One-Third Of U.S. Science Teachers Bring Climate Change Denial Into the Classroom

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The report also found that 7 percent of teachers taught that climate change was natural. Air Images/Shutterstock

As the effects of climate change really kick in, it won’t be the adults alive now who will have to deal with the increased flooding, heat waves, and food shortages, it will be their children. Considering the burden that they will have to bear, you might hope that they will be given the full facts about climate change and its causes. But a worrying report, published this week in Science, has found that many teachers in the U.S. are failing their students.