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Global Warming Book for Seventh-Graders Recalled by Michigan Math and Science Center

Seventh Grade Book on Global Warming Recalled by Michigan Math and Science Center

A progressive children’s book lauding Al Gore as an “eco-hero,” and offers kids suggestions on global warming activism, has been recalled by the Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center — but only after the book had been included in science kits marketed to 35 Michigan school districts for use in their seventh-grade curriculum.

“This book makes sweeping statements” unfounded in science, BCAMSC Director Connie Duncan said Thursday. “We want to be sure the information we send out is 100 percent correct to the best of our knowledge.”

But doesn’t a book titled, “A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids,” that urges children to become activists, raise doubt about its bias and factual accuracy in the first place? Why would such material be distributed to Michigan seventh-graders at all?

The author is Washington State resident Julie Hall, a self-described poet and co-founder of ProgressiveKids, “a planet-friendly” online company.

MLive.com reports:

The book holds up Al Gore as an “eco-hero;” promotes organizations such as Greenpeace and Rainforest Alliance; urges children to persuade their parents to “Vote Green” and buy organic; cautions against new-home construction, the plastics industry and conventional agriculture, and notes “many people believe that it is best for the earth for families to have no more than one child.”

As reported in the Kalamazoo Gazette Sunday, the Michigan Farm Bureau complained a few weeks ago that the 88-page book, “A Hot Planet needs Cool Kids,” pushes an inaccurate take on modern agriculture, both by including erroneous information based on opinion rather than science and by failing to include information about ways that agricultural practices can help combat climate change.

Now BCAMSC is contacting schools and teachers, “any way we could get hold of them,” regarding the dubious material included in the seventh-grade kits intended to teach children about climate change.

“We wouldn’t have pulled the book” just because Farm Bureau objected, Duncan said, “but we will review (a book) because someone disagrees with it.”

Duncan stated the review of A Hot Planet revealed that, although “this book has some wonderful things in it, it also has some things in it that are not appropriate. There are some other pieces in there that are not based on fact.”

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  • Qoheleth
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:35pm

    “This book makes sweeping statements” unfounded in science, BCAMSC Director Connie Duncan said Thursday. “We want to be sure the information we send out is 100 percent correct to the best of our knowledge.”
    My advice, to make sure it’s 100 percent correct, is to shred the copies and use them for compost. Anything that posits man-made warming is suspect at this point. Actual scientific evidence points to CO2 levels rising _after_ temperatures and that at the higher temperatures, more heat is also escaping into space. This punches a massive hole into CO2 (and consequent trapped heat, thus the term “greenhouse gas”) being the culprit. If it’s not CO2, it’s not industry either.

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:20pm

      It is a disgrace that Michigan Dept. of Education tried to peddle this piece of trash to the school systems. I am glad they wised up!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:18pm

      NO surprise here .. they were also on the “cutting edge” of promoting “esteem” when kids had done nothing to earn it — best thing I ever did for my son was pull him out of Michigan Public Schools and send him to a Catholic High School (we are not Catholic but it was the best school in the area) … he went on to College (not state but private) and a career.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:28pm

      Darwin’s theory of evolution did not claim that man evolved from apes. Anti-religion types made that leap themselves and just use Darwin’s work to try to justify the idea.

      Teaching evolution is not only okay, it’s essential. There is no disputing that evolution happens. The only dispute is whether evolution is how man came to be, but that’s irrelevant. There shouldn’t be a single word in any textbook about ape->man evolution or creationism. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to support either stance, and in primary eduction it’s the job of schools to provide students with the tools to investigate theories themselves, not indocrinate them with a theory as if it’s fact.

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    • jollylama
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:34pm

      “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” – al manpig’s hero

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:39pm

      Rowgue- What on earth are you talking about? Did you READ the article about a book that is full of lies & opinions about global warming before putting your odd comment about Darwin here?

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:18am

      @ Rowgue
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:28pm

      Darwin’s theory of evolution did not claim that man evolved from apes. Anti-religion types made that leap themselves and just use Darwin’s work to try to justify the idea.

