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Environmental speaker to come to campus, aims to dispute myths surrounding global warming
Liz Ruocco
Issue date: 3/30/09 Section: News
Commitment for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), an environmental group on campus, will host speaker Chris Horner on campus this Tuesday. Horner, who has appeared on "The Daily Show," Fox, CNN and NBC, will speak at 7 p.m. in Castleman 212.
Horner will address the issue of global warming, as well as the many myths that surround it.
He will discuss the ongoing issue of carbon dioxide emissions in the environment, and the ever-persisting myth that humans are the direct cause of it.
Horner will go on to refute the idea that there is a correlation between an increase in carbon dioxide gas and temperature in the environment, which is supported by the Hartland Institute.
He will also go on to discuss the melting glaciers and their trend line.
Horner's research show that, according to a trend line regarding melting glaciers, glaciers started melting over 180 years ago before man was using hydrocarbons. The temperature is increasing because we are in an era after an Ice Age, and although the temperature is increasing, it is simply getting back to it's average.
CFACT is a new environmental group on campus that is non-partisan and, unlike other groups on campus, it does not take money from the fees paid by UConn students, according to a press release. They recently had a laptop drive that gave laptops to citizens of Southern Mexico, and they will host a Plant a Tree event on Earth Day.
Andrew Provencher, a 4th-semester political science major and founder of CFACT, wants to bring to attention a petition signed by 32,000 scientists that don't agree with the Kyoto protocol, which calls for a cut of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. If the government were to cut carbon emissions, they would have a monopoly on energy and energy sources would be controlled by the government.
"The problem is that politics and science are mixing," Provencher said. "We need to stick to scientific data and scientists must be free to make their own connections rather than making it political."
Provencher encourages people with all viewpoints and any questions to come to Castleman and talk to Horner.
Horner will address the issue of global warming, as well as the many myths that surround it.
He will discuss the ongoing issue of carbon dioxide emissions in the environment, and the ever-persisting myth that humans are the direct cause of it.
Horner will go on to refute the idea that there is a correlation between an increase in carbon dioxide gas and temperature in the environment, which is supported by the Hartland Institute.
He will also go on to discuss the melting glaciers and their trend line.
Horner's research show that, according to a trend line regarding melting glaciers, glaciers started melting over 180 years ago before man was using hydrocarbons. The temperature is increasing because we are in an era after an Ice Age, and although the temperature is increasing, it is simply getting back to it's average.
CFACT is a new environmental group on campus that is non-partisan and, unlike other groups on campus, it does not take money from the fees paid by UConn students, according to a press release. They recently had a laptop drive that gave laptops to citizens of Southern Mexico, and they will host a Plant a Tree event on Earth Day.
Andrew Provencher, a 4th-semester political science major and founder of CFACT, wants to bring to attention a petition signed by 32,000 scientists that don't agree with the Kyoto protocol, which calls for a cut of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. If the government were to cut carbon emissions, they would have a monopoly on energy and energy sources would be controlled by the government.
"The problem is that politics and science are mixing," Provencher said. "We need to stick to scientific data and scientists must be free to make their own connections rather than making it political."
Provencher encourages people with all viewpoints and any questions to come to Castleman and talk to Horner.
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larrydalooza
posted 3/30/09 @ 10:21 AM EST
Experimentation is the foundation of science. Data is the what is gathered from experimentation. Data without experimentation is chaos. Blaming CO2 for global warming is akin to blaming butterflies. (Continued…)
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