Course Description: Learn to craft false statements that appear factual and to justify "fixes" for imaginary problems. The student learns how to apply said fixes to an agenda which addresses environmentalists' most precious issue: human-caused global warming Course Instructor: An associate transportation planner with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).  The Caltrans website contains a section which almost comically could have been prepared for this fictitious course. An article titled "Turning a More Vivid Shade of Green: Caltrans Takes a Stand on Climate Change, Global Warming" states: The world may be exhausting its supply of petroleum, but the larger question now has to do with an abundance of fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) that threaten the planet we call home. The article's author seems eminently qualified to teach "Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101," what with the obvious skill for packing...(Read Full Post)