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Wyoming Hissyfit over Climate Change Education

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @03:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-sand dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"For a few years the National Research Council, National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been working to put together a set of standards for teaching science in public education schools. So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards. Wyoming doesn't appear to have issues with evolution. Instead, climate science appears to be the problem. That's not because any of the legislators have actually studied the science involved and found it lacking. The issue appears to be solely with the implications of the science.

State Representative Matt Teeters had this to say '[The standards] handle global warming as settled science. There's all kind of social implications involved in that that I don't think would be good for Wyoming.' Specifically, Teeters seems to think that having citizens of the state accept climate science would 'wreck Wyoming's economy,' which relies heavily on fossil fuel production."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @01:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @01:36PM (#17567)

    How nice to know that Soylent News is going to be blissfully free of any attempt to maintain a neutral point of view on reporting items.

    Sheesh, we might as well go back and suck down whatever Dice wants us to swallow.

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  • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Monday March 17 2014, @02:47PM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Monday March 17 2014, @02:47PM (#17622)

    Too bad you posted AC, because I had a similar reaction. Even Dice's weak excuses for editors would have derailed trolling *that* blatant.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Daniel Dvorkin on Monday March 17 2014, @05:41PM

      by Daniel Dvorkin (1099) on Monday March 17 2014, @05:41PM (#17717) Journal

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      • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:56PM

        by GeminiDomino (661) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:56PM (#18084)

        Whoever modded this up needs to be put in the corner with a dunce cap on, since they share parent's inability to recognize the difference between complaining against actual facts and complaining about using incendiary language to accomplish nothing other than being a prick.

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  • (Score: 1) by mvdwege on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:07AM

    by mvdwege (3388) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:07AM (#17987)

    Why don't you just fuck off back to Slashdot, to be with the rest of the Teenage Libertarian Randroids and AGW Denialists?

    It was a hissy fit. There is no equivalence between relatively settled science on the one hand and political rhetoric on the other.