In the light of the historic agreement in Paris, I was inspired to write my two cents on the dialogue between current University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel and the Divest and Invest initiative covered by the Michigan Daily. For transparency’s sake, I study many of the terrifying outcomes and potential innovative solutions in regards …
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by Mayank Vikas In Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education, Michael Simkins famously wrote that “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” For the last two weeks, diplomats and world leaders from over 190 countries met in Paris precisely …
EXPERTS ADVISORY ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan faculty experts shared their reactions to the Paris climate agreement announced Saturday. Also, reaction from two graduate students who attended the event as part of a 10-person U-M delegation. Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, teaches a course on the climate change problem solving that …
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by Dr. Ricky Rood The Conference of the Parties - 21, COP21, is starting to wind down, and our University of Michigan Delegation first-week flight of students is back and the second-week flight is in Paris. I hope that some of you have followed the students on Facebook and Twitter. ( @ClimateBlue on Twitter, http://www.facebook.com/ClimateBlue …
by Dr. Ricky Rood The Conference of the Parties - 21, COP21, is upon us, and our University of Michigan Delegation first-week flight of students is in Paris. They are in the frenzy of lots of people with lots of energy and events and ideas. I JUST heard on the radio, KOA in Denver, that …
by Dr. Ricky Rood Well, COP21 is upon us, and of course, I have made it through about half of what I intended to make it through. My original plan was to go through all the climate-change papers I could find with Exxon authors, then write a little about technology, then a list of what …
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