Climate Change – The College Fix

Dartmouth ‘climate justice’ protestors arraigned on charges of criminal trespassing

College Fix Staff — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:42:54 +0000

Arrested students led a group advocating ‘anticapitalist’ policies, condemning Israel as ‘apartheid state’ Two Dartmouth student protestors arrested during a sit-in on school property in October have been charged with criminal misdemeanor counts of trespassing. Undergraduates Roan Wade and Kevin Engel told The Dartmouth, the school’s student newspaper, that they are not guilty and intend to…

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Nobel prize winner canceled by IMF for climate change skepticism

College Fix Staff — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:53:22 +0000

The canceled talk was ‘postponed indefinitely’ The International Monetary Fund has no clear plans to reschedule a talk by a Nobel prize winner and highly accomplished physicist who is skeptical of climate change. WATCH: MORE: Climate realist’s talk canceled IMAGE: The College…

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University of Houston getting rid of plastic bags, straws

Emily Rosecrans - Clemson University — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 05:01:48 +0000

‘It is a pointless exercise in futility. What UH does will have no discernible effect,’ eco-realist argues University of Houston students returning to campus for the spring semester will see a major reduction in available plastic products as student government leaders aim to reduce plastic consumption. The UH Student Government Association is considering a bill to prohibit plastic bags and…

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Climate realist’s UN talk ‘postponed indefinitely’ despite past promises

Hudson Crozier - University of North Texas — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:08:04 +0000

‘I suspect that people don’t like being told and or having it said that they have made trillion-dollar errors, which is effectively what I’m saying’ The International Monetary Fund has not followed through on its promise to reschedule an event featuring a physicist critical of its positions on climate change. It appears now the talk is officially “dead” according to the canceled climate change…

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Michigan State climate activists disrupt Buttigieg speech

College Fix Staff — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:46:27 +0000

In a coinciding campus event, picketing protesters demanded a call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war Michigan State University student climate activists protested Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s speech at the Kellogg Center on campus Wednesday night, leading to one arrest. Activists from the organization Climate Defiance chanted “Stop Petrol Pete!

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Penn affiliates say university violates ‘fiduciary duty’ with oil investments: complaint

Jack Applewhite - University of Georgia — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:03:53 +0000

Penn’s investments are ‘imperiling the university’s financial and physical condition’ University of Pennsylvania’s investments in oil, gas, and coal violate the school’s “fiduciary duty,” according to a complaint filed with the attorney general’s office and supported by students, faculty, and outside groups. Attorneys at the Climate Defense Project, an environmental advocacy group that fights…

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Stop clearing thousands of acres to build solar panels: Harvard study

Elaine Gunthorpe - Christendom College — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:04:42 +0000

Solar panels have contributed to deforestation, report finds While “more solar energy” is needed in Massachusetts, deforestation is not the way to go, according to a study from Harvard University. “Since 2010, over 5,000 acres of natural and working lands have been destroyed for solar development in Massachusetts, resulting in the emission of over half a million metric tons of CO₂— more than…

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NYU caves to students, divests from fossil fuels

Liam Siegler - Gordon College — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:09:49 +0000

‘This is a huge win for climate justice,’ student group stated New York University recently announced that it will forego investments in any company primarily engaged in fossil fuel extraction or discovery. William Berkley, chair of the school’s board of trustees, announced the decision in a letter to Sunrise NYU, the school’s chapter of an environmental activist group.

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More than 1,600 scientists and other scholars sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ declaration

MJ Cadman - Franciscan University of Steubenville — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:01:29 +0000

Goal is to ‘counter the almost universal media climate catastrophe narrative,’ scientist says A total of 1,609 scientists, professors and other scholars have signed on to a new declaration that argues there is no climate change crisis. “There is no climate emergency” is the title of the declaration that consists of 53 pages’ worth of signatories from across the globe…

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Vanderbilt professor: Climate change stories ‘cater to the white consciousness’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:49:32 +0000

‘Texts that actually just reify whiteness’ A professor of English at Vanderbilt University recently gave a talk about how the genre of climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” has a problem with “its intersection [of] race and genre.” Teresa Goddu (pictured), whose advocacy led to the creation of Vanderbilt’s Environmental and Sustainability Studies minor, told an audience at the Novel Seminar Series…

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