Climate Skeptic ^ | July 21, 2008 A reader sent me a heads-up to an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ($, abstract here ) titled "Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint". The authors express concern that non-science students don't sufficiently understand global warming and its causes, and want to initiate a re-education program in schools to get people thinking the "right" way. So, do climate scientists want to focus on better educating kids in details of the carbon cycle? In the complexities in sorting out causes of warming between natural and man-made effects? In difficulties with climate modeling? In the huge role that feedback plays in climate forecasts? Actually, no. Interestingly, the curriculum advocated in the Journal of American Meteorology has very little to do with...
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