When we teach math or English in New Jersey, we should include lessons on climate change | Opinion - NJ.com
When we teach math or English in New Jersey, we should include lessons on climate change | Opinion - nj.com
By Lauren Madden
This past September, New Jersey became the first state to include climate change standards across the curriculum, starting in kindergarten. This important step put our state at the forefront of the nation and the world in preparing children to solve the problems we will face in the future.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
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.