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A school board director, and Tea party Republican, in Pennsylvania wants textbooks to contain the "true science" refuting Global Warming.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

A school director in Pennsylvania is demanding that an environmental science textbook used in high schools be supplemented with a pamphlet about the “true science” of global warming.

Saucon Valley School Director and Tea Party Republican Bryan Eichfeld claimed “there’s a lot of clear propaganda…based on bad science” in the chapter, the point of which “is to teach our students to fear the future and to hate our modern industrial economy.”

He urged his fellow school directors to reject the textbook.

In a letter, Eichfeld claimed that Environmental Science “utterly fails to present the well-founded science of man-made Global warming skeptics,” and urged them to adopt “an attachment to the book that provides students with the excluded scientific evidence and data that challenge the global warming claims made in the book.”

If that reminds you of the attempts by Creationists to promote the "teach both sides of the science" argument in order to insert religious ideas into a public school classroom that is likely not an accident.

In fact climate science deniers have been inserting language attacking the science of global warming in the same published Christian textbooks that also attack evolution. (As you can see for yourself in this clip from Jesus Camp.)

Essentially once you have convinced people to doubt the findings of the vast number of scientists on one topic it is very simple to extrapolate that to the other scientific findings that you find objectionable.

However while the argument against evolution can be understood as push back from people who do not want their belief system undermined, it is much harder to understand what motivates average Americans to jump on the global warming denial train to stupidity.

Especially considering the consequences.

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