<p>how are the professors at cornell as far as global climate change/warming is concerned? </p>
<p>are they liberals set on preaching SAVE THE EARTH...</p>
<p>or are they open minded and realize humans arent responsible for most if any of mother earth's mood swings?</p>
<p>If they were really open minded, they wouldn't draw the second conclusion either, since neither of your statements is clearly supported by science... there are conflicting conclusions being drawn by the experts.</p>
<p>But for the ones teaching environment-relevent classes, they are the preaching liberal type. In my experience at least.</p>
<p>"or are they open minded and realize humans arent responsible for most if any of mother earth's mood swings?" That was how it was in the past...but not now. Wake up</p>
<p>They aren't preachy unless u join clubs n efforts n such. I feel that people are aware that there is a problem tho n there are some university efforts to help solve it and sponsor people who spread awareness...which is a great thing.</p>
<p>ummm from what i learned in climate and global warming this semester...humans have impacted the climate majorly. yea there are natural fluctuations in recorded history (from the most recent ice age 10K years ago until today), but there is no reason other than human activity for why the CO2 and CH4 levels are so much higher. there was, at point, a little ice age from about 1800-1920, but since the 70s there has been a constant rise in temperature. you can thank the hummers on the road, increased farming, and various other reasons for this. but even if we change our ways now by completely cutting our carbon footprint, we wont see a change or impact in slowing down global warming for abotu 200 years. but if we dont do something NOW everything is going to be a lot worse in the next century or so. increased droughts, more frequent extreme weather patterns, a lot of deaths from heat stroke, deaths of animal species, higher quantities of UVA/B rays, etc. </p>
<p>you'll think in january "omg where is the global warming and why isnt it in ithaca? it totally doesnt exist"...but then you realize that winter last year wasnt as bad...and we will probably see less and less snow. its definitely hitting close to home though. DC is usually in the low 20s in january and february...this year, it was in the 50s, 60s, and it even reached the 70s for a couple of weeks. 70. in february. if that isnt global warming, i dont know what is</p>
<p>but hey...i dont want to appear to be a "SAVE THE EARTH" liberal on CC. however, if thats what liberals are preaching, i dont think it would hurt for anyone to do their part and help out.</p>
<p>Thought this thread was going to speculate on how much better Cornell's winters will be once global warming kicks in ;)</p>
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I would not be so quick to attribute that solely to global climate change. This is more likely a result of regional fluctuations in weather. Climatic changes are more like gradual (at least geologically speaking) changes. </p>
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<p>The way in which you pose your question is, I have to say, not very open-minded. There happens to be an overwhelming amount of evidence that humans are worsening the Greenhouse Effect. It's true that the Earth experiences climatic "mood swings," but within the last couple of centuries we have introduced an unprecedented amount of Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It's still debated what exactly will happen, but models and calculations suggest that more Greenhouse gases will lead to an overall warming in temperature. </p>
<p>As for the atmosphere at Cornell, professors will generally promote environmental responsibility and thinking forward. They will generally stress the importance of being aware of and perhaps taking small measures to reduce your impact on the environment (for example, recycle, waste less energy, etc). They will also probably cite the importance of alternative energy in the future, and of slowly adjusting our lifestyles as times change (as we run out of oil, which we currently rely very heavily on). Besides maybe professors of environmental sciences, however, I would not expect Cornell professors to be one of those "tree-hugging liberals."</p>
<p>Laur, you are ignorant and so is your professor. Recent evidence suggest that sun spot activity has correlation with the cycle of global warming. In fact, sunspot activity has indeed increased over the past few years and can explain the climate change. I do agree that humans should change the problem of pollution but for you the make an extreme claim like "you can thank the hummers on the road, increased farming, and various other reasons for this." ... Is purely ignorant.</p>
<p>wow way to read my post. i explained IN THE FIRST SENTENCE "yea there are natural fluctuations in recorded history (from the most recent ice age 10K years ago until today) ...." but i dont think you wanted me to go into a semester's worth of detail here. why is bringing in the example of hummers showing ignorance? why else do you think GM is discontinuing that line? they are extreme gas guzzlers (ANYONE, no matter how "ignorant" they may be or accused of being knows that) and use a lot more fossil fuel than your prius out there. read any reliable report, and it would most certainly mention "cars". i agree with your point on sunspot activity, but i dont understand how my failure to mention that one factor can label me as being ignorant. i said there were natural fluctuations that can be factored in! its just that OUR activity is speeding up the process. and im not just saying this because i sat through and watched inconvenient truth a couple of years ago</p>
<p>WOW talk about ignorant lkmkl. No ur right, ur sooo smart...u even know more than an expert professor at an Ivy League university. Ur soooo smart u should make a movie and win an oscar and nobel prize about how human influenced global warming is all fake. A+ for effort. Rude idiot...</p>