Florida pushes publishers to play down climate change in textbooks

Florida's Department of Education pushed textbook publishers to downplay climate change content, telling them the science isn't settled, according to independent reporting on how the changes were made quietly rather than through public debate.

The reporting frames the shift through a classroom scenario in which students cite sea level rise, storm surge, and sea turtle sex ratios skewed by hotter sand as evidence the textbooks are out of step with observable reality.

The piece notes students increasingly bypass textbooks altogether, turning to social media and independent sources for information the state's approved materials reportedly soft-pedal.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.