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An overwhelming majority of scientists, including numerous UCLA researchers, agree that we have to take action to curb the effects of climate change.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block joined leaders in higher education from more than 35 states today calling on incoming president Donald Trump's administration to protect the Earth's climate.
Chancellors and presidents from more than 170 colleges and universities signed on to the open letter calling for "aggressive climate action."
Trump has at times described climate change as a hoax and proposed withdrawing from the historic Paris climate agreement signed at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2015. An overwhelming majority of scientists, including numerous UCLA researchers, agree that climate change is caused by humans and will result in dramatic, disruptive changes within this century. UCLA research has projected that without drastic action, Los Angeles will heat up an average of 4 to 5 degrees by midcentury.
"As a university," Block said, "we have a deep commitment to research innovative solutions for tomorrow, to serve the greater public good and to educate the leaders of future generations. Strong federal and international climate action is critical to this mission."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:36AM
An "open letter" is the last refuge of the scientifically incompetent; it's exactly the kind of drivel one would expect from modern institutions of so-called "higher learning", where hard-nosed, unblinking inquiry has been replaced with safe spaces.
The truth of the matter is that there is a dispute about global warming; there are questions about not only the way measurements are made and how those measurements are interpreted, but also about the models used to make predictions, including questions about the correctness of the application of the very mathematical principles on which those models are based.
On one side, you've got politicians clamoring for power, researchers clamoring for money, and useful idiots clamoring for a sense of purpose; on the other side, you've got people risking their careers (and now their personal safety) to present thought that is contrary to the fabricated "consensus". Hmmm... I wonder what history tells us about other such asymmetric struggles in science.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:00AM
Cowardly drivel like these:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/01/open-letter-to-mr-khizr-khan.html [foxnews.com]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/7/open-letter-colin-kaepernick/ [washingtontimes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @08:22AM
WattsUpWithThat caught my attention with a recent tweet:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/18/u-s-average-temperature-16f-colder-than-any-time-last-winter-and-winter-hasnt-started-yet/ [wattsupwiththat.com]
Which I felt was very misleading of them re: weather vs climate.
It's downright obnoxious given the months of high arctic temperatures and low arctic ice extent this year ( which I can't see mentioned ? ).
That's a pretty serious mistake for "the most read climate website" to make by accident.