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Climate Miseducation

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked with dozens of children and teachers to find out why. In her book, Miseducation: How Climate is Taught in America, Worth unpacks the influence of the fossil fuel industry, state legislatures and school boards on school curricula in their effort to spread confusion and misinformation about the climate crisis.  Some organizations skip the textbook battle entirely and try to reach children directly through assemblies and social media. How do teachers navigate these dynamics in the classroom? How can we ensure our children are learning to be engaged, educated and climate-aware citizens? For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts  Guests: Katie Worth, investigative journalist, author, Miseducation: How Climate is Taught in America Lea Dotson, Campaigner, Action for the Climate Emergency Ann Reid, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Ben Graves, former science teacher in Delta County, CO Support our work: climateone.org/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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to learn more. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Climate Change Science isn't taught accurately or

0:37.0

equally across the country. Some of that

0:39.2

comes down to what teachers themselves know and understand about it. Many of them are not aware

0:45.1

of the level of consensus, and so they might portray to their students that there is not this

0:50.0

nearly universal consensus among climate scientists about our impact on the climate.

0:59.0

In some cases, there's undue influence by politicians or the fossil fuel industry.

1:06.5

There's a ton of these curricula. Some of them are pretty blatantly anti-climate science,

1:13.9

and some of them are more subtle about it. To counter this, some are working to reach and motivate students around climate on a different level.

1:19.1

There are so many ways to educate our students that does not happen within classrooms.

1:23.3

Social media, whether we like it or not, is a education vehicle.

1:30.2

Take a minute to think back to your middle and high school days.

1:35.4

What do you remember learning about the science of climate disruption and the growing climate crisis?

1:41.9

What you learned was probably somewhat dependent on when and where you grew up and who your teachers were.

1:46.0

Science standards in school curricula are always evolving, but the decentralized education system in the U.S. allows for widely different interpretations

1:51.0

of teaching the same basic subjects. In her new book, Miss Education, How Climate Change

1:58.0

is taught in America, author and investigative journalist Katie Worth dug into how climate science is taught and who tries to influence it.

2:06.6

One primary focus is how much the oil and gas industry has worked to alter the narrative, following tactics used by the tobacco industry to sow distrust and doubt about climate science.

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