{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-27T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texasenergyexchange\/2009\/03\/27\/global-warming-everywhere-but-texas\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:27:21","slug":"global-warming-everywhere-but-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2009\/03\/27\/global-warming-everywhere-but-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming: Everywhere but Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" align=\"right\" width=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlottechd.com\/images\/Nuisance\/Schools.jpg\" hspace=\"1\" alt=\"Children Raising Hands\" height=\"198\" \/>Clean energy growth can certainly be tied to economics, but clean energy\u2019s roots have much to do with our world\u2019s changing climate. That\u2019s why I feel compelled to write about my strong disagreement\u00a0with today\u2019s decision by the Texas State Board of Education casting doubt on global warming, setting our children back compared with their peers.<\/p>\n<p>The Board\u2019s last-minute decision changed the language in a school textbook chapter on Environmental Systems to include the phrase \u201canalyze and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy of this ruling is that it places Texas children at a competitive disadvantage in science education, thus failing them as they prepare to compete in the global marketplace. It also suggests to them that their economic and lifestyle choices are unrelated to global warming, thus eroding many parents\u2019 efforts to instill in their children the ethic that they must be responsible for their own actions.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the board ignore its own scientific advisory committee, let alone leading scientific consensus by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/displaypagedoc.asp?id=20742\" title=\"National Academy of Science\">National Academy of Science<\/a>, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\" title=\"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a> and our own <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/atmo.tamu.edu\/Climate-Change-Statement.html\" title=\"A&amp;M University's Department of Atmospheric Science\">A&amp;M University\u2019s Department of Atmospheric Science<\/a>? Why did the board suggest this language change just two days before a final vote?<\/p>\n<p>Surely they knew that such language would be indefensible and therefore chose to give scant notice for public comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy growth can certainly be tied to economics, but clean energy\u2019s roots have much to do with our world\u2019s changing climate. 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