Pennsylvania School Rejects Tea Party Director’s Effort To Teach Climate Denial

Teawingers have so much credibility when it comes to science, don’t they? A Pennsylvania school director, who also happens to be a Tea Party Republican, does not believe that an environmental science textbook written by real scientists is adequate for science education in his school district. He claimed that it doesn’t “present the well-founded science of man-made Global warming skeptics.”  Thankfully, the school board rejected Bryan Eichfeld’s efforts.

Eichfeld invited Bethlehem resident Paul Saunders, a chemical engineer, to refute [a] chapter. In particular, Saunders said that there has been no increase to global temperatures in almost two decades despite increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere….

The Saucon Valley school board members expressed reservations about bringing in an outside resident to question the school board’s textbook decisions, and questioned Eichfeld’s description of Saunders as a “local expert on the deceptions of global warming alarmists.” A chemical engineer is “a little far off climate” observed Director Charles Bartolet.

Ultimately, the rest of the board rejected Eichfeld’s proposal, with several members expressing discomfort over what they saw as Eichfeld’s effort to inject an ideological stance into the science department’s implementation of curriculum.

“It’s not appropriate for us to be going down this road,” said Director Sandra Miller.

By: Clinton

Clinton is a Biology/Ecology major at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a conservative Democrat, a progressive Roman Catholic, and a long-distance runner. His passions include science, nature, and politics. He was born and raised in the great state of Pennsylvania and named after President Bill Clinton. Strong, black coffee keeps him going everyday!