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Texas School Board Member, Whose Company Services Oil Fields, Says Climate Textbooks ‘Make Things Appear Worse Than They Are’

Aaron Kinsey criticized the way oil companies were portrayed in some science textbooks, saying ‘there’s an overemphasis on the evils of oil and gas’ in them

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A board member sitting on the Texas State Board of Education, who also happens to run a company that patrols oil pipelines and production fields, criticized climate textbooks in the classroom on Friday while reviewing materials for the state’s science curriculum, according to reports.

The Texas State Board of Education on Friday voted against including several climate change-related textbooks in the curriculum, according to The Guardian.

Among the board members who were present during the vote and who criticized the contents of the textbooks was Adam Kinsey, a conservative who was elected to the Texas State Board of Education in November 2022.

Kinsey, according to his bio on the Texas State Board of Education, is also the CEO of American Patrols, an aerial patrol service in the Midland, Texas, region that provides service for more than 40 oil companies.

During the vote, Kinsey criticized photos in some textbooks, claiming they presented oil companies in a negative light. 

“The selection of certain images can make things appear worse than they are, and I believe there was bias,” Kinsey reportedly said while reviewing one textbook.

Third-generation oilman Fred Holmes walks past a working pumpjack at his oilfield in Taft, Kern County, California on September 21, 2023. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images© Provided by The Messenger

While reviewing another textbook, Kinsey made similar remarks, according to local NBC affiliate KXAN-TV.

“There’s an overemphasis on the evils of oil and gas and virtues of renewables,” he said. 

“You want to see children smiling in oilfields?” Aicha Davis, a Democratic board member, said in response. “I don’t know what you want.”

Davis also defended the climate change textbooks. 

“We have to make sure we have really good standards and really good textbooks here in Texas. It does influence what other states are going to get as well,” Davis said, according to KXAN-TV.

Related video: Texas education board rejects climate change lessons in textbooks (KXAN Austin).

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11/18/2023

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. Processed Meats Extremism

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans are eating more meat than ever, around 222 pounds each year, per person. Processed meats including sausage, hot dogs, pepperoni, packaged lunch meat, beef jerky, ham, and bacon may increase the odds of developing colorectal cancer. The World Health Organization warns that daily consumption of even one hot dog or a few strips of bacon increases cancer risk by 18%. Processed meats are any that have been cured, smoked, salted, canned, or dried. They contain nitrates, preservatives added to enhance flavor and deter bacteria growth. Nitrates also occur naturally in fresh foods. Researchers can anecdotally link them to cancer, though the research is inconclusive and ongoing.

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Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

Maggie Harrison

Sat, November 18, 2023 at 5:30 AM CST·2 min read

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This just in: once again, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods has some thoughts on that whole pesky climate crisis.

Bloomberg reports that in a Wednesday speech at the San Francisco-held “CEO Summit,” Woods expressed his frustration with global climate mitigation efforts, decrying the besmirchment of the fossil fuel industry and urging that oil and gas suppliers are the good guys, actually.

“Oil and gas companies reliably provide affordable products essential to modern life,” Woods reportedly told the crowd. “Making them into villains is easy. But it does nothing — absolutely nothing — to accomplish the goal of reducing emissions.”

To the CEO’s point: villainizing the fossil fuel industry is easy, considering that coal, oil and gas are “by far the largest contributor to global climate change,” according to the United Nations. It’s also very easy to villainize Exxon in particular. The oil giant has faced mounting public and legal pressure in the years since a 2016 investigation revealed that Exxon knew about the connection between fossil fuels and climate change as early as 1977 — and proceeded to ignore and even allegedly undermine that science over the decades that followed.

But per Bloomberg, Woods said on Wednesday that to focus on “reducing supply” — in other words: to focus on them — is hogwash. Rather, if the world wants to “get real” about net zero, governments should instead be putting taxpayer dollars into tech-driven efforts like carbon capture. You know, so we can finally get to the bottom of this environmental disaster!

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That sounds a lot like arguing that cigarette companies shouldn’t be held responsible for causing a public health crisis when we can focus on high-tech solutions like chemotherapy — but sure, guy.

Elsewhere in his speech, Woods reportedly made the inexplicable choice to touch on the “ExxonKnew” campaign, contending that though some folks might be fixated on “what they think Exxon knew back then,” he’s personally “more interested in what ExxonMobil knows today.” Which, apparently, happens to be the most basic, guilt-free climate history that Woods could have pulled out of his CEO Talking Points hat.

“Climate change is real,” Woods triumphantly declared, per Bloomberg. “Human activity plays a major role.” As for what this exact human activity might be? Unclear, it seems. But rest assured, according to Woods, Exxon is ready to throw its weight behind efforts to figure it out.

“We’ve got the tools, the skills, the size — and the intellectual and financial resources — to bend the curve on emissions,” said the handsome executive, according to Bloomberg. “That’s what ExxonMobil knows.”

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No matter what the future holds for the media – they have to accept the fact that nothing in life is certain. and you never know what you are going to get by the decisions you make:

• Cigarettes are still in style even though they cause cancer – people still smoke.
• People still eat processed meets which could cause cancer like bacon/hot dogs

I could go on and on.

The media has become a part of a cult who are trying to destroy our country as indicated above.

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