Jo Nova
Programming and “pre-bunking” our children to vote Green — Boosting profits for years to come!
And you thought school textbooks were non-political…
Imagine the uproar if a coal company spent thousands of dollars to put lesson plans in schools to teach our children how to run activist lobby groups to get better subsidies and tax breaks for coal miners? Imagine these lessons even include instruction on how to fundraise, and ways to counter the anti-coal “misinformation and disinformation” ?
Indeed the ACCC banned the Commonwealth Bank’s Dollarmites program from Queensland schools because it contained “sophisticated marketing tactics”. But it wasn’t teaching children to write activist campaigns to lobby for tax breaks and subsidies for bankers.
Instead Mike Cannon Brookes, Mr $30 billion, has set up the Boundless Earth charity with a $15 to $30 million budget which generously sponsors a group called Cool org. They write “scripts for teachers” and tell the kiddies to walk to school or ride their bike while (as Tony Thomas reminds us) Mr Cannon-Brookes travels in his Bombardier Twin-jet.
It’s no tinker-toy project, already reaching 2.5 million Australian kids each year and 200,000 teachers. It’s a full on indoctrination unit.
This is the reason conservatives get wiped out in elections. One side have a multilevel war machine propaganda unit, staffed and funded with millions of dollars and the other side send their kids to those schools (and then pay for the schools with their taxes).
Part I –A Jet Jockey’s Little Green Schoolkids
By Tony Thomas, Quadrant
The Cool.org charity, drafts the scripts for teachers. Cool CEO Thea Stinear claims that Cool “helps young people cut through the BS. It helps them spot what’s real. What could be more important in this day and age?” Jason Kimberley of the multi-millionaire Just Jeans family set up Cool in 2008, catering to pre-school, primary, secondary, private and public schools with endorsement by departmental and school authorities.[3]
Cool, in fact, runs a parallel universe within the school system. Well over 17 million kids to date have imbibed at least one Cool lesson, delivered by the nearly 200,000 teachers who have signed on to Cool. Believe it or not, 92% of Australian schools have delivered Cool materials to kids. I’ve been recording this Cool educational empire for years, here, here, here and here.
Their skill building includes seven units of learning on misinformation or disinformation. In Science Over Skepticism they investigate things that “influence the adoption of scientific knowledge” — like presumably learning that “The ScienceTM” is done by consensus…
Tony Thomas writes:
Cool douses kids from pre-school upwards in a waterfall of green-left woke-ism and renewables advocacy, purportedly “building a sustainable and just world for all.” As a Cool member, I see exactly what Cool offers teachers and kids, but much of the Cool materials are paywalled to outsiders. Education was captured by the left decades ago, and school and department authorities have no qualms about kids imbibing green activism from third-party providers.[5]
But frankly, I’m near-traumatised at how completely and ruthlessly such third parties are drafting schoolkids to the green crusade…
Australian teachers are overwhelmed with bureaucratic paperwork, and administrative tasks, so they’re relieved when a professional team offers to do up the lesson plan for them, and fits it all to the bureaucratized spaghetti mess that is the curriculum. It even shows how it meets UN Paris convention goals.
Cannon Brookes uses the kids to get to the parents too.
Part II — A Green Kid is a Programmed Kid
Cool doesn’t just feed kids its climate factoids, it wants kids to preach the green gospel to schoolmates, parents and the community.
One lesson for 10- to 11-year-old’s is headed, Designing a Media Campaign to Promote Clean Energy Facts. Teachers’ job: “Share some of the following examples of accurate clean energy campaigns with your class. Where possible, encourage students to assess how their campaign could counter misinformation in the clean energy sector.”
Other kids are activated to do a “myth-busting” campaign against “deniers”. Another program teaches children how to fundraise — though Tony Thomas wonders if they should be teaching stranger danger, cash receipts and accounting as well. This is “cash raising” he says. Kids are instructed to hassle I mean, talk to shop owners, and car owners, or people on the local council….
By Year 9 and 10 the kids have graduated to designing advocacy campaigns to improve “clean energy policy” and presumably Mike’s profit margins.
Tony Thomas has been in under the membership hood and says the authors seem terrified that the kids might hear skeptical viewpoints, and so they “steered them away from the best sceptic websites like joannenova.com.au and WUWT, which Cool labels as not credible” (I think Thomas means they issue a generic warning against “blogs” rather than name us, but I shall have to clarify).
It’s full “Climate Denialist” reprogramming
The Cool Org education system teaches children to call people petty names, use ad hom reasoning, and run political campaigns!
“Climate Change Denial is on the Rise among teenagers”
Hence Cool gives kids entire lessons excoriating “Climate Denial” – Cool is either oblivious or supportive of the echo to Holocaust Denial.[2] It defines “Denial” as rejecting the notions that climate change exists (a straw man, given sceptics’ affection for geology) and that “Humans are causing the climate to change” despite alleged overwhelming scientific evidence (sceptics dispute only the severity, as in purported “catastrophic” warming, and emphasise the benefits such as CO2 having greened the plant).