      Teaching evolution is not only okay, it’s essential. There is no disputing that evolution happens. The only dispute is whether evolution is how man came to be, but that’s irrelevant. There shouldn’t be a single word in any textbook about ape->man evolution or creationism. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to support either stance, and in primary eduction it’s the job of schools to provide students with the tools to investigate theories themselves, not indocrinate them with a theory as if it’s fact.
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      My good Lord but you’re stupid.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:25am

      @ CatB
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:18pm

      NO surprise here .. they were also on the “cutting edge” of promoting “esteem” when kids had done nothing to earn it — best thing I ever did for my son was pull him out of Michigan Public Schools and send him to a Catholic High School (we are not Catholic but it was the best school in the area) … he went on to College (not state but private) and a career.
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      For the first years of my life I was raised a Southern Baptist, until my father tired of the clownish garbage being peddled as education in public schools. Emphasis was on the idiocy of evolution that only a true moron lacking gray matter could believe in. Uniformity is not only unprovable, but most experts have declared it as dead as what spontaneous generation was proven to be close to a century and a half ago. Goulds (the ghoul of harvard “mis” education) punctuated equilibrium is the most lame brained insult to the intellect of man that anyone trying to peddle it should first feel shame before strapped in a white coat and tossed into an insane asylum.

      I congratulate you on having the intestinal fortitude to save your son.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:58am

      Yeah sure..and I am sure that the illegals and Muslims will abide by that one child per family rule.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:06am

      @DONTBOTHERME

      I was responding to another post. The site hosed up and put my response under an entirely different post.

      @MY10THAMENDMENT

      I’ve already pointed out to the other guy that my response erroneously got put in the wrong place by the site, but please feel free to actually point out what you think was stupid. I won’t be holding my breath for a response.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:50am

      Rowgue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:06am
      @MY10THAMENDMENT

      I’ve already pointed out to the other guy that my response erroneously got put in the wrong place by the site, but please feel free to actually point out what you think was stupid. I won’t be holding my breath for a response.
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      At what point does teaching lies ever become useful, much less essential? The “theory” of evolution defies every principle of addressing the quest for scientific truth. If the first premise is wrong, the rest becomes an inductive fallacy. Every thing in the Cosmos will have the exact same elements, including the building blocks of amino acids, proteins, mRNA, etc, but they won’t all share sameness after point of creation. When God created through the Word every thing that is, it had and remains to have a distinctness to allow for each species to perpetuate itself. The genome of the DNA simply won’t allow a marriage of genes.

      Biology is a legitimate field, but it has a limitation back to trace DNA. We know for certain that Darwins warm pond speculation has fallen thru along with spontaneous generation, making evolution by natural selection not only wrong, but preposterous.

      Evolution is a lie from the beginning, and only carried on now to serve the quest for dollars. Nothing more.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:17am

      They should fine whomever green lighted this book for the school system and have them removed asap. Then they should be brought up on charges for corruption of our educational system.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:24am

      Hey rowgue,
      Evolution was the atheist darwin’s spin on adaptation. Yes creatures evolve and life finds a way to continue as a result of changes in enviroment. Thus evolution isn’t constant as darwin theorized.
      Darwin’s observation actually proves intelligent design more that it disproves creationism. It’s only those who want to disprove creationism that take that objective view point.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:24am

      ATTENTION ROMNEY SUPPORTERS……….Romney believes in this crap! RINO.

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    • kmichaels
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:51am

      [Rowgue
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:28pm
      Darwin’s theory of evolution did not claim that man evolved from apes. Anti-religion types made that leap themselves and just use Darwin’s work to try to justify the idea.

      Teaching evolution is not only okay, it’s essential. There is no disputing that evolution happens. The only dispute is whether evolution is how man came to be, but that’s irrelevant. There shouldn’t be a single word in any textbook about ape->man evolution or creationism. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to support either stance,]

      Here is why people have issues with evolution. Somebody like you supports it. Somebody that comes across as either a liar or completely misinformed about your own supported theory makes thoughtful people wonder if all evolutionists are as stupid as you are.

