Sheriff Joe
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Thank Trump, deregulation is the new black.
Climate and Weather
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Snapshot from Mammoth webcam of one of the chalets above MM Inn, showing the need for second-story escape doors --
http://camproxy.mammothmountain.com/snaps/Main Lodge/1485369010032.jpg
http://camproxy.mammothmountain.com/snaps/Main Lodge/1485369010032.jpg
Sheriff Joe
DA
Fossil fuel divestment crashes and burns at the University of Denver
I may be wrong, but I think this is what Bruddahs' talkinbout.
Students and faculty at the University of Denver walked out of classes on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s climate change denial, organizers said.
More than 100 students joined the protest outside the Driscoll Student Center starting at 11:30 Monday.
“The walkout was lead by the student organization Divest DU, which calls on Chancellor Chopp and the Board of Trustees to divest the university’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry in order to combat climate change and protect all of our futures,” organizers said in a statement Sunday.
Regarding divestment, the Board adopted the task force recommendation that divestment in fossil fuel companies, or any other industry, would not be an effective means of mitigating global warming nor would it be consistent with the endowment’s long-term purpose to provide enduring benefit to present and future students, faculty, staff and other stakeholders. Rather, the University of Denver’s greatest ability to mitigate climate change and foster a sustainable future lies in deploying its core competencies: education, research and the ability to foster informed community discourse and in accelerating its sustainability in its operations.
A strategy of industry stigmatization drives a wedge between the University of Denver and the fossil fuel companies that represent an important part of the economic base of Colorado and the nation. Equally important, stigmatizing fossil fuel companies inherently involves stigmatization of their employees as well. As a general matter, the panel believes that stigmatizing individuals based upon a career choice to work for an employer engaged in a lawful enterprise is inappropriate.
I may be wrong, but I think this is what Bruddahs' talkinbout.
Students and faculty at the University of Denver walked out of classes on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s climate change denial, organizers said.
More than 100 students joined the protest outside the Driscoll Student Center starting at 11:30 Monday.
“The walkout was lead by the student organization Divest DU, which calls on Chancellor Chopp and the Board of Trustees to divest the university’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry in order to combat climate change and protect all of our futures,” organizers said in a statement Sunday.
Regarding divestment, the Board adopted the task force recommendation that divestment in fossil fuel companies, or any other industry, would not be an effective means of mitigating global warming nor would it be consistent with the endowment’s long-term purpose to provide enduring benefit to present and future students, faculty, staff and other stakeholders. Rather, the University of Denver’s greatest ability to mitigate climate change and foster a sustainable future lies in deploying its core competencies: education, research and the ability to foster informed community discourse and in accelerating its sustainability in its operations.
A strategy of industry stigmatization drives a wedge between the University of Denver and the fossil fuel companies that represent an important part of the economic base of Colorado and the nation. Equally important, stigmatizing fossil fuel companies inherently involves stigmatization of their employees as well. As a general matter, the panel believes that stigmatizing individuals based upon a career choice to work for an employer engaged in a lawful enterprise is inappropriate.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Quite simply, donʻt bite the hand that feeds you.
Multi Sport
DA
Wez better build a spaceship... Doomsday clock has been moved up!
Wez
DA
Right? The Creationists certainly won't be building it...
Multi Sport
DA
Daniel Miller
SILVER ELITE
Wez
DA
Been there, done that, people who reject Science in favor of the biblical narrative of Earth's Creation, are not the kind of people who seek out jobs where that biblical narrative is blown out of the water.
https://answersingenesis.org/kids/astronomy/why-are-stars-millions-of-light-years-away/
Bruddah IZ
DA
Wez
DA
Don't confuse being religious with believing in Creationism, they are not the same. I know plenty of Christians, very few if any Creationists.
Daniel Miller
SILVER ELITE
Here is the definitive study: The MIT Survey on Science, Religion and Origins: the Belief Gap, Feb. of 2013
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/survey/survey.pdf
The Study's Conclusion: "We found a striking gap between people’s personal beliefs and the official views of the faiths to which they belong. Whereas Gallup reports that 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago, we find that only 11% belong to religions openly rejecting evolution."
Wez
DA
Interesting, not sure I get that last statement, is that saying of the 46%, 11% belong to a religion or specific branch of Christianity that says their members should believe "this way" or else?
Multi Sport
DA
How does that in any way back up what you have posted. You're making assumptions.Been there, done that, people who reject Science in favor of the biblical narrative of Earth's Creation, are not the kind of people who seek out jobs where that biblical narrative is blown out of the water.
https://answersingenesis.org/kids/astronomy/why-are-stars-millions-of-light-years-away/
Wez
DA
Gee, let me consult the encyclopedia on which space industry participants believe in Creationism, I'm sure that's a best seller. Of course I'm making assumptions, but it's an educated guess, imao. Get over yourself....
Senator, Astronaut, Marine Corp. Pilot. Colonel - John Glenn :
“To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible,” Glenn told reporters in 1998, just after returning from his final trip to space at age 77. “It just strengthens my faith.”
He told the Associated Press, “I don’t see that I’m any less religious by the fact that I can appreciate the fact that science just records that we change with evolution and time, and that’s a fact. It doesn’t mean it’s less wondrous and it doesn’t mean that there can’t be some power greater than any of us that has been behind and is behind whatever is going on.”
Science and faith could coexist at the very highest levels, he insisted — just as they had in his life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-saw-the-face-of-god/?utm_term=.9b14b3b7c0c8
“To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible,” Glenn told reporters in 1998, just after returning from his final trip to space at age 77. “It just strengthens my faith.”
He told the Associated Press, “I don’t see that I’m any less religious by the fact that I can appreciate the fact that science just records that we change with evolution and time, and that’s a fact. It doesn’t mean it’s less wondrous and it doesn’t mean that there can’t be some power greater than any of us that has been behind and is behind whatever is going on.”
Science and faith could coexist at the very highest levels, he insisted — just as they had in his life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-saw-the-face-of-god/?utm_term=.9b14b3b7c0c8
Wez
DA
I agree and have said so (a million times). Being religious does not exclude you from being Scientific and working in the field of Science.
Holding the belief that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago, imao, would make it tough for you to work in a field like the Space Industry, where your daily work is a rebuke of your faith.
Multi Sport
DA
Multi Sport
DA
Multi Sport
DA
Sorry, that doesn't count to Wez. He's busy jumping to his own assumptions.
Wez
DA
How stupid are you, seriously? When your faith tells you the Earth was created less than 10k years ago and your everyday work life depends on Science that contradicts that faith based belief, you're going to have an intellectual dilemma everyday.
I know you don't question a thing and are to dumb to have an intellectual dilemma...