This year, climate change was a top concern for college students and professors, and they found plenty of outlandish ways to express their concerns.
From disruptions to attempts to control human behavior, Campus Reform has gathered a few of the most outrageous things done on campus this year in the name of combatting climate change.
1. 50 climate protesters who disrupted Harvard-Yale football game learn their punishment
During the November 23 Harvard vs. Yale football game, student climate-protesters from both schools raided the field and insisted that the university erase their holdings on Puerto Rican debt and cease fossil fuel investments.
The protestors had already delayed the game for thirty minutes before the police intervened. Fifty people were reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, and the judge handed a sentence of five community-service hours to at least 29 protesters.
The judge said that as long as these conditions are met, the charges will be dropped. Later, some people from the Democrat party applauded the move made by these students by saying, “When people come together to stand up for justice, we win.”
The judge said that as long as these conditions are met, the charges will be dropped. Later, some people from the Democrat party applauded the move made by these students by saying, “When people come together to stand up for justice, we win.”
U of Michigan created “guidelines” to help individuals spot “fake news” about climate change as part of a study that concluded that this type of “fake news” too easily spread on Facebook.
The researchers remarked that this research opens the door for research on other fake news, but says that fake news about climate change is especially problematic because climate change itself is an undeniable “widespread, global problem.”
“Our findings suggest that being exposed to guidelines for evaluating news quality can lead individuals to be less likely to trust, ‘like,’ and share fake news about climate change,” study co-author and UMich postdoctoral research fellow Caitlin Drummond told Campus Reform.
A group of environmental protesters crashed a College Republicans event titled “Climate Forum: A Rebuttal.” One protester was decked out in a clown costume and repeatedly honked a bike horn in an attempt to prevent the event from carrying on.
Police were called to the scene after the protesters refused to leave the meeting, When the police entered the room, protesters started chanting, “What do we want? Climate justice. When do we want it? Now!”
No one at the event was arrested, but police did prevent protesters from entering and causing further disruption
In August, the University of London banned the sale of beef products and increased the tax on plastic water bottles. This action was taken in light of the belief that beef could be damaging to the environment because cows produce methane gas.
“Our house is on fire…I believe Frances Corner and the university management are realizing this and making these changes to put their part of the house fire out.” Regarding climate change, Goldsmiths Students’ Union president Joe Leam said.
5. Taxpayers’ money is used to fund Harvard’s Climate Change Tree
Researchers at Harvard have used money from the U.S. Government to make a tree that has a twitter account to tweet about climate change concerns.
This tree, dubbed the “Witness Tree,” is equipped with various measuring devices and uses the information collected to send automated tweets about the weather and other factors.
It tweets in the first person, which will supposedly, “make it relatable to a larger audience,” but also allows the tree to include various implications in its otherwise scientific tweets.
“The last 2 days were extremely hot for July. When is this heatwave going to end?” the tree tweeted over the summer.”
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The UK needs a ‘witness tree’. The king-in-waiting, Prince Charles, is known to have conversations with plants and could probably translate for the witless tree (no, that wasn’t a typographic error there).
Charles is also to be King of Australia and is concerned about climate change Down Under. “The fact that significant portions of the Great Barrier Reef on Australia’s eastern coast have been severely degraded or lost over the last few years is both a tragedy and also, I would have thought, a very serious wakeup call,” the Prince was reported as saying in 2017.
Maybe he can talk to the corals as well? That would keep him busy. They haven’t disappeared. They just can’t be seen by people who don’t look.
London University Forced Veganism on everybody thats just about what former Beatle Paul McCartney dose with all stagehands forced veganism
The jerk in the Clown make-up should had his stupid bike horn shoved up where the sun never shines
That tree probably has a higher IQ than the people paying any attention to it and it’s tweets…..
We now know that polar bears are thriving while atmospheric CO2 increases. Write them off as useful propaganda tools.
If that Harvard twitter tree could actually report the truth, it would tell us that its rings are growing wider. It’s doing swell.
I read M. Mann’s tree ring proxy data simply, that narrow tree growth rings represent poor years, and wider rings are the result of good years.
How could you see it any other way? A good year for a tree is a good year for everything, except maybe the price of lumber.
The Harvard/Yale proesters i would like to see these jerks giving jobs like Building Bird Houses and Feeders,Plant some Trees,Clean up a Highway and after one of their Earth Day Events have those Georgetown Gate Crashers put out as litter picker uppers bring some Common Sense the the London University and cut off all funding to their Climate Tree after all it can get along by itself