Thomas Catenacci of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a disturbing aspect of climate alarmism.
NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children in kindergarten. It also warns children that the world is undergoing cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their future may very well be doomed.
Climate Kids proclaims that the cost of fossil fuels is “pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground,” while the “biggest problem of all” is global warming. The website separately shows an image of what it says may soon occur to the United States’ Eastern Seaboard: a calamitous sea level rise covering entire cities, including New Orleans and Miami. The website fails to include a timeline for such an event.
NOAA Education Portal, which is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is another government-managed webpage that, like NASA’s Climate Kids, includes a curriculum with catastrophic language about global warming. Courses linked on the portal, for example, encourage students to foster negative emotions about the state of the environment into taking action.
The online resources appear to be a peg in the Biden-Harris administration’s broader strategy of aiming climate messaging at younger generations, even as those age groups report high levels of “climate anxiety,” a phenomenon acknowledged by the administration. When the White House this year unveiled its American Climate Corps federal work program, AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith said the program was “an opportunity to turn anxiety into action.”
The Climate Kids webpage was created in 2012 under the Obama administration, according to archival data, and remained live during the Trump administration. NASA’s website didn’t include direct links to the page until recently, however, additional archival data show. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the agency’s website now links the Climate Kids page in its “interactives” section, created in 2023, and its multimedia section, which linked to its STEM page during the Trump administration.
