If you have free time Thursday (January 31), please attend the Global Warming presentation (Centennial Rooms, NSU Student Center, 5:00 p.m.). Add here your comments on the presentation. What did you find particularly interesting? Which speaker seemed to you most persuasive?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Global Warming Presentation
If you have free time Thursday (January 31), please attend the Global Warming presentation (Centennial Rooms, NSU Student Center, 5:00 p.m.). Add here your comments on the presentation. What did you find particularly interesting? Which speaker seemed to you most persuasive?
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I attended the "Global Warming Presentation" from 5:00 pm till 6:15 pm. What I found particularly interesting is that there was uncertainty with the questions asked by the science club group and the rest of the people that attended the presentation. I asked a question, my question was if the North and South ice caps were to melt what percentage of the current land mass would be under water. One of the professors stated that South Dakota would be close to beach front property. What speaker seemed to be most persuasive, my opinion was the guy on the web was most persuassive because he want everyone that watches his web site to spread the word that no matter which way we go we are heading for trouble. Just one way out ways the other consequences alot more than the other. I left the presentation early due to another class Art Appreciation and I also missed out on the pizza.
I found the presentation to be more speculation than anything. The gentleman from Brookings seemed to be fairly knowledgeable on the subject, but everyone tried to answer questions the best they could. I also thought the guy in the video said it pretty well. Its better to try to make changes to the planet rather than do nothing at all.
I attended from 5-6:15. It is true that everything seemed to be just speculation, and it was not the speakers' faults that it was only speculation. After all it is an unstable subject: everyone is supposed to be worried about the earth rising one degree in the last 100 years. I would agree that the guy on the web was the most persuasive mainly because the guys we saw in person weren't necessarily trying to persuade anyone..they were just there for their knowledge and to answer questions. The most interesting thing to me was that no one seemed sure of anything. I think if one thing is sure, this is: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."- Gen 8:22. So that takes care of many of the worries last night. While we should be good stewards of the earth, I don't think we should worry abou this!
Cherry Kolb
I had attended the global warming presentation on Thursday the 31st of January. I thought that the presentation was very interesting. Not only did we get the science part of global warming, we also got the political part of global warming. It also interested me that some of the test that the guy from SDSU has performed. He has tested on some of the ice in Greenland to see what is happening with global warming. It was also interesting to know how fast some of the ice caps are melting of the mountains and what it will do for flooding of land. I also felt that i agreed with some of the panal becasue they said part of the reason this is happening is because of the people. I think that is very true and that people have something to do with global warming.
I attended the Global Warming Presentation and stayed until the end of the movie. It was all very interesting and I believe that we definitely need to do something or our future grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have a whole different world to live in. We need to all - the whole world - make changes now to reverse the things that we have stupidly done to our world. There are alternate fuels that need to be explored and implemented while there is still time to turn this problem around. I believe we owe it to future generations to reverse the damage we have been doing.
Kathy Wendt
I went to the first hour of the global warming presentation. I was dissapointed that no one seemed to have any factual answers to any of the questions. They just had a bunch of theories, opinions, and ideas. I thought our options toward global warming were interesting. We can do something about it and go into global depression, or we can do nothing and Earth will basically end. I think the consequences of each solution are equal; neither of them are good. I don't think we should put too much effort into trying to stop global warming since we are not even sure if it exists. I thought the most persuasive speaker was the first one that spoke because he seemed to use the most facts.
Charity Wells
I attended the Global Warming Presentation on Jan. 31st. I thought the questions and discussions about the questions were very interesting to me because I have heard so much politics with global warming yet I didn't know many facts about it. It was very scary learning that we may not be able to stop the global warming with out having China and India on board. This was distubing because so many countries are on earth and 6 billion people, and just the US probably won't make a difference. I thought that the SDSU professor was the most interesting to listen to, he had great facts about global warming ang his ice researchl rather than opinions on global warming. This presentation was eye opening to me because i didn't know much about global warming, but at the same time it is scary because no one knows what will happen.
--Michelle Saiz
I also atttend the Global Warming Presentation. I'm not going to lie I have heard talks about it and have read several articles before attending the presentation, so after sitting through it i felt that nothing was accomplished. I wanted to get more straight forward facts but everything seemed to be word of mouth or heresay and ony the the SDSU professor seemed to have a real insight first hand. It would have been nice to had a little more experience from others on the matter itself. As questions were being asked, the answers were coming out with alot of unsurity. The responses were to the best of their knowledge but most of it was information that they heard from the same sources that i heard it from. The nice part about the presentation though was that at least the political side was also being represented. Although it wasnt the greatest presentation that i went to it did spark my interest to dig a little further into the matter.
Maggie Fedor
I attended the Global Warming presentation also, and the SDSU professor had me most convinced by his first hand experience with ice core studies; obviously he's spent a great deal of time concentrating on the effects of ice melting and knows the dangers quite well. He also seemed to genuinely care about this the most as he sacrifices his summers to spend in areas such as Greenland and Antartica. The YouTube video on the "Rows and Columns" was also persuasive. The author of that video explained we can possibly waste billions of dollars and go into a worldwide debt and possibly prevent something catastrophic, or risk it all and potentially face worldwide destruction.
I experienced the presentation with mixed feelings. It just seemed like the people who gave answers to the questions of the audience were willing to convince people that the global warming issue is not a big deal. Well, in my opinion it is very serious. Some things mentioned sounded like excuses to remain poisoning the earth and environment. "Technology and research is not far enough to know for sure that it is a threat that human caused."
The video at the beginning of the presentation made a point. A man tried to persuade everyone with putting the global warming issue in the Pascal Wager.
If it exists and we do something against it - it will save us.
If it exists and we don't so anything - it will get worse for all of us.
If it doesn't exist and we do something - we waste money, but stay alive.
If it doesn't exist and we do nothing we saved money.
I'm from Germany and we take the Global Warming problem very serious and try to work against it or at least slow it down with programs like recycling and higher taxes on inefficient cars.
I know we are different in culture and how we use energy, but it is not right to close the eyes to don't see the problem that approach us all around the world. Everyone can do something.
Denny Berndt
I attended the "Global Warming Presentation" at the beginning of the year. I found a few this interesting in the presentation. The professor from SDSU was very interesting to listen to. He talked about how he has traveled around and studied ice to see if global warming dates back to a different time as well.
Vianne Watson
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