Still No Global Warming For 17 Years 10 Months

[firstfloor]

My~y my. Reading comprehension fail. How so very ordinary.

Feel free to explain what you mean.

[tabibito]

One reason that you look to pseudoscience for comfort is that Christianity celebrates ignorance. -
[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 2 Corinthians 10:4,5”

My~y my. Reading comprehension fail. How so very ordinary.

[firstfloor]

All the things included in your post ― however deceptively termed to sound wholesome and desirable ― are in reality designed to destroy relationships between students and their parents and their Christian upbringing. The results? Children and teenagers disillusioned, drug-adicted, pregnant out of wedlock, in legal trouble, etc., etc.

One reason that you look to pseudoscience for comfort is that Christianity celebrates ignorance. -
[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 2 Corinthians 10:4,5”
― (the exceptionally wealthy) Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

[Jedidiah]

It certainly does not; it was not "critical thinking" that was being taught: that term was part of the deceptive mis-terming of what was being presented.

Amen.

[John Reece]

Study: Earth was warmer in Roman, Medieval times

From the Daily Caller:

Study: Earth was warmer in Roman, Medieval times

[firstfloor]

The Texas GOP seems to have its priorities straight, at least. Uncharacteristic, but intriguing, for Republicans.

Thanks for the video. Wish I had your educashun.

[shunyadragon]

17 years of annual temperatures is too short a period to conclude the long term trends of global warming. In that period we did have the world record average temperature including average annual higher temperature then the previous record keeping history. The trends over a longer period clearly indicate global warming, shifts of rainfall to dryer conditions in the temperate zones near deserts increasing the desert regions and semiarid regions impacting world agriculture, and rising ocean water temperatures.

[John Reece]

How in the world can critical thinking lead to drug addiction or teen pregnancy?

It certainly does not; it was not "critical thinking" that was being taught: that term was part of the deceptive mis-terming of what was being presented.

[Jedidiah]

How in the world can critical thinking lead to drug addiction or teen pregnancy?

I am speaking with no knowledge of the described Higher Order Thinking Skills specifically discussed here. In general, however, teaching which purports to teach superior judgement abilities is extremely likely to be biased toward liberalism. Supporting the status quo is usually seen as failure to think critically. Doubt is taught as superior rather than actual critical thinking.

[Kristian Joensen]

How in the world can critical thinking lead to drug addiction or teen pregnancy?

[seer]

No worries, the Ants will save us!

NEW YORK: Ants may be cooling the Earth by helping trap carbon dioxide from the environment, a new study has claimed.

A long-term experiment tracking the ants' effects on soil suggests they cooled Earth's climate as their numbers grew.

"Ants are changing the environment," said lead study author Ronald Dorn, from the Arizona State University in Tempe.

Certain ant species "weather" minerals in order to secrete calcium carbonate — better known as limestone. The process traps and removes a tiny bit of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere, Dorn said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/h...w/39547238.cms

[Epoetker]

But learning new stuff can be pretty difficult when you are opposed in principal.

From the Texas GOP platform 2012
Knowledge Based Education
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Okay.

The Texas GOP seems to have its priorities straight, at least. Uncharacteristic, but intriguing, for Republicans.

[John Reece]

But learning new stuff can be pretty difficult when you are opposed in principal.

From the Texas GOP platform 2012
Knowledge Based Education
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

I had to go through a Values Clarification training session while I was doing required inservice training as a counselor in a mental health center many years ago. By the time the course was over I was quite depressed. No young student should have to go through such a depressing exercise. It is not the rightful business of public schools to be doing such things.

My youngest daughter had to go through the same thing as a high school student. Her mother in real life had wound up in a mental institution for the rest of her life ― I got her mother out of the institution against medical advice just so that daughter would not have to go through life with the stigma of having been born in a mental hospital. Imagine the effect on my daughter when (as part of a Values Clarification course to which she was subjected in high school) she had to vote along with her classmates re who of a hypothetical group of people in a lifeboat should be thrown overboard to lighten the boat so others might survive, and the whole class except for my daughter voted to throw overboard a mental patient = one of the hypothetical group in the hypothetical lifeboat. You cannot imagine what people who have a wife or mother diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia go through, so you cannot imagine the effect of that exercise on my daughter.

All the things included in your post ― however deceptively termed to sound wholesome and desirable ― are in reality designed to destroy relationships between students and their parents and their Christian upbringing. The results? Children and teenagers disillusioned, drug-adicted, pregnant out of wedlock, in legal trouble, etc., etc.

While I was a counselor in the mental health center, my wife and I attended a workshop that was presented in an auditorium at NC State University. The workshop was led by a woman who was serving or had served on the NC state board for curriculum development. She spent a whole day presenting reams of documentation of what was being taught in NC public schools ― much along the lines alluded to in your quote above. All day long I found myself thinking "That's why I am seeing what I am seeing in troubled children and teens at the mental health center."

The presenter at the workshop at NC State of course presented much more than my wife and I saw first hand while my younger daughter was going through high school; however, what we did see was quite of the same character. My daughter, in some classes, was taught from loose leaf sheets of paper rather than books, and was instructed not to share the sheets of paper with parents. But the daughter did bring the papers home and shared them with us.

I'm quite tired and must stop here. Hopefully, enough said already.

[firstfloor]

Yes, I am enjoying this stuff.

But learning new stuff can be pretty difficult when you are opposed in principal.

From the Texas GOP platform 2012
Knowledge Based Education
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Word games: not predictions but projections.
Like 'the dog ate the homework', the oceans ate the global warming ― by the way, that was not 'projected', was it?

Okay.

[John Reece]

Try this:
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2...t-in-the-news/
BTW, I hope you are enjoying learning this stuff as much as I am.

Yes, I am enjoying this stuff.

Word games: not predictions but projections.

Like 'the dog ate the homework', the oceans ate the global warming ― by the way, that was not 'projected', was it?