiminy Cricket' on Bishop Hill has spotted a blatant piece of propagandising buried within this book, a book popular with youngsters.  It contains a section on climate change which mentions no 'records' at all and is merely a piece of special pleading.  It includes the hockey-stick plot and should be condemned for that alone.  Commenter Brent Hargreaves notes
'Jiminy, they're infiltrating kids' comics as well as the Guinness Book.  At Christmas I was saddened to find green propaganda even in my nephew's 2013 Dandy Annual.'

#2013 Germany.  State-supported extremism aimed at 14 year-olds.  Hat-tip No Tricks Zone

'Publishers Jacoby & Stuart, in cooperation with the German Ministry for Education and Research, headed by
Dr.Annette Schavan (who is currently being stripped of her doctorate title because of plagiarism) will be releasing a 140-page comic book titled: “The Great Transformation – Environment – This Is How We Take The Curve”.
The book is targeted at children 14 years old and up'

Comment by P. Gosselin 'It probably would be funny were it not to be read and believed by Germany’s children. It’s a meisterwerk of propaganda, aimed at shaping the the minds of children.
This is not a cynical joke written solely by some fringe scientists – rather it was written in cooperation with the German federal government. The book is totally absent of any balance.'


 http://notrickszone.com/2013/02/06/climate-science-turns-comic-john-schellnhuber-now-depicted-as-planet-saving-comic-hero-in-germany/#comments

#2013 UK 'Smart Science' (h/t David Smith)
This contains seriously misleading statements such as claiming recent global mean temperature rises are unprecedented (the 20th century alone refutes this), and have been preceded by hundreds or thousands of years in which this mean temperatures 'stays about the same from year to year'.  The news about the hockey stick being junk science clearly did not get through to the authors.  A section on chemistry and the environment has disaster innuendo supplied visually by a picture of a flooded street, while the text accompanying it is muddled and misleading.  The book is aimed at 11 to 14 year olds.







#2014 UK School Textbook  (2014 is year of receipt here).  A correspondent, David Smith, has sent in this photocopy from a
textbook issued to a 14-year old in the UK.  Note how CO2 is described as the most important greenhouse gas when of course it is a minor one.  Note also the orphan charts with no known parentage.  The temperature one is an egregious example of wishful thinking on the part of those who enjoy alarming us about temperatures: it has dramatically diminished the 1940s peak in tempersture and the subsequent cooling which continued into the 1970s.  The next warming phase is then left as the most dramatic when in fact it is very similar, albeit smaller in size, than the one in the first half of the 20th century.

#2014 The Magic School Bus is still being used, despite being largely fantastical and pernicious nonsense (see 2011 entries for it above).  But here is some good news about it:  it has been objected to by a parent.
     'MUSKEGON, Mich. – A West Michigan mother is questioning a book her kindergarten son brought home from his school’s library, because it portrays the global warming debate from one perspective only, and ignores other arguments.'

 '“My biggest problem is books like this are a caricature of reality and schools treat them as fact,” the mother, who requested anonymity, told EAGnews.
“They’re designed to scare children into accepting the green agenda while this is little more than global warming propaganda.
“I’m teaching my kids to turn off lights when they leave a room and to turn off the water when they’re brushing their teeth – that’s just common sense. But books like this seem to suggest we go beyond that and use pictures of sad animals to do it.
“Subtle books like this are a good reminder for parents that they need to be on top of what schools are offering to our children as ‘learning materials,’” she said.'

#2014 USA  A member of a school board objects to the textbook 'Environmental Science' by Heithaus and Arms.
Newspaper article about it here.







