An Ohio bill would force college instructors to teach proven falsehoods and misleading fossil fuel talking points about climate change
Many schools mention climate change in science class, but absent efforts like those in New Jersey the curriculum can fall woefully behind the current science and state of urgency. On a recent visit to several D.C.-area charter schools, for instance, a colleague of mine was surprised by how little climate awareness was part of the curriculum.
Ohio’s law proposes to go entirely in the opposite direction, preventing educators from teaching the established facts of climate change as such, and forcing them to add misleading arguments from climate change skeptics. Supporters say the measure is about championing intellectual diversity on an important subject.
Classroom debates in which students are encouraged to argue and draw their own conclusions about big issues are an important part of education. But schools and colleges are also places for instruction, and it’s the job of teachers and educators to determine which topics are places to indulge multiple contrasting views, and which are places for hard facts.
. But it’s a profound disservice to the students who will face the realities of a warming world in the years ahead.
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