This policy change is something most in N.J. — even Republicans — agree on, poll shows - NJ.com
Teaching kids about climate change is something most in N.J. - even Republicans - agree on - nj.com
It’s not unheard of for politics to split the Garden State on an array of issues but — according to a new poll — that doesn’t extend to the climate change curriculum that must now be taught in New Jersey schools.
As of last fall, public schools in the state became the first nationwide mandated to teach about climate change and its impacts on human society, as part of new standards adopted by the state Board of Education in June 2020.
When asked if schools should be required to teach about climate change, of all the Democrats polled 96% said they were in favor, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey released Monday morning.
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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.