      Now mind you, I am not for or against evolution. But I am against stupid misinformed people like you.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:07am

      Maybe someone can explain something to me. There have been several mass extinctions of life on on earth. In two cases, the “K-T“ extinction and the ”Permo-Triassic” extinction, it’s estimated that 90% of species disappeared. Fossils of a given species are found before the events, but none afterward. Yet today every conceivable niche on earth is filled with life.

      Does God continously create new species as other ones die out?

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Once again for all the complete idiots out there that can’t seperate actual evolution science from the theory that evolution is how man descended from apes.

      I don’t believe man evolved from apes. There is absolutely no evidence to support such a theory. You are confusing the teaching of a proven scientific phenomenon with the yahoos that want to pervert that into something they think supports their anti-religion dogma.

      Even if I did believe that I wouldn’t want it taught in schools as proven fact, because it isn’t. As I said in the first post I made, there shouldn’t be a word in any textbook referring to the origins of man whatsoever. But please continue. You obviously didn’t even read what I wrote because you went off in a blind rage as soon as you saw the word evolution. Just as predictable and robotic as the genius protesters.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Rowgue, you are correct. There is no evidence that man descended from apes. It’s equally true that no evolutionist from Darwin to today has ever claimed man descended from apes.

      Another solid truth is this: if some says something about man descending from apes, then that person doesn’t understand a thing about evolution.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:35pm

      @ jzs
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:07am

      Maybe someone can explain something to me. There have been several mass extinctions of life on on earth. In two cases, the “K-T“ extinction and the ”Permo-Triassic” extinction, it’s estimated that 90% of species disappeared. Fossils of a given species are found before the events, but none afterward. Yet today every conceivable niche on earth is filled with life.

      Does God continously create new species as other ones die out?
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      Before man, God wasn’t involved with the natural progression of life on earth. His direct involvement only began when He, through the Word created the world out of chaos and fashioned it as His Garden for His created being man to rule over. The Serpent too was cast down onto the earth. There’s nothing evolutionary about life prior to, nor after God made the world out of chaos. All species has remained with-in it’s own genome, and no amount of splicing can alter it. They have tried. The only successful change in natural traits is when the sons of God (fallen angels) went in unto the daughters of men.

      Sorry but the extinctions of life on earth have nothing to do with evolution by natural selection or otherwise.

      DNA is a declaration of Gods glory and omniscient power. If you understood Edenic language things would be easier for you.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:46pm

      @ jzs
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Rowgue, you are correct. There is no evidence that man descended from apes. It’s equally true that no evolutionist from Darwin to today has ever claimed man descended from apes.

      Another solid truth is this: if some says something about man descending from apes, then that person doesn’t understand a thing about evolution
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      Darwins 2 step is what that’s known as. As a naturalist Darwin declared that all of life began from a shared common ancestor. The entire problem with this quacks theory is that it is not possible to test in any form. Uniformity is hilariously void of connecting proof. It‘s equal to you or me putting a rock with the basic building blocks of life in it in the basement and stating that’s how life began, and sometime in eons distant will prove me right. PREPOSTEROUS and no science at all. Punctuated Equilibrium is the fallacy concocted by Gould at Harvard when it was known that uniformity had failed. Without uniformity E by NS falls like a house of cards. Goulds theory, also untestable and therefore not scientific pursuit for truth, was modern mans logical fallacy known as a strawman.

      I suggest that you know nothing about this puesdo science you seem enthralled by.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:53pm

      @ Rowgue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Once again for all the complete idiots out there that can’t seperate actual evolution science from the theory that evolution is how man descended from apes.

      I don’t believe man evolved from apes. There is absolutely no evidence to support such a theory. You are confusing the teaching of a proven scientific phenomenon with the yahoos that want to pervert that into something they think supports their anti-religion dogma.

