This could be one of the greatest climate-related LEGO robotics competitions of all time

News Release | University News Service | UMN

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 10/14/2008 ) -- More than 250 students, ages 9 to 14 from across Minnesota, will participate in hands-on sessions at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, to learn more about global climate issues and begin preparing for "Climate Connections," the 2008 Minnesota FIRST LEGO League robotics competition.
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The university event also will include a keynote address given by renowned climate researcher Mark Seeley, a professor in the university's department of soil, water and climate, from 8:45-9:15 a.m. in Room 15, Food Science and Nutrition, 1334 Eckles Ave., St. Paul and again from 9:55-10:30 a.m. in Mayo Memorial Auditorium, 425 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis.

[2006] Film: An Inconvenient Truth

U of M Climatologist Mark Seeley talked after the preview screening of An Inconvenient Truth at Landmark’s Edina 4 Theatre. His reaction to the film, “Uff da,” he replied. Quite concerned about global warming’s effects, he elaborated, “Eight of the last nine winters have been in the top 25% of warmest weathers.” He suggested just this year that the climate models in our first three months changed in whole numbers. Our memorial weekend also had disturbingly inflated dew point values. As Gore pointed out that the climate is getting wetter, Minnesota also shows numbers on the rise with wetness since our last dry spell, which was the summer of 1988.
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Seeley: “Labeled contrarians have been personally attacking this idea but the vast majority of people are accepting global warming.”