Are students getting whole story on climate change?
The scientific debate over global warming is not closed. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, only 20 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the scientific debate about global warming is over. Sixty-three percent disagree and say the debate continues.
What is happening in a fourth-grade class at Cherokee Elementary School in Lake Forest School District 67 is not unlike what is happening in classrooms around this state and nation. Students at Cherokee have been learning about renewable sources of energy. In the process they are being encouraged to become young political activists through interaction with their Lake Forest City government and their local Democrat state representative, Scott Drury.
Most likely the same fourth-graders fell prey to the polar bear ruse in an earlier grade, upset when polar bears sank into the arctic seas because of melting polar ice caps, when polar bears can swim!
Do parents know what their children are being taught in their classrooms? The Common Core Science curriculum teaches that global warming is man-made and that the science backing it is indisputable, when in reality there has been has been no global warming for 18 full years.
When fourth-graders at Cherokee, through research, settled on wind and solar power as the best power methods for the City of Lake Forest, were they ever encouraged to check the drawbacks inherent in wind and solar power before voicing their conclusions?
The sun and the wind might be free, but converting them to reliable electricity is expensive, if not impossible to do. When the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow, backup power is required.
Mandating renewable energy, while curtailing fossil fuels, will result in higher costs for energy and goods purchased and periods of blackout when existing energy supply cannot meet demand.
To most Americans the continued obsession over the effects of man-made global warming when in reality man has little if any ability to control the climate, should be a no brainer.
Nancy J. Thorner
Lake Bluff