      Even if I did believe that I wouldn’t want it taught in schools as proven fact, because it isn’t. As I said in the first post I made, there shouldn’t be a word in any textbook referring to the origins of man whatsoever. But please continue. You obviously didn’t even read what I wrote because you went off in a blind rage as soon as you saw the word evolution. Just as predictable and robotic as the genius protesters.
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      Absolutely FALSE. Biological Science does not need a “theory” of evolution for itself to be a valid science. What evolution and evolution by natural selection requires is a leap of faith. That makes it not science, but a religion. Biology is predicated of experiential truth that can be a repeated result. Even the bonds with-in the DNA of the animal kingdom declare the glory of God.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:28pm

      While they are at it, they can throw away the public school history books too…I’m personally tired of hearing about the big bad white man!

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  • rangerp
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:23pm

    “We want to be sure the information we send out is 100 percent correct to the best of our knowledge.”

    If that is the case, then they would do well to get rid of the books with evolution.

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    • countrygirl
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:45pm

      So true, the final nail in the coffin was the elucidation of the specified complexity of the DNA molecule, it’s just been a very long funeral. To say that the vast amount of information evolved by chance is ludicrous and so dark ages.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:55pm

      @rangerp
      Think on this my good RangerP friend and let me know what you think. This is an original thought from me that I’ve been considering since 1990. “Evolution IS an Intelligent Design”. Is it possible that both sides have it wrong and God or Life or whatever you want to call it has a 3rd meaning? Could God create Evolution and make it part of His Plan? Darwin might be wrong but the Preachers might have it wrong also. And yes, I’m really a Monk, who has been asking serious questions for the past 25 years. Think about it and let me know. I value your thoughts on the matter.

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:55pm

      If men evolved from apes

      then why are there still apes around?

      GTFO 2012 ;)

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:13pm

      @Sy Kosys
      If the Earth evolved from the Solar System then why is there still a Solar System?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:20pm

      @Tractorboy
      Go swimming in the Ocean and find out who is at “the top of the food chain”. It all depends upon what environment you are in. In the Ocean we are low. In Florida, in the summer, swimming in lakes, you can get a little parasite in your ear that goes to your brain and renders you helpless. Top of the food chain…. I don’t think so.

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    • Tractorboy
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:29pm

      The-Monk
      Love you man, if I bring the proper equipment to the sea as I have gone scuba diving,
      with a spear gun or wet suit I do rise to the top of the food chain,your being silly you know
      what I meant.

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:36pm

      tap the brakes, Monk

      its called tongue-in-cheek….nice try though ;)

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:55pm

      @Sy Kosys
      No, you raised a valid point and I countered with a valid question. No tougue-in-cheek here. Got an answer or are you just posting-for-fun?

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:16am

      No monk, *I* was making the tongue-in-cheek comment, not you. You countered with a ‘valid point’ ? Hardly. Why do we still have a galaxy then, if the solar system evolved from it? Or a universe for that matter?

      Please, you’re making a rather obtuse counterpoint, but i digress.

      Here’s another tongue-in-cheek’er for ya…if #2 pencils are so popular, why are they still #2?

      Lighten up Hoss, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…or are you posting just to puff your chest out?

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    • mharry860
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:23am

      Monk it’s impossible that we evolved from apes, because if we did , their would be something in between., it’s too big of a jump. There would be a sub-human, but not ape. Darwin has been proven wrong and he admitted it. The reason we’re at the top of the food chain is because of our brain, not our strength.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:31am

      Which came first, the chicken or the egg says a lot about the idea of intelligent design vs psuedo science known as evolution.

      We know that the chicken came first. Not from a religious perspective, but from a biological science perspective.

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38238685/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:02am

      @mharry860
      I never said we evolved from apes.

      @Sy Kosys
      Exactly my point; about galaxies and such. And #2 pencils are #2 pencils because of a standard of measurement. They are #1 in use because of the paper we made and the tools for measuring the graphite on the paper. Sorry that I’m not here for fun… I’m looking for real answers to real questions. We have serious problems and I’m looking for serious people for future contacts. You failed that test.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:08am

      @The10thAmendment
      “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Answer… neither.

