For the past several years I have read about how school text books are based on what the Texas school boards, state and local, feel their students should believe. Texans are not supposed to know about evolutionary science so it is expressed as a possibility or belief whereas a belief is a supernatural being creating everything in a few years as factual. Religion is strong in Texas which generates lots of lawsuits for and against.

            Now, Texas is going to persuade American children that climate change isn’t real. Why? It is simple. The boards use advisory groups that are basically dominated by the fossil fuel industry.  It is Texas where it is sacrilegious to speak ill of oil and gas. So instead of trying to teach Americans that it is going to get worse each year and we are at the tipping point of global disaster, Texas school boards are denying the knowledge and reality of carbon causing it. Texas can push their student’s heads in the sand, but their influence and pressure on school books around the country means teachers have to tell their students the books are wrong.

            We have a President and an Administration that is more interested in making money for themselves and their friends than continuing the efforts of previous forward looking Presidents and the rest of the world. Deniers cite China is building fossil fuel plants so we can’t cut back on ours to use solar and wind. That’s the fossil fuel obfuscation. Yes, China is building fossil fuel burners but they also have several time more wind and solar than we do and they are building nuclear plants as fast as they can. Seems like they have smart people running their energy policies and we have ostriches!