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Re: [Phys-L] GCC: "More than a quarter of teachers give equal time to perspectives that raise doubt about the scientific consensus."




https://climate360news.lmu.edu/climate-change-is-widely-taught-in-american-public-schools-but-students-are-receiving-mixed-messages/ <https://climate360news.lmu.edu/climate-change-is-widely-taught-in-american-public-schools-but-students-are-receiving-mixed-messages/>

Prospects for curbing AGCC don’t “look good”.

bc …. wonders how much this is due to the carbon industries’ influence.


I remember a famous political interfering in science in the 17th cent.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo>


Garret Hardin posited that isolation sometimes results in a great advancement. His famous example is Darwin’s escape from plagued London to write his magnum opus, Mine: House arrest of Galileo.