Science Dunces

Is it any wonder that the climate-change crowd gets away with their silly suppositions?  We are obviously a nation of science dunces … viz: a recent National Science Foundation survey found that one-quarter of all Americans believe that the sun revolves around the Earth … see: CNET Piece. And roughly half don’t seem to understand the notion of evolution.

This latter ignorance is a little forgivable given contradictory Biblical teachings.  But this former scientific lapse seems nothing more than an indictment of our educational system.  Witness the fact that our Environmental Protection Agency … and by proxy our President … can label carbon dioxide a “pollutant gas” when it is the basis of our Earth’s capturing and storage of the sun’s energy … and thus the nexus of all living things on our planet.  This is equally stunning in my mind.

I wonder sometimes if we are not on the verge of slipping back into the equivalent of the Dark Ages.

Afterward: To this point, I think that too many people equate smoke with carbon dioxide.  No, CO2 is but a small part of smoke ... mostly consisting of soot, water vapor, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, etc. as well as carbon dioxide (aka, essential plant food).