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A new textbook refuting global warming is set for release – just as a series of guides on teaching the human causes of climate change are poised to be published. Inside the political fight over climate change in classrooms, via @frontlinePBS & @groundtruth pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
These dueling education campaigns are the latest sign that children’s understanding of climate change is seen as up for grabs – a fight @frontlinePBS and @GroundTruth Project have been reporting on over the past year.
.@katieworth first broke the story in March of 2017 that the Heartland Institute was mailing science teachers across the country a book titled "Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
After the @frontlinePBS and @GroundTruth report, three ranking Democrats on the House committees overseeing education condemned climate change skeptics for targeting teachers. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
The Heartland Institute dismissed the lawmakers’ statement. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
After @BetsyDeVosED praised President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, four Democratic senators wrote a letter asking DeVos if administration officials were in contact with the Heartland Institute. @SenWhitehouse was among them. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
Heartland declined to comment on any connection to the Education Department, and its former CEO Joseph Bast said Sen. Whitehouse, himself, was guilty of bringing “politics into high school classrooms.” pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
Throughout 2017, at least 11 measures were introduced in nine Republican states aimed at supporting public school teachers who want to teach “diverse” views on climate. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
About year after the Heartland Institute’s "Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” hit teachers’ mailboxes, many of the same educators got a book called "The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change” from the Paleontological Research Institution. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
Read the latest from @katieworth for a closer look at the continuing fight over science education: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
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On Nov. 20, @frontlinePBS and @ProPublica go inside a violent neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military.

Watch the trailer now: to.pbs.org/2QI1pus
We first encountered Atomwaffen in our reporting for “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville.” to.pbs.org/2PoT7Lm
One of the Charlottesville assailants we identified had ties to Atomwaffen – Vasillios Pistolis. At the time, he was an active-duty U.S. Marine.
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With Democrats back in control, it's time for the House Science Committee to start up the #ExxonKnew investigation again! Let's review this wild saga of lawsuits, subpoenas, and climate denial in this thread —>
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1/ Back in 2015, reporting at @InsideClimateNews and the @LATimes revealed that Exxon and other oil companies knew about the threat of climate change decades ago, but lied about it to the public and did everything they could to stop efforts to address it.
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2/ Just as Big Tobacco lied about the risks of addiction and cancer, Exxon orchestrated a campaign of doubt and deception, making hundreds of billions at the cost of people's lives — now it's time for them to face the consequences.
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I'm sure we can all agree the stupidest politicians are those who claim every winter that since it's unusually cold, there is no global warming.

Only slightly less stupid are the politicians that point to every threatening hurricane as evidence of climate change.
That picture shows nothing unusual, expect that it puts a circle around every storm that is not a hurricane making them look as dangerous as a hurricane. It shows the typical assembly line of storms that always form in the tropics this time of year.
Science denialism works in BOTH directions. Overstating/exaggerating the science is equally as invalid as understating it.
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1/ A national park in New England is the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s campaign to censor reports about climate change.

Here’s what went down … revealnews.org/article/nation…
2/ A year ago, the superintendent of @NewBedfordNPS, a coastal national park in Massachusetts, signed off on her park’s “foundation document,” a 50-page booklet outlining New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park’s natural and historic treasures and the threats they face.
3/ We filed a Freedom of Information Act (#FOIA) request and got a copy of the draft.

It included 16 references to climate change and the risks posed by its effects: sea level rise, flooding and increased stormwater.
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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
Parties gave themselves in effect 3 years to come up with a text agreed by everyone, ratified, and translated into national law on a state-by-state basis. The idea is the accord isn't legally binding, but the rulebook it provides could be on a national level
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'In July 2018, only 23% of people told us that they trust train travel. This represents a six percentage-point drop compared with July 2017. In fact, this makes train travel one of the least-trusted consumer industries, beaten to last place only by car dealers.' 1/
'At the same time, rail fares have increased by 40% since 2008, which is more than one-and-a-half times higher than CPI inflation (26%) over the same period.' 2/

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On Wednesday, July inflation figures will be released. RPI is expected to have risen by about 3.5% since last July. Rail fares increase annually on the basis of July-to-July RPI increases. 3/
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Interesting statement. But who claims 'global warming is a hoax on Hawkins' terms alone, and what is their argument?
We should recall that climate change was the latest in a series of claims about 'our common future' that a clearly identifiable movement made in its attempts to make the 'environment' the foundation of global politics, power & institutions.
Many of the claims that movement made -- including institutional science -- were false from the outset, and its dire predictions never materialised.

Meanwhile, the enduring characteristic of that movement's players has been utter intransigence.
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