A joint effort to stop global warming
Letter
Joseph Takach
Issue date: 3/1/07 Section: Opinions
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Global warming on campus has finally gotten some national attention. The work that the University and its students are doing to address the problem is getting noticed by powerful players like Rep. Frank Pallone who agreed to come to a screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" after being invited by students of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group.
The fact that Pallone came to speak to students shows that they are starting to gain a notable voice in the national sphere. This event must mark a paradigm shift in the public eye and in politics that will help to inspire and educate students and citizens about solutions to the problem that we have caused.
In fact, this comes after the release of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which states that there is a 90 percent consensus that humans have caused global warming. It also states that larger and faster changes in climate may occur in our future.
Pallone's visit means that students are finally starting to gain a voice in the national sphere.
Rutgers is beginning to emerge as a leader on the subject, because last week, a group of distinguished University scientists held a panel about the problem and possible solutions entitled "Global Warming: It's Later than We Think; But It's Not Too Late!"
During the panel last week, images of melting glaciers in Greenland were shown and the overuse of fossil fuels such as coal was stressed. The consensus among the scientists was that there must be a national goal to implement new energy-efficient solutions for everyday life - such as solar panels and more efficient hybrid cars.
The attention devoted to the subject of global warming is a victory for students of the Campus Climate Challenge campaign of NJPIRG Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which seeks to inspire and educate students about ways that they can reduce the trend individually. But the campaign is just getting started, and we need to convince more politicians to take action other than Pallone, but this is an important step.
The fact that Pallone came to speak to students shows that they are starting to gain a notable voice in the national sphere. This event must mark a paradigm shift in the public eye and in politics that will help to inspire and educate students and citizens about solutions to the problem that we have caused.
In fact, this comes after the release of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which states that there is a 90 percent consensus that humans have caused global warming. It also states that larger and faster changes in climate may occur in our future.
Pallone's visit means that students are finally starting to gain a voice in the national sphere.
Rutgers is beginning to emerge as a leader on the subject, because last week, a group of distinguished University scientists held a panel about the problem and possible solutions entitled "Global Warming: It's Later than We Think; But It's Not Too Late!"
During the panel last week, images of melting glaciers in Greenland were shown and the overuse of fossil fuels such as coal was stressed. The consensus among the scientists was that there must be a national goal to implement new energy-efficient solutions for everyday life - such as solar panels and more efficient hybrid cars.
The attention devoted to the subject of global warming is a victory for students of the Campus Climate Challenge campaign of NJPIRG Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which seeks to inspire and educate students about ways that they can reduce the trend individually. But the campaign is just getting started, and we need to convince more politicians to take action other than Pallone, but this is an important step.