A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The week will examine the politics and ethics of anthropogenic climate change, as well as some of the science behind it. Students will be given the opportunity to listen to politicians, scientists and environmental campaigners from both the consensus and sceptic points of view.
The Freedom Society said: "Our aim is not to present an attack on Climate Change 'consensus', but it is firstly to question the nature of Government's role in funding and acting upon the perceived threat of climate change, and secondly to investigate what is essentially the proscription of those in the scientific community who voice concern with the State's position."
The Freedom Society takes the view that they are not sure whether or not climate change is man-made, but wish to be able to understand the argument and ensure that open and free discussion can take place.
The timetable for the week is subject to change, but is currently as follows:
For more information, click here. For a blog on Climate Week by Sam Westrop, Chair of the University of York Freedom Society, click here.
I think the title 'Climate Week' is rather misleading, 'Climate Change Denial Week' would have been more appropriate.
I'm on the committee, and it's nothing to do with climate change denial. It's about the politics and ethics of climate science. That's why the speakers will be half consensus and half sceptic. The most important thing in science is the ability for free discussion. That how science enjoys progress, through argument. Sceintists actively try to disprove their own theories. If you just dismiss a group of people out of hand, it's hardly an ethical platform to then revolutionise the Western World's entire way of living. Given the life-changing decisions that might be made by future governments, surely it's important to understand the science, and the ethical dilemmas involved.
Concerning the 'ability for free discussion', as Hubert Humphrey put it, the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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