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In New Jersey, climate change education is rolled into all sorts of school subjects - NPR
In New Jersey, climate change education is rolled into all sorts of school subjects : NPR
In New Jersey, climate change education is rolled into all sorts of school subjects
New Jersey was the first state in the country to mandate climate change be taught across all grade levels and in most subjects.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.