I would love to get feed back from the African American community on the rise of DEI.
I ask this because of an experience my father had with one of his most memorable MBA students. The student was an African American gentleman that went on to become a very successful...
...executive in a local hospital and one of the most respected business leaders in the community. My father and him kept in touch as local business leaders stay involved in the business school many times. My father asked this gentleman what he felt about, what at the time...
...we were calling affirmative action, and was shocked by the response. He said that no matter his success and accolades he still felt that other local business leaders didn't think he worked as hard as they did to achieve his success. Even after his rise as an executive...
...and the numerous awards and praise he felt he could never get out from under that umbrella.
Is this a common sentiment felt within the African American community? #DEI
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Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons...
...are mainly personal. COVID made me realize that we were really far from our families in CA and the travel on our elderly parents was taking a toll. The result was that our children were not seeing their grandparents very often. As a Polish immigrant I know what it's like...
...to live far from family and I started to resent myself for choosing my career over my family's time together. Furthermore, over the last decade or so, but especially the last few years, the obsession with universities and grant-funding institutions...
I don't blame young people for being climate alarmists and activists. In fact I would have likely been next to them a decade ago. Young people are passionate about protecting the environment and have been manipulated to firmly believe... nature.com/articles/d4158…
...that atmospheric CO2 is a pollutant. I also don't blame the MSM for catastrophizing every weather event in an attempt to push a climate emergency narrative. They have always operated under the "if it bleeds it leads" philosophy. Nor do I blame governmental organizations...
...whose entire existence is predicated on there being a climate emergency. Self preservation will dictate that those organizations will continue the false narrative of a climate emergency. Those that are truly at fault are the scientific community...
If we are in a climate emergency... It's not in lives lost due to natural disasters or an increase in geophysical, hydrological, meteorological,or climatological disasters. So where specifically is the emergency? It's in the failed predictions. #climate#ClimateEmergency
No increase in global land area burned and no increase in global major hurricane frequency. Where is this emergency I keep hearing about?
No increase in economic damage from droughts. Where is this emergency?
No matter what the magnitude of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has on climate (I would argue its overstated by the IPCC) the warming climate has not at all been bad for most of the planet. Yes sea levels are rising slightly (about 1/10th of the rate...
...that they rose after the last glacial) and obviously temperatures have risen (much more in urban areas due to the Urban Heat Island Effect) but people are living longer than ever. Less folks are at risk of famine or malnutrition than ever before. There has been...
...no increase in extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, or hurricanes. The planet is greening and with that crop yields are at record highs. Vast amount of land that was unsuitable for agriculture or livestock due to cold temps is becoming available...
The climate alarmists playbook simplified. 1) Lie about today's temperature being higher than anytime in recent history.
2) Lie about the changes in temperature being greeter than anything in recent history. Note: the Younger Dryas had temperature changes of 15°C in a century, we have seen 1°C in a century and a half.
3) Pretend that there is a consensus about anthropogenic CO2 emissions effect on temperature. There is not.