#2015 Australia  'The Earth in Peril' by Lesley McFadzean.  Described in this blog comment by John McLean : 'Last year my seven year old grandson brought a book home from the school library, a book aimed at seven and eight year old and containing a heap of Green propaganda to manipulate young minds.
It claims that extreme events are driven by climate change and that temperatures have been “rising steadily since the introduction of fossil fuels and engines”. It contains nonsense such as saying that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap heat, that Tuvalu is being inundated by rising seas, that recent heatwaves are due to global warming (but doesn’t say that there’s been no warming for at least 16 years). It’s just relentless propaganda without a shred of evidence to support it.
The book in question was “The Earth in Peril” by Lesley McFadzean, published in 2011 by Australian Geographic. Be aware that it seems to also be sold into North America.'  
I added the boldening to one sentence.
A 2012 edition is available on Amazon UK

#2015  UK.  Royal Met Society has published some reviews of weather and climate books aimed at school pupils:  http://www.metlink.org/secondary/book-reviews/?dm_i=2PRB,3Q8R,16TKOI,B64S,1

From what I know of the RMetSoc, any promoted on weather could be good, any promoted on climate must be treated with caution.

#2015 Australia - the wreck Christmas for the Kiddies market has a new entrant 'The Last Christmas' 
'What could make climate change more real for the kiddies than to get rid of Santa and drown the deer. No more presents, little ones!
Inspiration from  Tim Blair. who writes: If you enjoy making small children cry – and who doesn’t? – then Fairfax has the perfect Christmas gift idea.
An Australian scientist has written a new children’s book, just in time for Christmas, that weaves the impacts of climate change into a story about Santa Claus, his reindeers and an evil billionaire.
…
Because billionaires are always evil. It’s important to teach kids that only nasty people get rich.
Author Dr Ian Irvine, who has been a scientist for over three decades, first came up with the idea of marrying Christmas and climate change together for his eBook The Last Christmas, The North Pole is melting! two years ago.
Dr Ian Irvine is a specialist in the management of sediments, which may explain why he doesn’t seem up to date with sea ice trends.
“The ice at the North Pole isn’t very thick and over the last 30 years or so it has been getting a lot thinner, it is shrinking.
“It used to cover millions of square kilometres but now there is much less than that because of climate change.”
The story focuses on the littlest reindeer, Vixen, and her challenge to save Santa’s village and workshop from billionaire villain Mr Sneer who wants to steal Christmas for himself. In the background of the story, the ice at the North Pole slowly melts away.
Awkwardly the ice in the Arctic is not going along with the scare program. It’s only slightly below average for this time of year.'
Another so-called scientist jumps into the gutter of child-scaring climate guff.

#2015  UK  'The Story of Science' by Anna Claybourne.  Extract from a review posted by Robert Christopher on Bishop Hill 23 Dec 2015:

