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OT - new carbon tax 3-Mar-2011 At 2:48:49 PM billk
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On 3/03/2011 big g wrote:
>I have follwed this entire thread out of interest because I am a science
>teacher who believes that some form of science education should be compulsary
>after Y10 so that we can actually have sensible debate about climate change.

The first climate change skeptic I encountered was my chemistry teacher back in 1979. He banged on the map of the world at the front of the classroom, somewhere south of Tasmania, and said: "This is why I think all this stuff about the Greenhouse Effect is BS! The oceans provide an absolutely enormous sink for carbon dioxide. They will soak up anything we put into the atmosphere." (I might not have word perfect memory 32 years later but I reckon I'm close.)

I wasn't smartarse enough to put up my hand and ask it but the question that immediately came into my head was: " Why doesn't somebody go out and measure it?"
In fact they had been for about 30 years (on Mauna Loa and in the Antarctic) and were getting the clear answer that atmospheric CO2 had been steadily rising for all of that period. Pity Jack the Bear didn't know about that research and tell us about it.

Anyway, I agree that teaching more about clear thinking and a respect for evidence would help foster more rational debate across the board.

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