Florida's Global Warming University

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 16, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Florida’s Global Warming University

Malcolm A. Kline, November 16, 2009

Not content to push global warming theories on students even when temperatures don’t support them, Florida Gulf Coast University is trying to censor skepticism off of its campus. When Brandon Wasicsko of the FGCU Eagles 4 Liberty club attempted to advertise a showing of the documentary Not Evil, Just Wrong, Patrick J. Greene, an associate professor of Educational Technology, went berserk. “This email is a violation of the FGCU policy to not use our email system for Political propaganda,” Greene wrote in an electronic missive to Wasicsko on October 19, 2009. “It also is a fundamentalist right-wing set of lies about the environmental necessity to control our carbon emissions so that our children and there’s [sic] can have the same quality of life that we enjoy.”

“This film, [sic] also represents the polar opposite of what FGCU is trying to inculcate into our students through the Colloquium requirement, namely a profound respect and understanding of our environmental responsibilities. If you feel that our lust for power should allow corporations to damage our health, well-being and future then present that idea in a forum that shows some responsibility to the University that is educating you.”

Greene then forwarded his correspondence with Wasicsko to the provost at FGCU. Although he toned down his reaction, his biases still come through.

“I did not view the trailer you sent out, because I was not objecting to the content, only the delivery method,” he admitted in an e-mail to Eagles 4 Liberty on October 27, 2009. “So, I am not aware of your ideas.”...

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