School officials are still arguing about teaching climate change

Scientific consensus was reached decades ago. Texas education officials are wasting time and misleading students.

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September 7, 2023 - 2:48 PM

Lake Mead has declined dramatically, leaving a “bathtub ring” of minerals coating the rocky shores. Photo by (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Really? We’re still arguing about this?

Partisan sniping about whether human fuel-burning is warming the planet — about which there is no reasonable debate — and whether society should do anything about it feels more like 2003 than 2023. Yet officials in states such as Texas continue to fight a rearguard action against reality.

July marked the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. This summer has tested Texas in particular, with record-breaking temperatures straining the state’s electric power grid, forcing Texas to issue eight energy conservation requests in…

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