Your Pension, Your Future, and Your Students’ Future

BY DON NONINI, SHELDON POLLOCK, AND DAN SEGAL Over the past decade, faculty have most often encountered the problem of financial investments and the climate crisis when their students mobilized to divest their school’s endowments from fossil fuels. That mobilization, across some 1600 educational, religious, and other institutions world-wide, has been stunningly successful: to date,…

Don’t Teach, Strike!

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement, “Don’t Teach, Strike!  A Call to Educators Worldwide to Take Action for Climate Justice on September 20th,” was issued by nine U.S. faculty members, including AAUP Committee A member Michael Mann, and has since been endorsed by many more.  To add your name to this call go to…

He’s Gotten a Degree from MIT

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH At a House committee hearing on “The Need for Leadership to Combat Climate Change and Protect National Security,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie was questioning former Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry is regarded as an expert on climate change who helped to develop the Paris climate accord. He has criticized President Trump…

Image of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The photos of the devastating destruction caused by the fires that swept through Paradise, California, are shocking—particularly those of vehicles abandoned to the flames or, worse, caught up in the flames with people inside. I have found two of those images especially affecting—one of a school bus left at an angle…

Even before the Latest Outbreak of Fires in California

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The image is from Popular Science [https://www.popsci.com/science/]. The current home page features an article on the current fires, “California’s Forest Management Isn’t the Problem” [https://www.popsci.com/forest-management-california-fires].   Writing for the Washington Post, Susan Svrluga has reported on the controversy surrounding a shelter-in-place order at Pepperdine University: Pepperdine University’s 3,600 undergraduates were ordered…

Sidelining Science Under Trump

ДBY HANK REICHMAN A new survey of 63,000 scientific experts across 16 federal agencies, conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in cooperation with the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology at Iowa State University, shows that the Trump administration continues to “sideline science.”  According to the survey, government scientists report iissues including “censorship…