Deniers Get Schooled

True or false: Scientists disagree about what's causing climate change. Easy, right? It’s false, obviously. Yet two major book publishers, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education, printed the lie in new sixth-grade textbooks as a sop to the Texas Board of Education (which has a bit of a climate-denial problem). After backlash, both companies made revisions to better reflect reality. Good thing; we’d hate to see Lone Star youngsters discouraged from growing up to be scientists. National Journal