{"id":6912,"date":"2012-01-28T00:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T08:03:31","slug":"alec-a-source-of-climate-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/alec-a-source-of-climate-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEC a Source of Climate Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think it bad enough that Republicans choose lies over science in order to claim global climate change dies not exist to generate more profit for criminal corporate polluters.  However, they have found a way to make it far worse.  They are attempting to mandate indoctrinating our school children with these lies.  I bet you can guess which infamous brothers are behind this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"28climate\"On January 16, the Los Angeles Times <\/em><\/span>revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of climate change denial or "skepticism"<\/a><\/font> as a credible "theoretical alternative" to human-caused climate change<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

The L.A. Times’ Neela Banerjee explained<\/a><\/font>,<\/font><\/p>\n

"Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial<\/strong> as a valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying climate change<\/strong>. Tennessee and Oklahoma also have introduced legislation to give climate change skeptics a place in the classroom<\/strong>."<\/font><\/p>\n

What the excellent Times<\/em><\/span> coverage missed is that key language in these anti-science bills all eminated [SIC] from a single source: the American Legislative Exchange Council<\/a><\/font>, or ALEC.<\/font><\/p>\n

ALEC Exposed: No, Not Alec Baldwin* <\/h6>\n

In summer 2011, "ALEC Exposed<\/a><\/font>," a project of the Center for Media and Democracy<\/a><\/em><\/font><\/span> (CMD)**<\/strong><\/span>, taught those alarmed about the power that corporations wield in the American political sphere an important lesson: when bills with a similar DNA pop up in various statehouses nationwide, it’s no coincidence… <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Truth-Out<\/a>><\/p>\n

Few organizations are more addicted to Koch sucking than ALEC.  I urge you to wander over to ALEC Exposed<\/a> for more information about this Republican cancer threatening the heart of America.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might think it bad enough that Republicans choose lies over science in order to claim global climate change dies not exist to generate more profit for criminal corporate polluters.  However, they have found a way to make it far worse.  They are attempting to mandate indoctrinating our school children with these lies.  I bet […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}