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    • gdbhusker
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:30am

      @monk…..first there was nothing, and then it exploded? out of the nothingness large quantities of carbon were fused together ( randomly of course) and formed the known galaxy. as heat ( from nothing) extended outward it defied the first law of thermal dynamics for the first and only time EVER, and continued to grow hotter. planets were formed and on one in particular, a cosmic sludge condensed and evaporated millions of time to end with sea water. some of the sea water still held carbon material that went no where else in the vast arrays of the universe but to this third rock,and formed primordial soup. Now that all the ingredients were in the mix….ALL life sprang from this soup…plant and animal, and over billions of years of trial and error..we reach 2011!….or a loving God..all powerful and all creative..set out to fashion a place where he could show his love and majesty..He created us in HIS image, and gave us all the things we would need for survival… One single cell ameba is more complex than ANY known computer, machine, or fantasy of science fiction..I would say that randomness and Darwinian theoretics are for the intellectually arrogant who cannot humble themselves to say the words..” I don’t know”… peace be upon you.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:05am

      @The-Monk
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:08am

      @The10thAmendment
      “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Answer… neither.
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      ROTFLMAO Sorry but Spontaneous Generation was proven wrong more than 120 years ago. Warm pond, electromagnetic inter-action (primordial soup) to excite elements to “become”, is even sillier than evolution by natural selection. Biological science has already proven that the chicken came before the egg, and it is be sciences own admission to be impossible for it to be otherwise.

      There are only 2 possibilities for life. 1. Man arose from spontaneous generation. 2. Intelligent design. Uniformity was disproved long ago and itself defies the necessity of empirical evidence for scientific truth. Just as Goulds theory of punctuated equilibrium requires that same “leap of faith”. It leaves only 1 answer why the continuation of the fraud of the psuedo science of E by NS. As always it goes back to “follow the money honey”.

      Evolution becomes the religion of secular humanists.

      This topic, global warming is even more absurd. It wasn’t built on real data, it was built on vain imagination modeling. ie Numbers plugged in which were never real data, to achieve a predetermined outcome, for 1 purpose alone. Again, follow the money honey.

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:31am

      Oh no….I failed your test….woe is me…..damn….however will i sleep at nite….

      “Tongue-in-cheek is a phrase used as a figure of speech to imply that a statement or other production is humorously intended and it should not be taken at face value. ”

      So now WHO is making mountains out of molehills? LOL (oh snap! sorry i didnt mean to laugh, or even REMOTELY imply any sense of joviality, after all, you’re not here for mere games. Gosh, thank you ever so much for sucking humor up into your vacuum, now back to bidness). How quaint that you are now the humor-police here. Please, do continue such a lofty internet career…

      “Sorry that I’m not here for fun… I’m looking for real answers to real questions”

      Fine. You‘re ’The-Monk’ and studying for 25years blah blah (egregious chest-puffing)….

      CAN YOU PROVE GOD?

      Got a photo? Where’s her DNA sample? Autograph? How about a credit card receipt?

      FFS you just cant leave well enuff alone huh…SURE we have serious problems, SURE the world is going to hades in a handbasket and we’re running out of wicker, SURE there is turmoil across the lands of the earth… WTF do you think we’re all doing here?

      BUT

      All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

      LIGHTEN THE HELL (oops) UP

      Good grief man

      I’ll formally ask your permission to make a humorous statement later on…i feel so horrible for failing your test…my bad

      Go ahead and continue to pigeon-hole….seems to be working well for you

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    • MrGeek
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Sy Kosys,
      You should have said “who’s evolving a mountain from a mole hill” ;)

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:21pm

      “If men evolved from apes

      then why are there still apes around?”

      Of course, we understand that Darwinism doesn’t propose that we evolved from the ape species we see now but that we and they both eveolved from a common ancestor, an ancestor that we would probably see as rather more like an ape than like us, hense the confusion.

      But the relevant question to evolutionists is: If we evolved from proto-hominids, why are there not still proto-hominids somewhere in existence? Why don’t we see far more fossil evidence of them? We see lots of evidence of human beings everywhere. It seems like every theorized evolutionary link species dies out so that there are no more living links. Or rather it’s like species keep evolving so that they bnever stay the same. But if that were true we should see some form of possitive mutative process within species NOW. But that is precisiely what we DON’T see. We only THEORIZE about it. Actual mutations never are possitive changes and are not additions to or changes in the genetic code. Mutations represent CORRUPTIONS in the genetic code of every species, like that cyclops shark.