The Cool lesson for Year 10 continues,
In some cases, climate deniers actively spread disinformation about climate change to suit a personal or political agenda. This can have profound effects on how we address the challenges posed by climate change.
In the “Climate Literacy: Climate Change Denial And Disinformation” lesson, Students explore climate denialism and the myths often presented about climate change. They explore the facts that bust these myths, look at the implications of climate denialism on meeting the challenges of climate change, and create a communication piece to address climate disinformation.
The program does specifically mention John Clauser, the Nobel prize winning skeptics who they say “spreads misinformation”.
What Tony Thomas hasn’t found yet, is any mention that Chinese and Indian emissions are at record highs and are still growing. Boy are those kids going to feel used and abused when they find out the truth.
Now I’m a free speech girl, I would not mind kids being exposed to all their arguments, as long as skeptics get equal access. The truth always wins (and it’s funnier… ) our job would be easy.
Tony Thomas has done a long investigation and two articles already on Quadrant with a third to come. Read it all there.
Tony’s latest book from Connor Court is Anthem of the Unwoke – Yep! The other lot’s gone bonkers. $34.95
“Science over Skepticism”
???
Science IS Skepticism
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Indeed.
That’s how you do (real) science.
Science involves constantly questioning and evaluation of claims including “consensus” (sic) claims which are falsely claimed by the Left to be the basis of scientific fact.
All science is subject to sceptical inquiry.
There is no such thing as establ8shing scientific fact by consensus.
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What? Science is observation and cataloguing (it’s extremely tedious). With sufficient data a hypothesis or theory can be construed or tested. If the process is reliable then a minimum of skepticism remains. Perhaps you are referring to postmodern science in which hypotheses take precedence over observation. Yes, that is certainly a fraudulent exercise deserving of skepticism.
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Uber,
It seems Einstein wasn’t a scientist then.
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I always thought of Einstein as a mathematician.
But that’s just the way I am.
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So how do they teach General Science, Physics and Chemistry at Schools? The mind boggles.
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I just wish all Aussies could be told the true cost of toxic, unreliable W & S, like the estimate from 2 Universities and a think tank, that finds it could cost up to 9 TRILLION $.
BTW our total GDP is about 1.7 trillion $, so work it out for yourselves.
So why don’t we spend about 0.15 TRILLION $ on BASELOAD Nuclear and have 24/7/365 energy until 2100?
Probably the easiest no brainer we will ever encounter, unless you’re from the Labor, Greens or Teals fantasy world.
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Perhaps I should point out that 0.15 trillion = 150 billion $ and that is allowing about 21 + billion $ for each Nuclear power plant.
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The Thinking Community needs to counter this indoctrination.
As I said in the Wednesday thread:
To counter the Leftist indoctrination of children in schools it might be worthwhile establishing some sort of “critical thinking children’s club” or TV or online show (or meetings) where children learn and participate in various critical thinking, pro-science and pro-reason activities.
Thoughts?
And Ronin replied:
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Tony Thomas is a real journalist giving us an incite into the what happens when kids are forced to drink the CC CoolAid.
He will be on the right side of history.
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To the Monkees’ I’m A Believer:
And then I read Jo’s site,
now I’m a ‘den!er’.
I’m not a Green,
nor out of my mind.
Coolies k!ll (whoah!),
they’re Believers,
and Deceivers,
not you and I 🎸
It’s a concerted attack on all fronts: today’s Big Repeat®️ is if we removed six million fossil fuelled machines we’d save billions of dollars and return to Arcadia’s utopian sanctuary run on mythical ‘electricity’ from rainbow unicorn wings & things.
6,000,000.
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‘This is the reason conservatives get wiped out in elections.’. No, you are completely wrong there Jo. Conservatives do very well in elections if they are actually conservatives (and properly organised). Farage? Trump? Abbott?
The LNP did very poorly exactly because it is not at all conservative. All the nonsense about Trump and campaign incidents is just political noise. The fact is that the electorate knows the LNP is a pointless, rudderless rabble.
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Absolutely! They got a well-deserved beating last weekend because they endorsed this crap to the full! With nothing to differentiate them from Labor there was no-one to vote for them.
A perfect example of the Uniparty!
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We should also be honest with the people and point out that the true believers actually BELIEVE that it would take thousands of years before we could see a reduction in co2 levels.
That’s if we stopped all Human co2 emissions today. See the “The Conversation” and “The Royal Society” studies that I’ve linked to many times.
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The easy response for anyone is to just take the Co2 Coalition’s Quiz and this should be easy for most of Jo Nova’s visitors.
These Scientists think that more co2 would be a good thing for the world’s environment and Humans today and lead to a more prosperous future.
https://co2coalition.org/quiz/us-air-quality-is-becoming-less-and-less-healthy/
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He is also major sponsor of the Williams F1 racing team.
