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: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:32AM
"You are the one moving the goalposts, abandoning the sinking "it's all fabricated to secure funding" meme to clutch desperately at the even more ridiculous "it's not science, it's a religion" one.
I don't think you realize that the crux of your argument balances entirely on the idea that people as a whole don't find ways to justify their own fabrications and amplify their cognitive bias - something you, in the same breath, accuse half of the US population of doing. The half you disagree with, I mean.
Scientists pumping out papers to keep the cash flowing is not a "fake news" topic that suddenly appeared from Twitter. To think that some of those desperate debt-laden folk won't eventually come to believe some of the drivel they peddle to convince themselves they aren't liars is naive.