EDITORIAL: FIU hosting climate change denier detracts from message
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min read
The science is settled: 97 percent of climate change scientists agree that climate change is a redality and that it is man-made. Due to carbon pollution, our planet is warming and creating dirtier weather such as extreme droughts, super storms and wildfires.
This editorial was co-written with a PantherNOW staff writer and was featured in PantherNOW. The article talks about the controversy of FIU inviting a hard-right think tank funded by oil companies to a climate change workshop.
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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director
The science is settled: 97 percent of climate change scientists agree that climate change is a redality and that it is man-made. Due to carbon pollution, our planet is warming and creating dirtier weather such as extreme droughts, super storms and wildfires.
FIU has supported many initiatives toward raising awareness of climate change —the College of Architecture + the Arts developed design solutions for the 22nd century coastal city, a project looks at the city, neighborhood and building scale, preventing further damage to our environment; FIU created the Sea Level Solutions Center, which coordinates and engages in local to global solutions-oriented research, education and strategic thinking.
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