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...clumsiest and most tactless move, Pilbeam posted his letter to the UC leadership on his Web site. A far more reasonable course of action would have been to continue working in private with student leaders, or at least give them fair warning before publicly announcing such a drastic change. Instead, the Dean alienated virtually the entire student body by being so overtly disrespectful to their representatives. Adding insult to injury, since uploading the letter Pilbeam has refused to return phone calls, reply to student inquiries, or share access to the liability reports that originally put the UC party fund?...
...Reading Earth's Danger Signs I appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet even with an awareness of the crisis, I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit. This may necessitate enormous changes within our society. Claudia Schaer...
Reading Earth's Danger Signs I appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept.24]. Yet even with an awareness of the crisis, I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit. This may necessitate enormous changes within our society. Claudia Schaer, CALGARY...
...look at the median predictions of how global warming will affect the world. But a lot of people in climate change talk about meeting thresholds beyond which we would face drastic changes. If there were, say, a 15% risk of hitting one of these thresholds - even if it weren't the most likely scenario - shouldn't that change the calculation quite...
...appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit...