Thank you Treasury for funding Al Gore | Student Life

Finally, this is a steal. The College Democrats (again, I am one, so I know) worked their butts off to get alternate sources of funding and seriously lower the cost. In the end, the cost to the students, because of the alternate funding, is substantially lower than it would normally be to bring Al Gore to campus.

That is why Treasury did the right thing by approving the funds for his appearance. Because regardless of whether or not you think “An Inconvenient Truth” was boring—or that Al Gore is a liberal demagogue—he is a world-renowned environmentalist, he is cheaper than normal and he is the biggest name to come to campus since the 2008 debates.

‘Climate Change Reality Project’ Heading to Kotzebue | alaskapublic.org

Larry Schweiger, President of the National Wildlife Federation will give the talk in Kotzebue at 7pm Alaska time. He says he’ll focus on the startling number of extreme weather events that have struck the U.S. in the last year.

Schweiger knows there are a lot of climate change skeptics in the U.S. And he acknowledges it may be impossible to convert a small segment of population that adamantly believes human caused climate change does not exist. But he thinks events like the Climate Reality Project can have a big impact on average Americans.