      The real problem with Evolution whether it happened in the past but whether it actually happens NOW, and HOW it could happen. What is the biological mechanism that creates and sustains it?

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:18pm

      @ mharry860
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:23am

      Monk it’s impossible that we evolved from apes, because if we did , their would be something in between., it’s too big of a jump. There would be a sub-human, but not ape. Darwin has been proven wrong and he admitted it. The reason we’re at the top of the food chain is because of our brain, not our strength.
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      I’m not sure that Darwin ever actually admitted that he was wrong, but his theory was preposterous from the beginning. Evolutionists hide behind micro and macro evolution, aka uniformity and punctuated equilibrium and say AHA when Biology shows there are similarities between the shared elements with-in genomes. My response to that, isn’t AHA, but, yeah, and???? Just like in thermodynamics we know that there’s something that bonds positively charged electrons (should repel each other) yet they remain in a constant state held together by a measurable bond which we call a gluon for lack of a tangible expression, mans DNA is held together by an unseen bond that can be measured, but not expressed.

      If we explode an atom a curious thing occurs. It replicates exact copies of itself without fail, and those atoms never change except replication, no mutation.

      The very complexity of base elements precludes evolution

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:21pm

    If you aren’t feeling ill already, take a look at the web site maintained by the author, Progressive Kids. It is a super nova of left-think. What is frightening, is that these people have not only procreated, they are influencing other people’s children. The BCAMSC ought to be hounded from their offices by responsible parents.

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:37am

      The most powerful strategy ever conceived by those attempting to install Communism in the United States was their choice to overtake the educational system. Those at the Frankfurt School were very, very smart, and now we’re left with an educational system that is completely communist, IMO.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:21pm

    If Florida can stop people from handing out the US Constitution, surely Michigan can stop global warning!!!

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:20pm

    These kids now deserve a field trip to Hawaii Kilauea Volcano without sun block and report on their experience.

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  • L-man
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:20pm

    Oh by the by did you know that Romney believes in “man made” global warming ???????
    Romney Rhino believes in MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    bwhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaaa what an idiot!
    Whats that I hear….why it’s the Cain train !!!! get on board !

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:57pm

      Im not voting Romney PERIOD…and this was before his stance on ‘climate change’

      I swear, if the establishment puts this artard up as the GOP nominee, Im voting Obama

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    • Goldenyears22
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:25pm

      I guess that means more solar panals from China and American bankrupt companies getting handouts if Romney gets in.

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    • Tractorboy
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:59pm

      It is sad he believes in man made gobal warming, has any body asked him what he believed
      in the 70-80′s when they the gov. told us we were headed for a Ice-age, just for fun what
      does he think about bran muffins or coffee or atv’s
      God bless you all

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:33am

      Yeah, Chris Christie also beleives in Glow-ball warming. Glad he’s out of the race. Cain get’s my vote for now.

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    • gdbhusker
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:18am

      Cain is a puppet just like the rest of the traditional republican nominees. He is , was, and always be a federal reserve guy. In the debate he said Ron Paul falsely accused him, and mis-quoted him…..that was an absolute LIE! and 9-9-9 is ON TOP OF WHAT YOU ALREADY PAY!!!! they will not end the current system..only add an additional tax to make YOU and I pay for the FEDS derivative losses! Cain says that if we want to know what happens at the fed, then just go down to our local branch and ask? If you try, you will be greeted by private police and escorted away..they ARE THE NEW WORLD ORDER!! and Cain is THEIR GUY!!!

