NASA's Climate Kids website offers fun, environmentally-related educational activities, movies and video games for kindergarteners. It also warns children that the world is experiencing catastrophic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice caps are shrinking, and Their futures are likely doomed. [emphasis, links added]
climate kids claim The costs of fossil fuels are “pollution, destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the oceans, and nasty fracking chemicals on the ground,” and The “biggest problem” is global warming.
The site shows off a separate image of what it says could happen soon on the U.S. East Coast: Catastrophic sea level rise blankets entire cities, including New Orleans and Miami.
The website does not contain a timeline of such events.
The NOAA Education Portal, managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is another government-run web page that, like NASA's Climate Kids, contains lessons on the catastrophic language of global warming.
Courses linked on the portal, for example, Encourage students to develop and take action on negative emotions about environmental conditions.
These online resources appear to be part of a broader strategy by the Biden-Harris administration. Target climate messages at younger generations, even though these age groups report high levels of “climate anxiety” The government recognizes this phenomenon.
When the White House unveiled the U.S. Climate Corps federal work plan this year, U.S. Climate Corps CEO Michael Smith said the plan was an “opportunity to turn anxiety into action.”
According to archival data, the Climate Kids page was created in 2012 during the Obama administration and remained active during the Trump administration.
However, additional archival data shows that NASA's website did not include a direct link to the page until recently.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, The agency's website now links to the Climate Kids page in an “interactive” section created in 2023 and to the multimedia section of its STEM page during the Trump administration.
NOAA's educational resources and webpage on youth mental health related to climate change were created during the 2022 Biden-Harris administration.
NASA and NOAA's climate web pages for children are now the subject of an investigation led by Senator Ted Cruz (Texas Republican) In his capacity as Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, washington free beacon Already learned.
Cruz wrote to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Richard Spinrad on Thursday, requesting information about their efforts to stoke climate anxiety and climate change. “Manufacturing Support” “Radical Environmental Activism”.
“As the Biden-Harris administration celebrates Earth Day this year, it touts its efforts to combat the 'climate crisis,' including its unrealistic pursuit of net-zero emissions, the creation of the multi-billion-dollar U.S. Climate Corps, and restrictions on Federal oil and gas leasing,” Cruz wrote in the letter, which was reviewed free beacon.
“Young people are absorbing the rhetoric; They experience high levels of anxiety about climate change and adjust their behavior in radical ways, including giving up their children,” he continued. “Is this anxiety based on science or sensationalism? The evidence suggests the latter.
Cruz accused the two organizations of producing “False educational materials that fuel climate alarmism” to gain support for the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda.
He noted that this fear-mongering has led to increased rates of “eco-anxiety,” as described by the American Psychological Association, which defines the condition as “The chronic fear of environmental destruction.” Generation Z in the United States, born in the early 2000s, is experiencing this in large numbers.
Cruz noted in a letter to Nelson How NASA's Climate Kids webpage includes images showing coastal cities being completely submerged by rising sea levels.
Cruz added that such a situation According to the latest analysis, it won't happen for hundreds of years, if at all.
Cruz further pointed to a 2013 episode of the show climate storypublished on the website, features A talking polar bear whose habitat will be destroyed by global warming.
NASA's webpage also states “Maybe we should all consider downsizing to a tiny house” And that one “You don't need a lawn at all,” Says there's still time to ditch fossil fuels.
“Our nation's approach to climate change should be driven by science, not the zeitgeist of awakening,” Texas Republicans wrote to Nelson.
In his letter to Spinrad, Cruz notes how NOAA continues to push Climate Literacy: Basic Principles of Climate Sciencean interagency guide to teaching students about climate, first published in 2009.
The guide received support from NOAA's social media accounts as recently as May and was featured on Climate.gov, NOAA's website dedicated to spreading climate messages.
Other Climate.gov information includes A 2024 mental health-focused lesson plan instructs teachers to establish “safe spaces” to “facilitate collective reflection around healing and coping.”
This course plans to promote the “Climate Emotion Wheel” designed by Finnish “ecological theologian” Panu Pihkala in 2022.
The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network, a partner organization of NOAA, has designed lessons in the curriculum that advise teachers to embrace students’ negative emotions related to climate change because “Those who have negative feelings about climate change are more likely to engage in climate action.”
Teachers should encourage students to “get over their grief.”
Meanwhile, predictions shared by NOAA with students through the portal have yet to materialize.
This portal links to a video from 2012 Children are being warned that melting ice caps could create an “inevitable death spiral” that would see the Arctic Ocean be ice-free by 2022. The portal hosting the video appears to have been created in 2023.
Arctic ice minimum extent increased by 29%, According to NASA data, since the film was produced in 2012, the area has reached nearly 1 million square kilometers.
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