A reader Russell writes in to tell me his Year 9 son Jordan and his friend, Tom, took on their teacher’s sacred belief in man-made global warming. Given no warning, and called insulting names in front of the class, they took up the challenge with gusto and stayed up til 1am that night to put the presentation together. Not surprisingly the teacher tried to pull out the next day, but the class would not let her.
One of the slides quotes Al Gore mocking “the tiny minority”, like the ones “who still believe that the moon landing was faked…”. Then it shows and quotes four Apollo Astronauts and Burt Rutan (the first private astronaut).
One of the ten slides
From reader Russell:
The other week at school my eldest son (15) was challenged by his teacher to present to the class why he is a ”climate change denier”. He had to do this presentation the next day.
At the start of his class the next day he advised the teacher he was ready. She told him she wasn’t interested now, maybe another day. His classmates started heckling her saying ”You Chicken Miss”. She eventually agreed and got another teacher to sit in as well. Before my son spoke she showed the class the promo to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. After his presentation the class gave him a standing ovation. There is a lot more to this story, the above overview sort of explains what occurred.
To start his talk he read out five quotes from the ”US Senate Minority Report” below, then his power point. She made him stop the Prof Carter video 3min into it, the Prof Ball podcast about 5min in and let the class watch the other 10min video all the way through.
May there be a thousand young rebels following in their footsteps, says Jo.
Russell explained his son and friends get a hard time at school, though it seems, give their teachers a pretty hard time in return:
“…They [the boys] question everything they being taught and who’s the messenger. They know the truth about AGW, Sustainable Development, UNESCO,OECD, over population, open borders, media, communism, politics, the list goes on. One his mates sent the 10min video ”Agenda 21 for Dummies” reply all on the schools email, even the teachers received the link.”
“… there is some history with the boys and this teacher, she is a true socialist. One example of this is she told Jordan ‘His opinion is irrelevant, and only when you become an adult people will listen to what you have to say. Shut up, I am the TEACHER and you’re here to learn.’
I expect the teacher in question will not forget this lesson (though possibly she will interpret her mistake as being to let students speak).
The powerpoint presentation (800k .pptx)
Sources and video links below.
Russell says that skepticism is alive and well in teenagers, despite them being raised on the climate dogma:
Some sources:
- Hockey Stick: How the IPCC tried to re-write history by getting rid of the Medieval Warm Period. [John-daly.com]
- Climategate: The greatest scientific scandal known to man [Wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/]
The Western Climate Establishment is Cheating by David Evans [Joannenova.com.au and PDF] ”How many excuses does it take? The Western Climate Establishment has allowed egregious mistakes, major errors, and obvious biases to accumulate — each factor on its own might be hard to pin down, but the pattern is undeniable”. - Surface Stations: Peer reviewed paper exposing more IPCC corruption. [Wattsupwiththat.com]
- Quotations from The U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Scientists Continue to Debunk Consensus by Senator James M. Inhofe16/version [Scienceandpublicpolicy.org Reprint]
The Videos / Audio track
- Sydney Mining Club presentation “Bob Carter”.
- Unstoppable Solar Cycles Willie Soon, David Legates
- Radio Interview “Eye Spy”. Big-government and CO2 (Tim Ball interview)
- Chris Horners Youtube “Cooling”.
Can I suggest another great resource for students is Ian Plimer’s book How to get expelled from school. ;- )