DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools

Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable.

Recent global and local heat records reflect natural temperature cycles.
These are some of the themes of children’s videos produced by an influential conservative advocacy group.

Now, the videos could soon be used in Florida’s classrooms.

Florida’s Department of Education has approved the classroom use of material from the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces videos that distort science, history, gender and other topics.

DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference announcing awards for post-hurricane recovery. DeSantis’s administration has allowed schools to use videos that contain misinformation about climate change, which is worsening the impacts of the hurricanes that strike the state and causing sea level rise. Credit: Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable.

Recent global and local heat records reflect natural temperature cycles.
These are some of the themes of children’s videos produced by an influential conservative advocacy group.

Now, the videos could soon be used in Florida’s classrooms.

Florida’s Department of Education has approved the classroom use of material from the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces videos that distort science, history, gender and other topics.

Education experts call the videos dangerous propaganda.

Florida is the first state to allow PragerU materials in public schools, where teachers will have the option of showing the five- to 10-minute videos in their classrooms. Florida public schools have roughly 3 million students, more than the entire population of Kansas.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit says the videos will rebalance schools that have been “hijacked by the left.”

“Young kids are being taught climate hysteria," Streit said in an interview. "They’re hearing that the world is coming to an end, and we think that there needs to be a healthy balance.

“The climate is always changing,” Streit added, repeating a climate-denial motto that rejects fossil fuel burning as the cause of continuing record-high temperatures.

For now, Florida has approved using PragerU videos only in civics and government for younger children. Some PragerU climate denial videos are classified under non-climate categories, which could enable their use in Florida.

Florida’s approval is alarming because children will watch the videos when they are at their most impressionable stage, in kindergarten through 5th grade, said Adrienne McCarthy, a researcher at Kansas State University who tracks PragerU. Extreme ideas are presented as common beliefs in many videos, she said.

“They can take these right-wing, controversial ideas and cloak them in seemingly harmless and friendly rhetoric,” McCarthy said. “Then they create this kind of facade of normal conservative beliefs, and they use authoritative figures [in the videos] in order to convince the audience.”

“It’s also targeted at the parents themselves, saying that if you want to be a good parent, you should be teaching your kids this,” McCarthy added.

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WTF? No wonder America is in decline: the ascendency of populism, politics over reality.

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PragerU is NOT a university! Just a bunch of bible bashers pushing religious garbage.

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Of course, deny denialism.

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What was it the Jesuits said? “Give me a child until he is seven and he will be mine for the rest of his life” this filthy mob of money grubbing bible bashers want to do that with todays children!


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I remember when people thought the US was the land of the free.

This goes against the science and inculcates children with falsehoods at a very impressionable age.

These videos are paid for by fossil fuel interests.

CO2 Franko!

Causes AGW Franko!

AGW causes extreme heat Franko

Extreme heat kills people Franko

Heat melts ice and causes accelerating sea level rise Franko


Fossil fuel interests were the first to be shown strong evidence of burning fossil fuel, emission of CO2 and consequent AGW and rising sea levels Franko.

Exxon did its own studies which supported the earlier advice Franko.


You should seriously do some reading on this subject if you are going to talk about this Franko.

You wouldn’t know.

Read this website—history of discovery of AGW. It is a very gentle introduction to the science: https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm