HOAX: Fourth-grade climate realist wins junior division of National Science Fair... With Al Gore on the judges panel!

by Tom Nelson
TomNelson
Jun. 06, 2010

Update 1: Who really sent the trophy, medal and plaque to the Castillos?

Update 2: A good question: If there's no such thing as an NSF National Science Fair, why did Castillo's father allegedly send her project to NSF to be judged at the national level?

Update 3: Closeup views of the trophy/medal/plaque are here.

mySouTex.com - R A Hall fourth grader is science national champion

R.A. Hall Elementary School fourth-grader Julisa Castillo has been named junior division champion for the 2010 National Science Fair.

Her project, “Disproving Global Warming,” beat more than 50,000 other projects submitted by students from all over the U.S.

Julisa originally entered her project in her school science fair before sending it to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be judged at the national level.

The NSF panel of judges included former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, 14 recipients of the President’s National Medal of Science, and four former astronauts.

mySouTex.com - Conclusion ‘pretty creative’

As world leaders meet in Copenhagen to draft legislation to rein in the release of greenhouse gases and stem climate change, an R.A. Hall Elementary School student is questioning the science supporting global warming.

“There is not enough evidence to prove global warming is occurring,” fourth-grader Julisa Raquel Castillo concluded in a science project she entered in the campus’ annual science fair on Tuesday.