This is the home for the Dean of Agriculture, slated for renovation so they can host weddings there! Weddings! WTF does that have to do with getting an education?
MADISON, WI as of 8:56 am CST
28° CLOUDY
feels like 17°
H 37° / L 32°
Otherwise it's just virtue signaling.
Can someone break the news to them that air travels freely across campus boundaries?
They need to institute a “five year plan”.
The Faculty will excuse themselves from any action.
Note: I am a faculty member at a university
So the faculty will be walking instead of riding, living in houses without heat or air-conditioning, not eating meat or dairy products, etc.?
And no more dope smoking!
It produces CO2 and pollutes the air!
GREAT argument for not running up the national debt and dumping that burden on the unborn. If only liberals could control their spending...
The real reason....”The resolution encourages funding...”
They could do their bit by shutting off HVAC systems in the admin offices and the boardroom. You know, put a little of their good intentions into some action that can actually be felt.
The real climate deniers are those who think they can stop the climate from changing by modifying their lifestyles and energy choices.
Considering that where I’m sitting was buried beneath a mile or more of ice just a geological heartbeat ago, their delusions of being able to stop climate changes exhibit a group hysteria worthy of psychological investigation.
This is the home for the Dean of Agriculture, slated for renovation so they can host weddings there! Weddings! WTF does that have to do with getting an education?
The UW-Madison faculty politburo can huff and puff all it wants, Gov. Walker and the Republican majority in our state Senate & Assembly are keeping a close eye on the UW system budgets.
That is typical academe-speech.
Live and suffer in the now and forget the future . Any advancement that comes along forget it ,they must stay in 2017
Are these University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members qualified for their jobs? Could they each pass a simple test of what is the scientific method, and what is it NOT?
I suspect that they would all FAIL.
Close the school and start over is one solution, maybe with one quarter of the staff...
Exactly. No electricity and no heat for a couple of weeks. They can bask in the glow of global warming.
I was born & raised in Wisconsin. I came within a week of registering for classes there in 1957, but due to a week long argument with my mother over what major I wanted to study, I never did attend here. Went to work at Kroger Divisional offices instead.
I can remember how cold it can get in Wisconsin.
I remember one cold spell where the temperature was almost 70 BELOW Zero-—and this was LONG before the days of putting together the words: WIND CHILL FACTOR, etc. There were 6 vehicles parked in our driveway-—all with a headbolt heater running, and ONLY MY 1933 Chevy pickup truck with a 1952 straight six engine would start. I push started all the other 5 vehicles. I can remember tires so cold that they had FLAT spots until you got some distance down the road.
There is NO WAY the buildings in Wisconsin can be heated with ‘other’ methods -— but maybe when some of these fools literally FREEZE to death, they will learn something. AND- it is damned hard to dig a grave in those temps, also.
Urban planning is always a euphemism for communist central planning.
Money is not value, it represents data about value. One of the things this data accurately indicates is energy use. If A costs more than B then A is almost always using more energy somewhere along its supply chain, and therefore is almost always polluting more. If solar or wind electricity costs 4 times more than natural gas electricity, it's pretty simple to track down where it is stressing Earth's limited resources more. Just follow the money, i.e. energy consumption data.
It is possible to be carbon neutral but it mainly involves fertilizing the open oceans to grow more saltwater algae. Most of the oxygen in the air came from this ancient plant eating CO2.
I entirely second this opinion, and as it is employee driven, take a portion of salary from all employees (balanced for their income) to pay for it.
And they should be carbon neutral by 2020, why let 30 years of damage occur; retroactively assign fees to pay for any extra costs.
Close the School, Fire Everyone, Raze all the Buildings, COMMIT SUICIDE, then and only then will you be “carbon “neutral”