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/inside-atlassian/atlassian-williams-partnership
Is he a closet petrol-head?
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How many tyres would a team use up in one race meeting, 2 cars X 4 wheels for practice, qualifying for sprint then the main race, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Another no brainer is that Humans lived very short and brutal lives for most of the last 300,000 years and life expectancy was under 30 years.
Then Britain started the Industrial Revolution and everything changed over the last 0.1% of Human history.
Today Human average life expectancy is about 73 years and life is steadily improving although we could be held back because of stupid leader’s decisions from now on.
Obviously we should look up the data for ourselves and vote accordingly.
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As per the multipronged attack: He’s Back! Kevin Trenberth’s not only waving, he’s drowning:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560159/ocean-near-new-zealand-warming-faster-than-anywhere-else-study-finds
Keep a pinch of salt handy: “Oceans absorb most of the excess heat that people are pumping into the climate system [yet] the seas are not heating evenly”, preached Doctor Kevin from Illusions of NIWA (ION).
Sumpfink™️ about hot air makes hot water which makes hotter air make oceans even hotter and on and on until everything is boiling – another perpetual motion hypothesis from the Faster Than Anywhere Else school of no thought.
Despite the Consensus of Settled Science™️ (a great title for a Sci-Fi Comedy of Errors?) so-called experts don’t know why there are warm patches at 40*N and 40*S of Earth’s ocean (for it is but one). Could it be the ‘missing hot spot’ is proving so illusory that grant-seekers have invented – spellcheck: discovered – an altogether new hot spot: or more precisely, a less freezing area of salt water?
Reassure your grandchildren: the seas are not boiling around New Zealand… why, I jumped in the Pacific Ocean only yesterday and it was BRACING, BREATHTAKING and BRISK 🥶 albeit refreshing. We can only dream of ‘marine heatwaves’ – or fly to Fiji.
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Has been constant Bombardment of all my kids and Grandkids throughout their education, with constant reinforcing of Global Warming, and when that did not occur, switched to Climate Change
No real education on the realities of AC versus DC Power and how critical low cost energy is to Australia’s Future!
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One area where the Left absolutely excels over the Thinking Community is in the production and delivery of propaganda as the cool.org website clearly demonstrates.
They are the experts!
And notice the unit on “Understanding Misinformation and Disinformation”:
The terminology of “Misinformation and Disinformation” and “to identify truths and myths about clean energy” suggests that enforcers of the Office Narrative such as the e Safety Kommissar may be asked to (or do so without being asked) use her censorship powers to shut down any challenge to any such anti-science propaganda not in accord with the Official Narrative of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
And scaring children with stories of future catastrophe unless we shut down our energy supply and economy is downright immoral.
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Interesting idea. Hope the authors don’t realise they are playing with fire.
Just imagine if the students really did understand misinformation and disinformation.
In my days as a teacher I found students had very well developed BS detectors. The adoption of the expression totally gay is an example.
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Notice also how they use the term “clean energy” as if to imply that coal, gas and nuclear is “dirty”, which of course it isn’t.
No mention of the tremendous destruction of bird, bat and insects by windmills, the felling of forests, the removal from service of productive farmlands or wildness for solar and wind subsidy farms, clearance of forests for transmission lines and roads, toxic chemicals into the atmosphere when battery subdidy farms burn, the tremendous environmental destruction for Snowy Hydro 2 and the non-recyclable nature of most of wind, solar and battery subsidy harvesting devices.
Also, coal, gas and nuclear power plants, including coal mines and uranium mines occupy incredibly small footprints and most people rarely see them. Contrast that with any drive outside of a city and your eyes are assaulted by the eyesore visible for many kms of windmills and solar farms.
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Never forget that Lomborg tells us that everyone will be much wealthier by 2100 and he uses Dr Nordhaus’ study to prove his point. Dr Nordhaus won the Nobel prize for economics in 2015. Here’s a quote from Lomborg’s article and I don’t think we should be too worried about losing 0.1% of wealth in 2100.
BTW Dr Nordhaus used the same modelling that is used by the IPCC and the US EPA.
“Nor is Nordhaus alone in his views among economists. Lomborg shows that there are many IA models but the biggest and best known ones all more or less agree that climate change will only shave a small amount off prosperity by 2100, a result which won’t even be noticeable in the context of massive growth. Instead of per capita income being six times larger it might be only 5.9 times larger. And the models that say this are not weird outliers contrived by freaks and “deniers”. Instead they are the mainstream models used by, among others, the IPCC and the US Environmental Protection Agency to study the issue”.
Lomborg on the 21st century part 3: economic costs of climate change – Climate Discussion Nexus
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I’m sorry, I’ll try that Lomborg link again.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2023/09/13/lomborg-on-the-21st-century-part-3-economic-costs-of-climate-change/
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