Florida adds PragerU climate denial videos to approved syllabus for children up to 11

Content comparing climate activists to Nazis and denying the science of global warming can be used by schools in Florida

Despite its name, Prager University Foundation is a lobby group rather than an academic institution. Content on its PragerU Kids platform, some of which rejects accepted science about climate change, can now be taught to children aged up to 11 in Florida public schools. Picture: David McNew/Getty 

Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous, and claim that global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public curriculum.

Slickly made animations by the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces materials on science, history, gender, and other topics widely criticised as distorting the truth, will be allowed to be shown to children from kindergarten up to fifth grade [children aged 10 to 11] after being adopted by Florida’s department of education.