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Sunday, April 26, 2015
Food for thought in a high school science classroom.
Clearly this is in a science classroom NOT located in the deep south.
FWIW, I teach college in rural Georgia, and most of my first-year students come from the state's execrable public schools and identify as Christians. I get my share of papers about how Brittany Maynard went to hell for committing suicide and universal healthcare isn't in the Bible. So I was surprised to discover that the majority of them don't doubt that the earth is 460 million years old, climate change exists, and we'd damn well better do something about it.
There's more hope for millennials raised in the Bible belt than I realized when I moved down here.
The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
...The IRS has received several complaints from the environmental group Greenpeace demanding it investigate the secret relationship between the Koch brothers and a well-known climate denying scientist with questionable scientific credentials, The so-called “scientist,” Dr. Willie Soon, received over $1,6 million to create phony reports claiming climate change is not only non-existent, but that if it does exist there is no relationship to carbon emissions related to fossil fuels.
The particular issue of interest to the IRS is that the Koch brothers illegally wrote off as a tax deduction the payment to Soon for reports created specifically to affect legislation in Congress and state legislatures; a clear violation of the law. Earlier this year, the New York Times exposed the “special secret relationship” between Soon and the Kochs, ExxonMobil, and a large Southern coal-fired utility that included deliberately false scientific data Republicans regularly use to deny the existence and effects of global climate change claims made by 98% of the world’s real climate scientists.....
FWIW, I teach college in rural Georgia, and most of my first-year students come from the state's execrable public schools and identify as Christians. I get my share of papers about how Brittany Maynard went to hell for committing suicide and universal healthcare isn't in the Bible. So I was surprised to discover that the majority of them don't doubt that the earth is 460 million years old, climate change exists, and we'd damn well better do something about it.
ReplyDeleteThere's more hope for millennials raised in the Bible belt than I realized when I moved down here.
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DeleteTypo I presume. 4,600 million.
How soon before some conservative Christian Republican parent raises all kinds of hell over this???
ReplyDeleteThe IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
ReplyDelete...The IRS has received several complaints from the environmental group Greenpeace demanding it investigate the secret relationship between the Koch brothers and a well-known climate denying scientist with questionable scientific credentials, The so-called “scientist,” Dr. Willie Soon, received over $1,6 million to create phony reports claiming climate change is not only non-existent, but that if it does exist there is no relationship to carbon emissions related to fossil fuels.
The particular issue of interest to the IRS is that the Koch brothers illegally wrote off as a tax deduction the payment to Soon for reports created specifically to affect legislation in Congress and state legislatures; a clear violation of the law. Earlier this year, the New York Times exposed the “special secret relationship” between Soon and the Kochs, ExxonMobil, and a large Southern coal-fired utility that included deliberately false scientific data Republicans regularly use to deny the existence and effects of global climate change claims made by 98% of the world’s real climate scientists.....
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/26/irs-begins-investigating-koch-brothers-illegal-tax-deductions-denying-climate-change.html
Yay.
DeleteThey're investigating the NRA too, right?
About time.