'I was reviewing a children's Science book, The Story of Science, by Laybourne and Larkum, from the local library, to see if it was appropriate for my niece to read, and found these mistakes:
page 15
It's all our fault!
Scientists all over the world have found signs that the Earth is getting too hot too quickly, and that this could damage many species, including our own.
[Too vague and threatening for a children's book, and what about the current 18.75 year Pause in temperatures?]
Trees which soak up carbon dioxide, are cut down all the time, often to make room for more cows, roads and power stations.
[All the Time? Oh yes, to feed the Drax Power Station's bio-fuel requirements. The trees are to be cut down in America, turned into pellets and shipped over to the UK for fuel :)]
page 43
We now know that carbon dioxide makes up about 0.5% of the air.
[Out by 1250%]
Some cars can run on hydrogen gas.
[But how many do, how many filling stations are there and how do they stop the hydrogen leaking? Why not mention coal fired vehicles, like steam trains, or is that non-PC?]
page 93
greenhouse gas: a gas in the Earth's atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that reflects heat back to the Earth.
[It isn't that simple and it isn't 'settled'. Why not list the most important greenhouse gases: water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone, and state that, without them, the Earth's average temperature at the surface would be about -1°C, rather than 14°C?]
It looked quite a good book, but these mistakes are bad, considering how sensitive the subject Global Warming, now renamed Climate Change, has become. With no Global Warming for over 18 years, no child at school has experienced Global Warming: the Antarctic has plenty of ice, the Arctic has plenty of ice and polar bears, and there is no more extreme weather now than in the past.'
#2015 Dangerous author alert: Anna Claybourne.  It seems that quite a few people get agitated by climate junk science/propaganda out there and take it upon themselves to pass it on to children.  Ms Claybourne seems to be one such.  From the same BH thread, stewgreen notes this: 
'Oh Edinburgh's Anna Claybourne is probably married to Greenpeace or something Twitter. Oh she just churns outs kids books, 150-200, mostly they don't even get a review on Amazon. 
Here are most of her other CC books
: 100 Facts : Saving the Earth By Anna Claybourne
: Wild Weather (50 Things You Should Know About)
: NEW Endangered Earth BY Anna Claybourne
: Book of Planet Earth Hardcover – 1 Sep 2015
: various Childrens Encyclopedias
: Encyclopedia of Planet Earth Jul-2013
: The Story of Science ...Another edition Dec 2014 is listed on Amazon
: Saving Energy: Earth's Resources (Do it Yourself)Sep 5, 2008
: Saving Water: Water Cycle (Do it Yourself)Sep 5, 2008 (why you need a $21 book to tell you to save water ?)
: Recycling: Reducing Waste (Do it Yourself)Sep 5, 2008
: Animals on the Edge ..whole series
: I Love This Tree: Discover the Life, Beauty and Importance of Trees'
#2016 Polar Bears Facts & Myths.  Polar bears in a sensible perspective.  Polar bears have been used in CO2 Scare propaganda aimed at children, and so this book by a leading expert in them is most welcome.
The book is reviewed here: 
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/24/book-review-polar-bear-facts-and-myths-a-science-summary-for-all-ages-by-susan-crockford/

 And can be bought here:

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1541123336









 #2017 Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change.  Published by the Paleontological Resaerch Institute in New York. (http://www.priweb.org/index.php)
They are raising funds to get this $25 book and /or an associated DVD to high schools in the USA.  A free pdf version can be downloaded from here: http://www.priweb.org/files/pubtext/TFG-ClimateChange-Complete.pdf
Written by naive followers of the Climate Alarm Cult, it aims to give a broad picture of what they hold to be true.   Much of it does not seem to be controversial, but as so often in this area, the bias is likely to be revealed by what they leave out.  I hope someone with a more critical view of this controversy will find time to go through it all in detail, and publish their findings.  Just in case this book is yet another piece of propaganda for political ends.

#2017 'Canadian Documentary Pokes Holes in Global-Warming Mantra'
On the good news side, videos/DVDs such as this one will surely increase in frequency and scope as the alarmism fiasco continues to unravel:   https://www.aier.org/blog/canadian-documentary-pokes-holes-global-warming-mantra , and textbooks suitable for children may also emerge in due course.#

#2018 Canada.  Scaring the 3-year olds.  Is there a market out there made up of people who want to raise anxieties about climate in 3 year old children?  A new book may help clarify that: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lumi-beluga-climate-change-kids-graphic-novel-1.4540730
A sort of low-grade 'Finding Nemo' by the look of it, but packed by the author with all sorts of opportunities and suggestions for those intent on getting pre-schoolers upset about the natural world.  What a sorry piece of work he must be!

#2018 USA.  Dr Mann (https://www.amazon.com/Disgrace-Profession-Mark-Steyn-editor/dp/0986398330) and a co-author have no shame in targeting kids:
https://grist.org/article/can-a-tantrum-save-the-world-we-asked-a-class-of-first-graders/
'Can a Tantrum Save the World' is their book.
#2020 'Can a Tantrum Save the World'  Some insights into this book, and its main author:  'The Tantrum book’s morass of pap and crap has hauled in further prizes and citations. The book’s blurb boasts that last year it won a  Moonbeam Award for “exemplary children’s books”'
https://cliscep.com/2020/01/31/what-a-piece-of-work-is-mann/

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