> This isn't the government compelling a viewpoint. Care to elaborate on that ? Administrators, who are very much part of the government (and thus, in the end,

> This isn't the government compelling a viewpoint. Care to elaborate on that ? Administrators, who are very much part of the government (and thus, in the end, ordered around by the executive) are forcing teachers, textbooks and ... to comply with a specific view they're defending politically ... I might understand that they do this up to the point where they present the facts (ie. historical temperature changes) and present a few different ways to extrapolate into the future. Since statistical models are what climate science uses, because first principles don't work for a system as complex as earth, I would very much like to see them teach a very simple climate model, and have them tweak the parameters to get whatever outcome they like, to show that this can be done. Then get some standard parameters in and show the IPCC position. This would show both the strengths and the weaknesses of climate change theory, and teach kids very useful data science skills in the process. It may also teach kids the valuable lesson that standards of proof in different sciences are very, very different, and ideally have them think a bit about what that means for the amount of confidence we should have in various sciences.