Doss Elementary’s PTA newsletter confirms Mr. B.’s third place in the science fair. Along with twenty-two other fourth graders. Some of his friends on the list, more on the second and first place lists. Oh, well.
The projects are worthwhile, I suppose, in teaching science. But even the teachers know we parents have a big hand in these things. Without continual advice and goosing prodding, the kids would never finish them, much less do them correctly. They’re simply too young and science is too hard. (Unless you’re a climate researcher. Then you just make it up as you go along.)
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Hmmm, that might teach him a lesson next year.
Have him do a global warming project.
He won’t have to research it, just show a bunch of melting ice and talk about 20 meter sea rise and he’ll get that first prize.
Of course, that might be the wrong lesson.
You don’t want him knowing how easy it is to con people when he’s too young.
The hoax is disintegrating so rapidly these days that I expect by next year no one will want to defend it, not even a kid in a science fair.
I don’t know, I figure next year it’ll be the coming ice age.
They can’t admit they were wrong, believing in global warming shows how good and smart they are and disbelievers are stupid and evil.
To a lot of them, their self-worth depends on being better than those around them.
Global warming gives them that feeling.
And think of how smugly ignorant they were as they acted all superior, how obnoxious they acted as they patiently explained that the science was settled?. How can they admit they were wrong?
Especially to themselves.
It’s a religion, they don’t just go away.
They’ve got the ice age covered, too. They’re already blaming all the snow this winter on AGW.