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  • love the kids
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:20pm

    There is such a thing as global warming, or we would still be in an ice-age. The difference is that the earth came out of an ice-age all by itself. But how could the earth warm without man. Today, Al Bore thinks that ONLY man’s actions can warm the globe. My question is that if the earth is hundres of thousands of years old, how can anyone say what the earths average temp is with only about 100 years of data. Mabey the earths average temp is 130 degrees but the ice at the poles have been keeping it cold. Gore couldn’t even figure how to keep his wife, but he knows what is best for us.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:52am

      Water is the main trigger for the earth to grow warm, and recede over periods of time. Carbon molecules are essential as food sources that enable sustaining all of life. The more carbon the better the food source output for consumption. Reduce it and the population starves itself. The truth is that carbon in the atmosphere has gone up a grand total of .03% in the last century and a half. Oxygen and nitrogen made up the majority of molecules in our air. Water vapor is also the most reflective gas that acts as the main catalyst for the appearance for the processional warming periods in earths history.

      Carbon exchange is the concoction of money hungry people trying to gather wealth. It’s the TRUE definition of what a ponzi scheme is.

      Man has had no significant affect on global warming is our entire time dwelling on this rock. Other animals have caused more effects.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:19pm

    PARENTS~~~ On your toes. At the school. In their faces. In the libraries. Check it out. If you don’t approve of it, get your child out of there asap OR turn that school inside out, bottom (parents) coming up against the soul dead administration and get the heart (the kids) back into LEARNING how to THINK.

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    • Discord
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:12pm

      PARENTS BEWARE!

      Of the terror that is..dun dun duunnnnn…
      SCIENCE
      Which is, by definition constantly changing because we are constantly learning. If you don’t think something is set in stone, don’t discredit it as nonsense. It’s our current knowledge, as correct as we can see so far. It can only become more accurate as we learn.

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    • gdbhusker
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:44am

      @discord……..is this the same basis that allowed scientist to tell the schools that the “ theory of evolution” was now the fact of evolution? I am no scientist, but I do remember reading in a book..that a theory was not proven… and then..the matter of “global warming, that became “climate change”. wasn’t the science settled? why do they keep changing it??is it because they are still learning , as you stated? or are they simply trying to make all the inconsistent data fit into a “theory” that they want? if we allow global warming books into the classroom, it should sit on the desk next to the bible. The Bible is far more accurate than any science book…..peace.

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    • Discord
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:59am

      Please learn the difference between ‘theory’ and ‘hypothesis’.

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    • Discord
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:01am

      Also, the basis of science is that it changes it‘s views based on what’s observed. It’s not trying to fit anything.

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    • Discord
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:02am

      Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:16am

      @ Discord
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:59am

      Please learn the difference between ‘theory’ and ‘hypothesis’.
      ————————————————————————————————————————————————
      The problem with that is the type of “theory” required for evolution is a known answer. IMPOSSIBLE

      The new age gambit for Sciences religion of faith is to throw out a chunk of nonsense and hope that someday someone will build evidence to meet it. Micro and macro evolution are stated as though they were truth, but the only truth in either theory is that it’s untestable. That’s called a circular fallacy underpinned by strawmen. ie Inductive fallacy.

      Evolution in it’s various forms are a ponzi scheme. Just like global warming/climate change.

      I love watching the NOVA programs and the other various programs when they encounter a problem. They always say, well we’re not sure exactly how “X” comes about, but we’re sure that it did! They dress it up in pretty lace trimmed dresses and put a happy face on it. Doesn’t matter, a pig is still a pig, and a lie is still a lie.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:19am

      @ Discord
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:02am

      Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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      Evolution is a lie based on the lack of observable empirical evidence, so that research dollars can justify some deranged God hating perverts delusions.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:18pm

    Man made global warming is a hoax designed to make Al gore a billionaire,Gore is committing fraud on every human being, he knows he‘s a fraud that’s why he won’t debate anyone on the topic.The public schools have been indoctrinating kids for years with the myth of man made global warming.Progressives have evil intent and their ultimate goal is to end capitalism, and they have a friend in the white house.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:11pm

      When I went to school we had sports people with “letters”. A 3 letterman participated in three sports. Gore should be a 6 letterman… P,R,I,S,O,N. Along with BHO and the rest of his marxist commie crew.

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  • Beckaj
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:12pm

    Well it’s a start that one of these books got recalled.

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  • ScreaminEagle
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

    Michigan? You mean the Michigan in the USA? OK something is up what’s the punch line?

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  • 4truth2all
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

    When Al Bore is called a hero there’s nothing cool bout that.

