num_pages: 184
description: Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks built a 50-state database and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made and science instructors are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it.Who has tried to influence what children learn and how successful have they been? Worth connects the dots on oil corporations state legislatures school boards libertarian thinktanks conservative lobbyists and textbook publishers all of whom have learned from the fight over evolution and tobacco and are now sowing uncertainty confusion and distrust about climate science with the result that four in five Americans today dont think there is a scientific consensus on global warming. In the words of a top climate educator We are the only country in the world that has had a multi-decade multi-billion dollar deny-delay-confuse campaign. Miseducation is the alarming story of how climate denialism was implanted in millions of school children.
language: English
title: Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America
publisher: Columbia Global Reports