NASA Targets ‘Climate Kids’ With New Global Warming Website
- Posted on January 24, 2011 at 9:12pm by
Meredith Jessup
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NASA, the government agency that put a man on the moon and sent robots to Mars, is turning its focus around and working on spreading information among the public about the earth’s apparent impending doom. A new agency website dubbed “Climate Kids” has “NASA’s eyes on the earth.”
The website specifically targets young kids with games, movies and other interactive tools that present debated theories as facts. For instance:
Additionally, the website tells kids that dinosaurs are in their gas tanks and that polar bears are dying as a result. ClimateQuotes.com reports:
These are obviously two very contentious points with only one side presented. First, they claim that:
The planet is warming up fast–faster than at any time scientists know about from their studies of Earth’s entire history.
This is flatly untrue. Remember this graphic from the BBC Phil Jones interview?
The trend of recent warming is practically identical to two previous trends. Their second claim, “Humans are causing this warming” is made without bothering to allude to any uncertainty. Even the IPCC only gives a 90% and says ‘very likely’. Saying “It is very likely that humans are causing this warming” at least lets the little tykes know it isn’t an absolute scientific fact (because it isn’t).
The site also tackles issues like the greenhouse effect, effects on wildlife (like the polar bear), ocean acidification, and offers kids advice to answer the question, “What can we do to help?”
NASA recommends kid plant trees to help save the planet and shows a picture of First Lady Michelle Obama doing her part.
The site also encourages kids to get their parents to buy new CFL light bulbs and purchase reusable grocery bags to cut down on waste. (The picture of the suggested reusable bag is quite telling, no?)
“Climate Kids” also suggests kids do simple things like save water, unplug “electricity vampires” and ride a bike instead of taking a car.
But if kids want to make a real difference, NASA recommends they grow up to work in a “green career.”
You can help to solve climate change problems and challenges. These are the exciting careers of the future. They range from designing satellites for NASA to fixing wind-energy generators to planning drought-tolerant landscapes for homes and parks. Many of the possible careers haven’t even been thought of yet. You could invent your own career!
The “Climate Kids” website also has a designated section for educators where NASA offers “climate-related activities for the classroom“ and ”resources on climate change” from the U.S. Department of Education.
ClimateQuotes asks the obvious question: “Why do we need federal agencies to create programs which educate children about climate change?”
Even if we ignore that question and accept the role of federal agencies as educators, we still are left with a completely one-sided presentation. There is no mention in the NASA site of uncertainties. There is practically no timescale presented to give context. The site urges children to pick certain ‘green’ careers over others. The positives of renewable energy are praised, with no mention of the drawbacks. Whether or not you believe this site should even exist (with taxpayer funding), certainly we can all agree the issues presented need to be balanced. There is no balance on the NASA Climate Kids website. I’d wager that if all references to NASA were removed, the site would be indistinguishable from an environmentalist site.
Good use of taxpayer dollars? You decide.
On a related note, using kids to spread talking points on climate change and a new “green”-driven economy is not new. 1Sky Campaign, an organization supported by a number environmentalist “allies” such as former President Bill Clinton and former White House green jobs czar Van Jones, has also used children to highlight its own political message:
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Comments (163)
ThoreauHD
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:42pmWe can’t put a man in space, but we can live in a cave and eat shrubbery. Way to devolve NASA.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:40pmI just noticed what the bag says: “My reusable bag makes me better than you”????!!!! IF I EVER SEE A CHILD (or anyone else) CARRYING SUCH A BAG I WOULD GENTLY EXPLAIN THAT NO ONE IS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE & SAYING SUCH A THING IS IGNORANT, RUDE & SNOBBISH. grrrrrrrrr
Report Post »proudamerican1990
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:39pmthey want us to use those fluorescent light bulbs that have mercury in them
Report Post »GetUpOnTheWheel
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:37pmThey just don’t give up do they. They know we are wise to them..so double down and indoctrinate the kids.
I usually don’t post links here..but I check this site out at least a few times a week Best source I’ve found for keeping up on the junk the Warming Alarmists spew. It’s an anti-global warming site run by Marc Morano. http://www.climatedepot.com/
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:34pmSo, when Obama‘s NASA isn’t “reaching out” to muslim terrorists, they are lying to children with fabricated climate “science” – that’s nice. I guess they have given up on any space-related activity completely now. It is time to de-fund NASA until we elect a real president again.