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:07pm

    Al Gore is the only reason for any global warming, if he would shut up the hot air would go away

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:22pm

      Global warming is BS of course. And we, as a country, want grade school children to decide the truth for themselves. So, yes, it should be taught, right next to intelligent design. The Earth is only 5000 years old, humans lived with dinosaurs, carbon dating is a liberal lie, pollution doesn’t harm humans or the environment and that big companies never have and never would dump stuff in the water supply that would give your kid or you cancer or pump carcinogens in the air. We should be teaching that God would never allow any industrial activity to harm humans because we know he promised never to destroy the earth again.

      We should be teaching real science, the science Rush Limbaugh knows is true, the science and history that Glenn Beck knows is true, not all that crap that liberal, elite so called “intellectuals” are trying to cram down peoples throats. In that way, and only in that way, will the United States regain it’s status as the world leader in science!

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:59pm

      You know I think JZS is on to something with his condescension, after all why shouldn’t we trust the SCIENCE! community. Why in all their flawless wisdom they have miraculously saved us from nuclear reactors burning holes into the center of the earth (China Syndrome) averted a second ice age (global cooling) prevented a catastrophic nuclear war but not of course through that wacky Reagan’s Star Wars defense system after all that was just silly, and of course they single handedly saved the island of Guam from sinking under the weight of all the extra troops. Our great masters of infallible SCIENCE! save all us poor stupid masses, we can’t possibly begin to comprehend all the wonderful things your big brains can contain, have mercy on us poor Neanderthals and stop us from giving the planet a fever!

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  • PoliticiansRCrooks
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:04pm

    There is no such thing as global warming!!!!!

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:01pm

    Al Gore – sweaty “crazed-sex-poodle” and billionaire eco-scammer; what a great “hero” for children.

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:01pm

    Duncan stated the review of A Hot Planet revealed that, although “this book has some wonderful things in it, it also has some things in it that are not appropriate. There are some other pieces in there that are not based on fact.”

    Those pesky little facts….That really shouldn’t bother them, after all it‘s Al’s inconvienient truth. A man who wouldn’t know truth if it bit him on the as@…

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  • Riponpundit
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:58pm

    The area I live has had at least mile high sheets of ice at least 10 times. Man was not responsible for the cooling that caused them or the warming that melted them. And the book is outdated, there has been no increase in overall global temps in 15 years.

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  • WylE
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:54pm

    Obviously, they had to distribute the book before they could read it.

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  • WylE
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:53pm

    I don’t know why people are so concerned with what is being taught in our public schools. The children don’t learn anything there anyway.

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  • NotaLemming
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:53pm

    And look this is how they try to indoctrinate the kids. This is one of Glenn Becks early villians from Crime Inc. Joel Rogers. check out what this freak has to say. This is really sinister folks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEE9TNzmpw

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:52pm

    Pure evil propaganda. Burn all these books.

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  • majorsco
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:49pm

    This book is a travesty of truth. Holding up Al Gore as a hero automatically makes it a fraud! If the book, used as a text book, is full of inaccurate information, then it should be pulled immediately for that reason alone. The Gore stuff just makes it a laughable matter.

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  • MaxineH20Sux
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:47pm

    It is really important that as parents we know what are children’s books at school are. If you don’t know, then ask the teachers at a parent-teacher conference to see the books. I plan on doing this in 2 weeks at my kids conferences.

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    • chips1
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:08pm

      Why do you think the progressives are winning? It’s because 90% of their vote came from families that only have one parent and a majority can‘t even tell you their father’s name. It’s the base of their voting block. They are taught the plantation mentality from birth and God forbid they should succeed in life like Cain. Cain is called every name in the book because he proves the lies of the Libs. It’s going to get worse. Cain in 2012!!!!!

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:47pm

    Not based on fact? How did that happen? Forgive the sarcastic thought.

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  • I Love Howie Carr
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:44pm

    7th graders need books with illustrations? I guess the dumbing-down is working.

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    • cripplecreek
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:52pm

      Wouldn’t work with me. I grew up rural and know manure when I see it.

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