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Are you guys still allowed to teach that climate is changing, the world is getting hotter, and fossil fuel burning is the principal cause? With all the crazy stuff going on in red states, it's hard to know what it's like in the trenches. I hope your department hasn't been too badly affected.

I doubt they'll stop us from teaching climate change, but they have pulled our courses out of the core curriculum, which will dramatically lower enrollment in the classes. They're doing that all over the state (www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...).

Our administration has been supportive of our climate research and teaching. These changes are due to a law that was passed last session.

It is a shame that they have pulled your courses out of the core curriculum, but I'm glad that you still get to teach and do research on this material. So much good stuff has come out of A&M. MIT, where I'm spending half my time these days, is an interesting case. The administration, of course,

One of my red-state colleagues, a tenured professor teaching an intro Earth science class, was threatened with discipline by his dean because a student reported him for teaching as fact that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. It's gotten that crazy.