Report Post »Lucifers Hammer
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:33pmAnyone find it slightly ironic that the “green” movement is just chromatic cover for the communist reds? Their true goal for a green world is to see the rivers run red with the blood of all capitalists and to depopulate the planet…with the exception of their own kind.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:39pmEPIC book and screen name!
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:30pmWhat a load of crap!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:29pmOMGosh! This is why the Obama administration took over NASA! This is a crock… did I hear a young girl use the words this will be dismissed as a socialist hoax? Can you say indoctrination propaganda lies?!!! What the he–! They even have the actor children spouting lies about our representatives, the oil spill, co2, etc… I don’t see one iota of truth in any of this.
Scientists have already come out & proven that this is a hoax…that the figures used to come up with this theory were predicated on falsehoods on purpose?
How old is this propaganda? They better not be teaching this crud in schools now… not that the truth is known.
We must take our schools back from the government!
Report Post »FedupinFlorida2
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:25pmAnd so goes Nasa…………..further and further off course. Huston we have a problem,we think it’s in Washington D.C.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:24pmLeave our kids alone. NASA is a joke. It is just more brainwashing that the progressives have mastered. Then they turn around and claim that FOX and the conservatives are the ones who brainwash. Unbelievable.
Report Post »Hmschlmom
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:22pmSo, I guess indoctrination of kids is OK…just as long as it isn’t religious in nature, that is! God forbid! :-)
Report Post »jagr1850
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:13pmguess obumma will need to appoint a MOTHER NATURE CZAR !!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:55pmWill NASA be running un man DRONES to become BARRYS NEW GREEN POLICE? This is absolutly discusting our tax money for PROPOGANDA.
Report Post »The Real Captain America
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:48pmPropaganda and indoctrination of kids!!!! Is it good to be aware of climate change… yes but Global Warming is a tool for political takeover in an aspect of our lives. This is not the America that I know and believe in.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:46pmUnbelievable to me that progressives are still pushing this crap!……And using our tax dollars to do it!!
Report Post »Thunderstorm 316
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:42pmThis is just sick! So basicaly human’s are a cancer to the earth, this is bullsh@#t! I want my taxes to quit going to NASA, A.S.A.P! Hey, if you boy‘s and girl’s at NASA are reading this let me remind you of somthing, it means NATIONAL AREONUATICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRION………..
Report Post »NO HARNESS ON MY BACK
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:40pmStrange, i thought space was the final frontier. apparently it’s indoctrination
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:36pmI think NASA is trying to let children know to be responsible and not pollute our planet and endanger our wildlife with Global Warming and Acid Rain.
How anyone can call the NAZI is beyond me.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:13pmthey are indoctrinating children with theory and speculation as though it were fact. do you not see a problem there?
Report Post »Texas49
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:14pmAbsolutely. Telling half truths and one sided viewpoints to small children who believe everything they hear has always worked out great for a society. When one political party in Europe taught their children about the superiority of the master race, it worked out really well for the world during the 30‘s and 40’s. It is not the message but the act of programming young minds that is so objectionable.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:37pmthe facts say, the earth has been getting warmer every year. whats speculative about that? this past year, was the highest climate temp on record. thats a fact. another fact. it has risen every year since we’ve measured. do a little math, what do you think will happen? what is the downside of taking better care of our planet, and telling our kids to do so? conservatives used to care about conservation. Texas, you are really comparing this to the master race? This is why you are stupid.
Report Post »Curioso
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:26pm@ Clive
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Report Post »Please have a look at the above link won’t change your mind because it is already made up but at least you can say you have researched the discussion.
etetetet
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:35pmTo easy to pick apart –
Report Post »On reusable bags – several stories like this:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/12/study-shows-reusable-bags-contain-high-levels-of-lead-content/
Hmschlmom
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:19pmNot to mention every disease on the planet…EIWWWW…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/06/whats-in-your-shopping-bag-bacteria-but-hey-its-natural.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/06/grocery_bags.html
Report Post »bobmontgomery
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:22pmand lots and lots of E-coli
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:24amYes . my ****** at the store said it is disgusting the bags people bring in .. I have some but I go out to the car and put the plastic store bags (which are soooo thin now!) into them with the grocerries just so that it is easier to take into the house without them breaking and even at that I have washable bags not those NASTY ones you get in the stores.
Report Post »mdc928
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:31pmWait I’m confused, I thought it was the republicans who were acting like Goebbles by saying the same lies over and over.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:28pmDidn’t NASA get the memo – their data on global warming (HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA), and others is spacejunk.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:26pmHow about NASA spend their time doing the space thing instead of pulling this garbage on the taxpayers dime. If this is their new “mission” then maybe we should start writing Congress to defund this troupe of clowns.
