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.