Distortions and fabrications: The state of climate education

We speak with Katie Worth, investigative journalist and author of Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America. Ms. Worth explores what children across the country are taught, or not taught, about climate change. In 24 states, oil and gas company representatives teach children about the wonders of fossil fuels, downplaying or denying their climate impacts. With an eye on sales in Texas, textbooks falsely depict a scientific debate over climate science, and often cover it in the last unit of the last chapter. Overview 00:00-00:46 Intros 00:46-02:33 Patterns in what children are (and aren’t) being taught about climate  change 02:33-03:30 Pre-service training about teaching climate change 03:30-04:52 Climetime in Washington state 04:52-05:55 Professional development resources 05:55-08:22 State science standards and climate change 08:22-12:24 Textbooks and climate change 12:24-15:20 Public/private partnerships that provide climate change programming 15:20-18:47 Oklahoma’s Energy Resources Board 18:47-22:08 Pressures teachers face in teaching accurate science 22:08-25:43 Cloaking religion in academic sounding language 25:43-27:44 Discovery Institute 27:44-29:45 Outro Transcript

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