The South Dakota house has passed a resolution that school students should learn about “astrological” causes for global warming. You can’t make this stuff up:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislature urges that all instruction on the theory of global warming be appropriate to the age and academic development of the student and to the prevailing classroom circumstances. (Emphasis mine)
“Theory” points to a close relationship between evolution denial and climate change denial. South Dakota schools are teaching all sorts of “theory” as fact, including germ theory and atomic theory. “Cosmological” and “astrological” demonstrate how science illiteracy perverts legislation. “Interrelativity” just shows off plain illiteracy.
But it’s when the shills, hacks, and mixed nuts get equal billing — “viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation” — that you see the true, evil genius of the denial industry is in presenting their pseudo-science as having equal merit.
And yet the ice melts:
