'Beakman's World' Creator Touts Breaking the Law for Climate Change Legislation

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Liberal bias once again found its way into the comic pages on Sunday. The science series You Can With Beakman & Jax is supposed to provide educational material to children, but sometimes lapses into left-wing environmental propaganda. In the December 13 strip, which appears in 300 newspapers around the country, writer/artist Jok Church (who also created the TV show Beakman's World) answered a question from a child about fighting global warming. "It's important to let other people know how you feel," he instructed.

Church proceeded to tout 350.org, an alarmist environmental website that is supporting the Copenhagen climate talks. Church even promoted defacing public property to support the organization: "In San Francisco, my friend Michael Hemes and I printed out back-to 350 stickers and put them on stop signs." He lectured, "To keep the planet from warming up, CO2 should be only 350 ppm (parts per million). This is not a maybe thing. We've got to roll back the greenhouse gases to 350ppm."

What kind of an educator would encourage children to break the law and deface public property? There's a picture in the text-heavy strip (it doesn't appear to be Church) of someone putting a sticker on a stop sign. Is this the kind of "family friendly" comic that newspapers around the country are looking for?  

On October 5, 2008, Church adopted a similar tone and attacked climate change skeptics. Answering a question on how erasers remove pencil marks, he propagandized,  "Back in the 18th century, [Joseph] Priestley was a reverend searching for proof in the natural world as a way of proving his religion. That meant he already knew what he wanted to prove and gathered evidence to support that belief. This is also how some folks now fight against ideas such as global warming."

Trying to push children into breaking the law with this kind of activism, Church concluded, "Go to our website www.beakman.com and download 350 logos you can print out and put in windows or doors all over your town." It seems as though the scientists who falsified data in the ClimateGate scandal aren't the only ones willing to do anything to promote their cause.