In Colorado classrooms, climate change skepticism rising like ocean levels

By David O. Williams

Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students.

Here’s a recent example of negative parental reaction to a climate change presentation last week at a high school on Colorado’s Western Slope:


“The school brought in this company to push liberalism and radical environmentalism,” wrote Paul Gallagher, a Gypsum resident whose niece attends Eagle Valley High School. “My sister and I sat through this almost one-hour of garbage and heard the presentation about ‘climate change,’ a lack of snow in Colorado due to global warming, ‘glaciers melting,’ ‘polar bears’ disappearing, how cow ‘flatulence’ contributes to the problem, how we all should ‘walk or bike somewhere if less than five miles away,’ buy ‘local farmers markets’ produce, the importance of ‘recycling,’ ‘doomsday’ is approaching without taking action, etc. It was very concerning.”

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