Professor Kennedy
January 18, 2007 on 12:57 pm | In Education, Global Warming, Main, Media, National |Just posted a variation of the following comment on a friend’s blog. Food for thought.
Robert Kennedy Jr. just wrote another piece in the HuffingtonPost citing as evidence of global warming (among other things) “robins and bluebirds in upstate New York” and a friend of his who had just picked some asparagus. Is this supposed to convince skeptics that man is indeed the primary cause of climate change?
Gee, Bob, what about the ice storms to our south and the devastating freezes in southern California? What exactly are we to make of those?
There is no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer. The question is how much man is contributing to it. Listening to clowns like Kennedy talk about science is no better than reading Bill O’Reilly to learn about history. Junk food for the brain …
P.S. There is a terrific and thought provoking series of columns this week in OpinionJournal.com about education by Charles Murray. He writes with more clarity on the subject than anyone I have read. Click here, here and here to read the columns.
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Regarding Murray’s WSJ op-ed on education, I especially appreciated the first of the three-part series. His theme was the limits of education in turning every child into a superior student. A very common sense observation that is too often left out of the ongoing discussion on educational reform. It is indeed true that unlike Lake Woebegone, not every child is above average in intelligence, and we should not design our schools as if they were.
Comment by Yankee — January 20, 2007 #
I also like his message that just because a student has an above average IQ doesn’t mean s/he sill be wasting his/her life if college isn’t a part of it.
College isn’t always an appropriate place, even for the gifted
Comment by Terry — January 20, 2007 #