Textbook Case of Climate Misinformation

Rusty · #1 04-19-2008, 03:02 PM

Caitlin G. Johnson, OneWorld US Fri., Apr. 18, 2008

NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man."

American Government textbook. © Friends of the Earth
The book, American Government 11th edition,
is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
and approved for use in high school Advanced
Placement courses in the United States.

Citing what it says are misleading and scientifically inaccurate passages in the chapter that covers environmental policy, the Friends of the Earth network has launched an email campaign asking the public to contact Houghton Mifflin and request a revision to the forthcoming edition and a corrective addendum for all editions still used in classrooms.

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Whether or not global warming is a proven scientific fact, I think it's inappropriate to put this in a student's text book.

Tracy · #2 04-19-2008, 03:08 PM

Berning's group also noted, however, that the textbook was authored by "a prominent conservative, James Q. Wilson, who is affiliated with the...American Enterprise Institute -- which has received oil industry funding -- and by John DiIulio, who served as director of faith-based initiatives in the George W. Bush White House."

Well....there ya go

Curly · #3 04-20-2008, 10:25 AM

The whole global warming thing is bull. Well, not all bull. I believe it's happening but it's nothing more than the earth doing what it naturally does and man has very little to do with it.

Crabby · #4 04-20-2008, 11:47 AM

I'd love to see the teacher's manual for that book to see if it is to be taught as "fact" or to suggest the open discussion of possibilities. It's high school AP, not third grade. Could make for some interesting debates.

Textbook Case of Climate Misinformation

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