{"id":4479,"date":"2012-02-21T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2012-02-17T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:02:35","slug":"year-3-month-2-day-21-post-modernist-science-education-applying-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-to-atmospheric-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-2-day-21-post-modernist-science-education-applying-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-to-atmospheric-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 2, Day 21: Post-Modernist Science Education: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis To Atmospheric Chemistry."},"content":{"rendered":"

More on the Heartland Institute leak, from the New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n

Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation\u2019s culture wars.
\nRelated in Opinion<\/p>\n

The documents, from a nonprofit organization in Chicago called the Heartland Institute, outline plans to promote a curriculum that would cast doubt on the scientific finding that fossil fuel emissions endanger the long-term welfare of the planet. \u201cPrincipals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,\u201d one document said.<\/p>\n

While the documents offer a rare glimpse of the internal thinking motivating the campaign against climate science, defenders of science education were preparing for battle even before the leak. Efforts to undermine climate-science instruction are beginning to spread across the country, they said, and they fear a long fight similar to that over the teaching of evolution in public schools. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what? I’m sick of people saying “alarmist” like it’s an insult. The news is pretty fucking alarming,<\/em> all the damn time. If you’re not alarmed (hell, if you’re not absolutely terrified<\/em>) you’re just not paying attention. Sorry to harsh your mellow, but that’s what’s happening.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I like the phrase “nihilistic political solipsism.” Sent February 16:<\/p>\n

In the helter-skelter 24-hour news cycle that shapes American politics, the words of officials from the previous administration might as well be written in hieroglyphics; the first decade of our century is already ancient history. But the recent leak of documents from the Heartland Institute describing their plans to foster climate-change denial in our nation’s classrooms call to mind Karl Rove’s comments to journalist Ron Suskind. Expressing contempt for the “reality-based community,”<\/em> Rove went on to say, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But this is a dangerous game. Old-style Soviet historical revisionism is only effective when the facts are all in the past; the Heartland Institute is attempting to revise the future by applying their nihilistic political solipsism to actual real-world problems requiring reality-based solutions. The physics and chemistry of the greenhouse effect won’t be fooled by banners and photo ops.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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