It has recently come to light that big energy companies promote faulty science experiments in US schools.

Through NEED (National Energy Education Development; http://www.need.org), an educational initiative created by the petrolium industry and generously supported by BP, Chevron, Halliburton Foundation, KBR, Shell, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American school children are being exposed to climate science experiments that are misleading or designed to minimise the impact of global warming.

One such experiment is the "Greenhouse in a Beaker", which has been reviewed and tested by the Mobile Climate Science Labs program of Climate Change Education (climatechangeeducation.org). Findings were that this science lab for schools and science aquariums is deeply flawed. It teaches false science that petroleum engineers know is wrong, and continues to promote errors that have been carefully addressed in peer reviewed science journals.

Full review and results from lab and field testing:
http://climatechangeeducation.org/hands-on/difficulties/heating_greenhouse_gases/problem_examples/need/index.html

Many questions remain unanswered about this and other so called global warming "science" experiments. For example, why are the big energy companies promoting flawed science experiments through NEED, and how widespread are such experiments in US schools today?

Another important question to ask is: Does such practices affect people in the UK and other parts of the world? Carbon-info.org thinks that it does matter. If the next generation of Americans are confused about what global warming is and how to recognise the reality of a warming world, then this will have far reaching consequences way outside the walls of an American classroom, and far outside the borders of America, which does concern all of us.

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