Silencing science won't prevent global warming

This story seemed outrageous to me. The article in The Post talks about how the superintendent of a High School in southeast Montana stopped the speech of a man who was a large advocate and teacher of global warming. The superintendent felt that the speaker was going to get the community that was mostly farming business angry that he was allow to talk to the students about this issue. The superintendent was being pressured by the school board not to let him speak and he did something. Unfortunately it was a move out of ignorance and fear about nothing and it called much more attention and controversy to the situation then that he was trying to avoid. The speaker wasn’t even going to talk about global warming in his speech. He said he was going to talk about the positivity of science and the benefits of the scientific field.
I think this is a ridiculous story and that theories are nothing to fear. The superintendent was just worried that because global warming is making it harder for farmers and farming is one of the major causes of global warming so he thought it would get people upset. He thought someone in the community allowed to speak out against what the community thrives on to survive would cause uproar and angry at the school in the community. But as the writer pointed out in his article, there would probably be no outrage from the public, in fact many farmers are in support of wind energy and other techniques to become more economic and be more environmentally friendly. So by doing this, the superintendent only made them look like they are reject the possibility of global warming and ignorant. People like the superintendent and the school board of Montana only look in the short term and won’t allow change to occur in their community. This is not the message that should be sent to the youth. They should not be so close minded and afraid of a speech. People like him need to learn to be more willing to change and be more open minded.