Presumably, the kid is more environmentally aware than his doofus dad and presumably the little green kid learned his global warming chops at school. Kids do learn about global warming at school--there are plenty of guides, lesson plans, and free materials out there to teach global warming to PreK-12th grade. Nickelodeon even has global warming specials on so that every child ca be inculcated in this man-made disaster as early as possible.
But there may be a pushback brewing. For the first time EVER, among all the usual pile of educational catalogues and materials that go straight to the recycling bin, was a teaching material that refutes global warming--The Skeptics Handbook. Here is the opening plaint from the author, Joane Nova:
"Rise above the mud-slinging in the Global Warming debate. Here are the strategies and tools you need to cut through the red herrings and avoid the traps."
I'm guessing Joanne means the traps of getting cornered in the gym or the cloak room by one of those little eco-scolds from the Mastercard commercial. Ms. Nova's slim volume goes over topics with headings like The Global Warming Gravy Train Ran Out Of Evidence, Believers Are Becoming Skeptics, and Cutting Through The Fog. Ms. Nova finishes her treatise with this bottom line:
"Carbon doesn't seem to have driven temperatures before; probably isn't doing it now; things are not getting warmer; and computer models can't predict the weather. An emissions trading scheme is a bad solution to a problem that's gone, fighting a cause that never was..."
This handbook seems about as alarmist as the global warmers talking about floods all the way to the Alabama line in the coming decades--so I don't know what the educational value might be. But I will say its the first educational pushback on global warming that I've seen come through my mailbox.
