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May 30, 2006

Big Energy Takes to Authoring School Textbooks

You might at first think it's a good think that a 7th grade science textbook is telling children to use sun block. That is, until you learn what kind of sun block the book is talking about.

One father is raising the alarm after reading his child's 7th grade science textbook which teaches that chemtrails and the air pollution generated by coal burning are creating a helpful sunscreen to protect us from getting skin cancer.

The chemtrails section is found in the Centre Point Learning Science I Essential Interactions science book. Under "Solutions for Global Warming", section 5.19 features a photo of a big multi-engine jet sporting a familiar orange/red paint scheme.

The caption reads: "Figure 1- Jet engines running on richer fuel would add particles to the atmosphere to create a sunscreen".

It seems the energy moguls have taken to authoring textbooks (did it ever occur to you they would do that?). If that wasn't bad enough, they're only giving the kids one side of the story.

Airborne soot also blocks sunlight, lowering greenhouse temperatures. Volcanic eruptions like Krakatoa and Pinatubo - and globe-circling soot from 1,000 burning oil wells during Desert Storm - belched enough sulphur into the stratosphere to cause a plunge in world temperatures, temporarily slowing global warming.

World scientists looking at deliberately putting megatons more sulphur into a closed, recirculating atmosphere already smoggy enough to depresses orbiting astronauts, decided that a sulphur sunscreen is not a swift idea.

But not this Jr. High science text. "Creating either kind of sunscreen would be cheap," it tells young readers. As if "cheap" is the only consideration.

Like this concerned dad, I'm wondering why the book isn't teaching kids about "planting trees, or turning down thermostats, or bicycling, or any of the other ways not to add to the problem?"

Posted by Becky at May 30, 2006 09:26 AM

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