Apparently a YEC named "Frosty" trumps the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences every time.
"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD." (emphasis mine)
That about sums up the state of play here in the US. It's not easy being an K-12 educator when idiot parents like Hardison manage to sway school board members to ignore scientific findings. Hardison's wife is quite the rational thinker as well:
"From what I've seen (of the movie) and what my husband has expressed to me, if (the movie) is going to take the approach of 'bad America, bad America,' I don't think it should be shown at all," Gayle Hardison said. "If you're going to come in and just say America is creating the rotten ruin of the world, I don't think the video should be shown."
Damn it! It's just un-American to talk about global warming. Wouldn't want the kids to find out that 5% of the world's population produce about 25% of the warming gases.
Update: Oh, this is perfect. Frosty has a webpage which has had 97 hits since 1989. He's in "web consulting" and has a "goal both as a Company and as Americans - is to Make a Difference Everyday, by standing up for what is Right, Good and True for God and Country - the Red, the White and the Blue!" Looking at the webpage he created, I can't imagine he gets much work.
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"Condoms don't belong in school" - given the seven-kid family, apparently they aren't allowed in his house, either. And normally I wouldn't mention it - "to each his own", after all - except that I can't help thinking of how much those seven extra people will contribute to global warming, particularly if they put out as much hot air as Frosty apparently does.
Frosty's page is unavailable now
Three words: live blink tags.
Ugh...take a look at his resume. Lots of short contracts, and it ends with a list of "recently read" books -- and "recently" apparently means in the last 11 years.
There is one book on refrigeration engineering that he read over a decade ago, which does explain his cure for global warming: building giant nuclear powered refrigerators at the north and south poles.
So is the implication that condoms don't belong in school because they aren't school teachers? Someone needs to ask.
Over at Framing Science, I have this post up on why Gore's movie is not appropriate for science class:
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2007/01/creationist_parent_gets…