"Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation’s culture wars."
"The documents, from a nonprofit organization in Chicago called the Heartland Institute, outline plans to promote a curriculum that would cast doubt on the scientific finding that fossil fuel emissions endanger the long-term welfare of the planet. 'Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,' one document said.
While the documents offer a rare glimpse of the internal thinking motivating the campaign against climate science, defenders of science education were preparing for battle even before the leak. Efforts to undermine climate-science instruction are beginning to spread across the country, they said, and they fear a long fight similar to that over the teaching of evolution in public schools."
Justin Gillis and Leslie Kaufman report for the New York Times February 15, 2012.
SEE ALSO:
"The Heartland Files and the Climate Fight" (Dot Earth)
"What Happened At Heartland?" (Forbes/Steve Zwick)
"Climate Science Attack Machine Took Donations From Major Corporations" (Guardian)
"Leaked: a Plan To Teach Climate Change Skepticism in Schools" (MSNBC)
"Heartland Institute Claims Fraud After Leak of Climate Change Documents" (Guardian)
"The 'Fake' Memo Definitely Looks Suspicious" (Quark Soup/David Appell)
"Dollars, Documents And Denial: a Tangled Web" (Australian ABC)
"Scientist Denies He Is Mouthpiece Of US Climate-Sceptic Think Tank" (Sydney Morning Herald)
"Think Tank Reverses Course on Climate Lobbying" (Capital Weather Gang/Wash Post)
"The Sureness of Global Warming Skeptics" (Capital Weather Gang/Wash Post)
"Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts 'Lamestream Media' for Climate Leak" (Mother Jones)
