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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."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Angry Jesus on Monday March 17 2014, @03:35PM
> It's not wrong, it's that the kids will eventually grow up and they might make us do something about it.
Seems like the progression in thinking has been:
1) Climate change is not real
2) Climate change is real, but is a natural phenomenon
3) Climate change is real, is man-made, but it is no big deal
4) Climate change is real, is man-made, is a big deal, but humans will just invent news ways to cope like GMOs
The one thing in common is that at every step of the way the goal is to come up wtih an excuse to protect the oil industry.