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Climate watch: Gore’s ‘Truth’ Aged Badly

Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years ago triggered the “inculcation” in “millions of Americans” of the belief that “climate change poses an existential crisis” to humanity, fumes Juan Davis Rojas at UnHerd. Yet his “alarmist claims” of “imminent apocalypse” were always “wildly inaccurate.” Climate change is real, but with no real threat of a “terminal risk to humanity.” “Rational, commonsense measures” can “mitigate the negative consequences” of warming, including the “expansion” of “wind, solar, geothermal, and nuclear power.” “Climate fundamentalists” may shrug at “progress,” the world’s made “great strides” in emission reduction since 2006. “Anthropogenic climate change is quite real,” but Al Gore’s “fundamentalist successors” had best note how their obstinacy has “contributed to their own discredit.”

Education beat: A Disastrous Discipline ‘Reform’

Claims in 2003 that “suspensions and expulsions” were “disproportionately” targeting students with disabilities and boys from Black and Latino communities, effectively pushing them “into the justice system” (called “the “school-to-prison pipeline”) changed “how schools discipline children”— with terrible results, explain Jennifer Weber & Carolyn D. Gorman at City Journal. Districts began “reducing suspensions and replacing them with mental health-oriented approaches like ‘restorative........

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