By Rudi Kiefer
...Denying the evidence (click here) from sea level or temperature measurements around the world is only part of the problem, not of the solution.
A town hall forum proposing solutions is coming to Gainesville this week. The Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is holding a public event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Brenau University’s Hosch Theatre, 429 Academy St.
“This isn’t an effort at indoctrination,” said Dr. Vernon Dixon, a CCL member and retired psychiatrist. “The town hall discussion ranges from scientific to moral and conservative aspects.”
Speakers like Mark Farmer, biology professor at UGA, the Rev. Bill Coates of Gainesville First Baptist Church and the Rev. John Cromartie will bring a large variety of viewpoints to the table. Brenau University, the University of North Georgia and the Citizens’ Climate Lobby are jointly sponsoring the event to present a large cross-section of the greater Hall community.
Nationwide, the Citizens’ Climate Lobby is focused on educating the public and proposing responsible emissions policies. But even on a small scale, citizens can reduce pollution and atmospheric carbon load. Instead of burning winter’s yard debris, get a chipper and shred the twigs and branches. Mixed with leaves, it produces mulch that’ll protect topsoil from erosion and fertilize the ground. Burning only turns wooden plant debris into carbon dioxide....
One professor's journey proves Americans do persevere. I do not believe Dr. Kiefer is unusual for American academics. The scientists in the USA are part of the same understanding as the PhD.s that line the IPCC. The majority of American scientists have walked the same journey as Dr. Kiefer.
22 March 2011
By Marc Eggers
...The theme for World Water Day 2011: "Water for the Cities." (click here)
Brenau President Dr. Ed Schrader, an active environmentalist and trained geologist, set the tone for the discussion by stating that there is ample water, it just needs the right management.
"The fresh water that does fall on the continent is sufficient to supply the current ecosystems, human and non-human, for centuries and millennia to come," Schrader said. "The trouble is it doesn't always fall where and when you want it."
Schrader encouraged panel members and all in attendance to push for common ground and the implementation of sound water management.
Brenau Professor of Physical Science Dr. Rudi Kiefer said the disadvantage Lake Lanier had to contend with was having the "smallest drainage basin (for replenishing water that passes through the lake) in the county that feeds a lake which supplies water for a major metropolitan area."
Kiefer said rain that falls in nearby locations does not necessarily end up in Lake Lanier. Rainfall in Lula, the parking lot at Dawsonville Outlets, and at Johnson High School, for instance, does not end up in Lanier....
Their students are dedicated, bright and caring people. They want their learning to make the world a better place. It is the USA government that fails to represent the real people called Americans when it comes to the Climate Crisis. Once a leader in discovery of the dangers of Greenhouse Gases, the USA is now turning away from morality and gambling with the future for their own wealth.
September 27, 2017
By Rudi Kiefer
...“One of the objectives (click here) is to break down the basics of what they have ‘always known,’” Professor Ouattara says. “Most of these students grew up believing that we are ‘the civilized world,’’ and many other places are ‘uncivilized.’ Now they are put in the position of rebels, like Joseph Kony in Uganda, examining those two terms that they once were so sure about. When doubts develop, I can tell their minds are opening.”
Mind-opening experiences in Mary-Beth Looney’s honors course involve imagery, too, but it is a kinder, gentler type. A dimmed Disque Lecture Room in the John S. Burd Center brims with original art projections on the wall. Students, as well as faculty, dress up in continental-looking clothing, reminiscent of what Toulouse-Lautrec might have encountered on a stroll through the 19th century streets of his adopted hometown in France....