By the way, if it came out today that these reusable bags of dangerous levels of lead in them. As for the CFL lightbulbs, they should not be thrown out in the trash because they have high levels of mercury in them. If these light bulbs end up in a landfill they can contaminate the soil. So much for being green. The science boys at NASA are going to ruin the planet.
Report Post »BOONDOCK SAINT
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:25pmI can‘t believe they are using sharp pointed arrows in their diagrams and the word ’vampires’ in their rhetoric. Horrible!
Report Post »Hmschlmom
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:09pmA sharp pointed arrow? Eiw eiw eiw?
(Said with my best Python British accent)
It’s late…I’m gettin punchy
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:20amAnd showing Michelle planting her SLUDGE garden .. lol .. that worked out well … ROFL
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:09pmOh I still think the best part is the reusable “I’m better than you” bag. I smell a South Park Smug storm brewing. At least the environmentally conscious are admitting how they feel about us unwashed masses.
Report Post »baglady
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:05pmAnd the bag is made in China!!
Report Post »jackboydspeaksout
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:23pmNASA needs more money from the Feds. What a great way to get it. Promote the liberal lie. The truth doesn’t matter to these people. It’s all about money and power. Science has been hi-jacked by the liberals and will be slanted to prove what ever liberal crap that fits their agenda.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:41pmNASA…The people who shoot up all those rockets for the last 50 years spewing out their tails tons of pollutants.
Report Post »Now they see the light?
Since when are they concerned about that?
WhiteFang
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:56pmWhen you are funded by the government, you have to dance to their tune.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:33amGood point fang – according to thier “factual science”, I wonder how many polar bears were killed every time a shuttle took off?
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:14pmIf you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Report Post »Adolf Hitler
RobertCA
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:14pmPROPAGANDA USSR tell us Mr Science how to live .
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:20pmIsn’t this what the Classy Rep. from Tenn. was talking about, propaganda, Goerbels, Nazi’s? Pretty much the same thing, just replace the ZI with a SA and you have NASA. Aren’t these guys supposed to be replacing the space shuttle or something, oh yeah, Muslim outreach. ET, recycle. Or else.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:24pmCan’t wait to see how MASA spends our taxdollars to make ******* happy
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:25pmis NASA going left or they’ve just hired Al Gore ????????????????
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:33pmThis link was first posted a couple of days ago on another subject and I think that it is worth posting again under this heading. My apologies to the original poster if I have stolen your fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS8LA-5fmrs
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:38pmThe original poster was Sue Dohnim, I should have mentioned.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:52pmOh noooooooo… the goofy teddy bear was right
AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8r0Qvrl4Q
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 10:54pmPropaganda extroidinaire! NASA should be sued and be made to either prove global warming as fact or stop the endoctrination.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:09pmWE THE GENIUSES @ NASA after spending $19 Billion of your tax money discovered this :
Report Post »“Kids each time you turn on the lights in your bedroom , a polar bear dies”
Now can you give us more money for next year ? to continue with our discoveries .
Oh one more thing about Nasa & the muslim project , we can’t wait to tell you the great news , stay tuned !!!!!!!!!!!
Xcori8r
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:11pmWell they can’t shoot men into space anymore, they might as well just spew BS into the air.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:25pmWhat rubbish, brainwashed kids, propaganda. Yea, NASA what’s up ?
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:28pmhttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/24/easterbrook-on-the-magnitude-of-greenland-gisp2-ice-core-data/
this actual Reputable Science News Source should be a daily read people…
Report Post »AFVet_in_CO
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 11:30pmThe site lists the webmaster and site manager. The site manager is probably who we should sound off on to let her know what we think of this taxpayer funded propaganda machine.
Diane.K.Fisher@jpl.nasa.gov
Happy emailing!
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:01amRemember children that it is only the peasants that need to conserve. The prog elites have such important business to attend to. They need their limo’s and jets.The airports musn’t be cluttered up with the little people.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:33amWhere can the kids get the scientific info that says the Polar Bear population is booming? How much you want to bet they won’t learn about this little inconvenient truth.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:40amFirst we hear how the mission of NASA is to make muslims feel good about themselves.
Report Post »Now, in addition, NASA has to be a shill for the fake global warming money grab.
Hello, House Republicans? Are you looking for places to cut the budget?
