Australian students as young as 10 are being taught climate change lessons shaped by a fossil fuel company, according to a New Report from climate communications charity Comms Declare.

The investigation reveals that Shell’s QGC gas business has provided more than $10 million to the Queensland Museum, gaining potential influence to school programs and science education used by thousands of young people across the country.

Belinda Noble, Founder of Comms Declare, said the case raises national alarm bells. “This is climate obstruction dressed up as education. We wouldn’t let Big Tobacco sponsor teaching materials – fossil fuel companies shouldn’t shape how kids learn about the climate.”

Climate Councillor Professor Lesley Hughes, who is a former lead author on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, has reviewed these teaching materials. She said: “As a climate change scientist I’m appalled that a fossil fuel company is involved in science education for our young people, who will be the ones to suffer the most from their climate-wrecking activities.”

Nic Seaton, CEO of Parents for Climate, said: “As parents, we simply want our children to learn the truth about the world they will inherit. Our kids deserve independent, accurate climate education that empowers them to thrive in a rapidly warming world, not materials that protect corporate interests at the expense of their future.”

Dr Eve Mayes, Senior Research Fellow (Pedagogy and Education) at Deakin University, says: “We are living in times when young people urgently need accurate, age-appropriate resources to make sense of climate change and to imagine and work towards just energy transitions. Yet it’s troubling that the learning experiences offered in cultural institutions are being compromised by vested interests.”

The fossil fuel alarmists seem to be getting desperate.

Its appalling.

How are we ever going to turn the adults of tomorrow into climate automatons if we give them both sides of the story today?

The kids need to learn that their future economic welfare is being destroyed in a 'good' cause.

I hate to tell you it starts a lot earlier than that.

"The Queensland Museum has held a partnership with Shell’s QCG business since 2015.

In a statement, it said the Future Makers program had funded professional development for more than 1700 teachers, a suite of digital resources and videos, a science and technology career showcase and community events in the regional centres of Chinchilla and Gladstone.

It told the climate group that it maintained full independence in its research, exhibitions and educational activities, and that its partnership with Shell was designed to foster critical thinking, evidence-based learning and engagement with Queensland’s natural history."

The Museum "maintained full independence in its research, exhibitions and educational activities". Well let's pretend to not see that since it doesn't fit the narrative.

It "was designed to foster critical thinking". Don't they realise that critical thinking has no place in climate 'science'!! Nor does "evidence-based learning".

Still 'Comms Declare' managed to fool those anxious to be fooled.... so all's well.

Climate change is a reality and it is important that students engage with the challenges we face. To assume that a discussion about climate change implies an attack on fossil fuels. Ideally such a discussion should incorporate an understanding that we need to develop resilient communities. It should include an awareness that we do not know the precise implications of climate change will have on our lives. It should include a discussion about the long term implications of choices that we make today.

BAYGON has buzzed in after a long absence to advise us that “climate change is a reality” as if we haven't been told that 9 squillion times.

Yes. It is reality, but it cannot be stopped.

As for the need for kids to “engage with the challenge”: bullswool; they need to engage with the 3Rs so that they can get meaningful employment, and leave the climate waffle to people with nothing better to do.

That is, if there is any employment for them without fossil fuels providing cheap and reliable energy.

There has been enough “discussion”. It is time for common sense action and a return to the productivity and wealth that we used to have.

I worry much more about kids being terrified by being taught climate catastrophism and the huge amount bring spent by the renewable energy industry convincing people of the importance and urgency of net zero. As Peter Ridd elucidated at a recent Senate hearing, the big money is being spent by the grifters.

What do kids learn about nuclear power at school?

End the ban and ditch the grifters.