Fourteen students with the UAF Alaska Native Rural Development Program will travel to Copenhagen to observe the United Nations Climate Change Conference, along with two UAF professors and a staff member. The trip is being funded by a grant through the National Science Foundation.
The trip to Copenhagen will cap a semester-long course that has served as a primer for the trip, said associate professor Mike Davis. The class has included presentations by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Mark Begich and various climate scientists.
The conference, which will be held from Dec. 7-18, is being billed as a potentially critical moment in the debate about climate change. About 20,000 people are expected to attend.
“There’s so many nations and so many people involved,” Davis said. “It’s going to be an incredible opportunity for these students.”
Most of the world’s nations — including superpowers like the U.S., China and India — are meeting to negotiate ways to reduce their output of greenhouse gases. President Barack Obama plans to be in Copenhagen for the final day of the conference.
Davis said it will be a powerful opportunity for students to
network with their peers and see the climate challenges faced by indigenous people.
Most of the students are Alaska Natives from rural parts of the state, and some have already seen up-close effects of climate change. Brice Eningowuk, from Shishmaref, has seen his village endangered by coastal erosion and melting sea ice.
Davis said the students won’t participate in the conference itself, but will give presentations at various other gatherings in the city, including an Indigenous Day event offered by the World Wildlife Fund.
A blog will be maintained about students’ experiences at the conference at akclimatewatch.blogspot.com.
I see no connection between the comments made and your concern for the health of the planet. If you think we are so ignorant, perhaps you can educate us.
the things in life that are worth doing are never easy and often require a great deal of self sacrifice.
it is obvious to any critical thinker that the array of human impacts on many global processes is larger now than it has been in recorded history.
the resources and services provided by ecosystems are finite, and a very small number of people are hogging most of those resources and disrupting many biological and chemical systems in the process.
Ignorance is pathetic.
Your point is exactly mine and I was being sarcastic.
Another would be that there is 'No debate' on this religious issue.
If the leaders of the world really cared they wouldn't need 1200 Limos and around 140 private jets to get together to discuss man made climate change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6736517/Copenhagen-climate-summit-1200-limos-140-private-planes-and-caviar-wedges.html - Check out this article on all the limos and private jets!
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/7708Change.html
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/TempChange.html
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He is just as credible... the "peer review" by the IPCC is only done by the scientists who are members of the IPCC working groups. And since the IPCC expelled any scientist who did not agree with the "consensus" position; that means the work is getting no peer review at all. They are all on the same side of the same coin.
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I wonder why the NM did not post Dr. Akasofu's commentary here on the web site? Isn't it the norm to post the Sunday Community Perspective columns?
I wish the students all the best, hope they learn a lot - and hope their plans include offsetting the carbon footprint of this junket, along with more doing and less witnessing in the future.
Any mention of the hacked emails that demonstrate the prostituted science of climate change will be dismissive at best.
Lear jet liberals and limousine liberals will be gathered in masse. Copenhagen's sex workers have already offered free service to delegates (just doing their part for mankind). This conference is a bad joke. But for only $16,000 a delegate or observer can shake the hand of the #1 grifter in the world, Albert Gore.
Somebody's really got to look into funding at UA -- a course that gets you a free Denmark trip? (Oh, not to mention the "presentations by Begich and Murkowski and various climate scientists.")
What was the name of this course again?
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name that polar explorer that travelled through an ice-free corridor about a hundred years ago.
Maybe it's all that snow melt off Kilimanjaro that's causing the problem.
Yeah, that must be it.
Brace for the one world government brought to you by Obongo and friends.