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view last week. If so, the campaign would reach more than ( :// .- =*MM �,, ence teachers Accompanying the materials is a cover letter (https://www.document - cloud.org/ documents /35264.15 - Heartland- Institute - letter -to -e ucators.htmi) from Lennie .larratt, project manager of Heartland's Center for Transforming Ed- ucation. He asks teachers to "consider the possibility" that the science is not set- tled. "If that's the case, then students would be better served by letting them know a vibrant debate is taking place among scientists;' he writes. The letter also points teachers to an online guide to using the DVD in their classrooms. The Heartland initiative dismisses multiple (http://iopscience.iop.org/arti- c I e/1 0.10 88/1748-9326/8/2/024024/m eta) studies (http://journals.sagepub. - com/doi/10.1177/0270467616634958) showing scientists are in near unanimous agreement that humans are changing the climate. Even if human activity is con- tributing to climate change, the book argues, it "would probably not be harmful, because many areas of the world would benefit from or adjust to climate change" The campaign elicited immediate derision from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit in Oakland, California that monitors climate change education in classrooms. "It's not science, but it's dressed up to look like science;' said NCSE executive di- rector Ann Reid. "It's clearly intended to confuse teachers" It's too early to know how the materials will be used in schools around the coun- try. There aren't uniform standards for teaching climate change, and the subject