Profs Recommend Students Drop Course If They Deny Global Warming

No room for debate.

8.31.2016

The College Fix received a copy of an e-mail signed by three professors co-teaching a humanities class at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs that suggested their students drop the course if they take issue with man-made climate change.

According to the correspondence, several students contacted the professors with concerns about their success in the course after viewing the initial online lecture. Instead of welcoming an open dialog on the subject, the professors, Rebecca Laroche, Wendy Haggren and Eileen Skahill, told them to find another class:

The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring. We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course.

Opening up a debate that 98% of climate scientists unequivocally agree to be a non-debate would detract from the central concerns of environment and health addressed in this course.

If you believe this premise to be an issue for you, we respectfully ask that you do not take this course, as there are options within the Humanities program for face to face this semester and online next.

Students who wish to remain enrolled in the course are asked to refrain from the climate debate in online forums and only use research that has been “peer-reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

After reviewing the syllabus, The College Fix discovered a section on the “health effects of fracking.” The materials listed are exclusively anti-fracking with no representation of the possible benefits, according to the report.

So much for the marketplace of ideas.