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Thursday, February 16, 2012

INTERNAL DOCUMENTS: The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax

Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum” for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy.” This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.

“Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,” Heartland’s confidential 2012 fundraising document bemoans. The group believes that Wojick’s project has “potential for great success,” because he has “contacts at virtually all the national organizations involved in producing, certifying, and promoting scientific curricula.” The document explains that Wojick will produce “modules” that promote the conspiratorial claim that climate change is “controversial”:

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God someone is telling the truth to our kids... unlike the state indoctrinated school system

Anonymous said...

"...that promote the conspiratorial claim that climate change is 'controversial'”:
Unlike the non-conspiratorial claim that the science is "settled"???

Anonymous said...

thank God someone has stepped up to the plate and is telling the truth. secret? maybe not. at least it's not secret and lies...

Anonymous said...

Thank God someone is telling the truth to our kids... unlike the state indoctrinated school system

February 16, 2012 5:15 PM

That was a joke right?