NASA.
cheezwhiz
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:14amNow, in addition, NASA has to be a shill for the fake global warming money grab.
Hello, House Republicans? Are you looking for places to cut the budget?
NASA.
——
Its not just MASA.
DHS has jumped in too
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/12/17/napolitano-says-dhs-to-begin-battling-global-warming-as-homeland-security-issue/
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:19amI agree … so much for NASA … and I live in Florida .. have been out to the Cape … I love getting to talk to astronauts and scientists there … now I guess it will be all “climate change” … won’t waste another trip. That’s where I got the answer to my question .. why the double sonic boom when the space shuttle goes over my house before landing. I don’t want a lecture on phoney “climate change”. Glad I grew up when I did .. the time of Moon shots and real men.
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:50amGreen fool, leftist tool, brainwashed at progressive school!
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:10amI want them to cite evidence. I’m not happy with statements anymore. Give me data. I want to research it on my own. My oldest child is 20, youngest is 15. Proud to say not one of them buy this crap! Public education failed to suck in my kids. Family trumps all. Always. My kids have actual common sense. Don’t give up, your kids are watching. Always.
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:14amWOW!!!! i‘m glad i don’t have kids. I’d have to ban the internet…and school…and t.v…..thank god i don’t have a kid right now
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:33amCan you say BS………I thought child porn was illegal ?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:34amI lived in Houston near NASA and saw this coming a long time ago. Time to shut it down. I am so glad to be out of that stinking Katrina victim filled town!
My prediction is that when the Government can’t feed the masses anymore, Houston will be one of the first cities to have riots and be burnt to the ground by the feckless bums that live there. Like Chicago, too many years of progressive left wing leadership.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:51amThese are despicable, low-life adults targeting children with their lies just to promote their agenda. Preying on children and the elderly is about as low as anyone can go and this administration continues to hit all time lows.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:20amThis is not NASA’s mission. We need to get in touch with our elected officials, again, and TELL them this is not what NASA should be involved in. If NASA has nothing to do in outer space, then they need to DOWNSIZE so that America can save the tax dollars instead of WASTING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Curioso
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:35amI wonder if they even bothered to look at their own data for as long as they have been collecting it. The satellites that measure weather temperature all say that the temperature is neither increasing or decreasing in the last 18 years globally.
Report Post »Check out this link
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Might shed some light on this attempt to brainwash our kids.
edcoil
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:17amThe Nazi’s would be impress with NASA.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:18amNASA go to space and not that place between your ears!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:27amIf somebody needs a bag to declare themselves better than me, they probably aren’t.
Report Post »tgarrett369
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:30pmat the same time the artic ice is reacing its lowest recorded size, antarctica has reached its largest recorded size. these f-ing morons need to be deported
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:29pmDustyluv, I don’t know what left wing leadership has done to chicago. but i live here, its a nice place. its fun, its clean, there’s a ton of business, i guess the crime is high, but its a giant city, i kind of expect that.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:05pmActually there is very little controversy in the scientific community about global warming. From Wiki,
“The controversy is significantly more pronounced in the popular media than in the scientific literature,[1][2] where there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view,”
But if you get your science from AM radio, you might get the idea it’s one big fraud perpetuated by 1000s of scientists for the last 30 years.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:50pm@JZS
But if you get your science from AM radio, you might get the idea it’s one big fraud perpetuated by 1000s of scientists for the last 30 years.
What if I got my science frm “1000s” of scientists who have been studying this and disagree that “global warming” is cause by man? What if I believe this wacky weather is caused by the rapid polar shift taking place? WHAT IF I got my science from a girlfriend who works for the National Weather Service in Peachtree City GA, who a few years ago was part of the Vortex II tornado study, and after her team (along with MANY other teams) compiled their data and sent the report that gave strong evidence that global warming was NOT man made to some government beaurocrat chick, they were given the report back telling them to rewrite it stating the opposite, “or else”? What about then? Or my girlfriend telling me that since obama was elected, MANY senior meteorologists who disagreed with global warming were fired for not falling lock-step with their propaganda?
Report Post »Now you have three choices to make. Either I am lying, she was lying or you are wrong and are following the MSDNC “party line” concerning this issue. name calling isn’t argumentative evidence, and it only makes you look silly. “AM radio”??? Give me a break! Now try again harder.
Rowgue
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:15pm@JZS
The moment you cite a wikipedia page as proof of anything you have failed miserably.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:23pmMr. Rogers says- Can you say in-doc-tri-na-tion boys and girls?
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