Time to take action on climate change
By Jackie Kruszewski and Gabe Silver | February 27, 2007THE RECENT report in this newspaper on the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment highlighted the inadequate response from our own institution.It's high time that the University community was made aware of President Casteen's inaction on environmental and energy policy.From academic rivals like UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania to state schools with a much larger student bodies like the University of Florida, the University is being outdone. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the most authoritative and conservative body investigating human-caused climate change, recently reported with scientific certainty that human activities are warming the climate, driving shifts towards more erratic and severe weather events and sea level rise.
