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 City of York Council will be granted £250,000, enabling the city to fight the difficult battle against climate change.
This announcement comes only weeks after YUSU was given an award for environmental best-practice and John Grogan, MP for campus, signed a pledge by People and Planet and Friends of the Earth.
Robyn Heather, Chair of People and Planet York, told the Yorker that she feels the available funds are "definitely a step in the right direction, and hopefully the university should follow suit after changes start to happen in the city itself."
Students have made it clear that the environment is one of their main priorities, with voting in the last UGM demonstrating the perceived importance of ‘an environmentally sustainable Heslington East’.
Many have shown their dedication to fighting global warming through involvement in college recycling, as well as schemes aiming to conserve water and electricity.
With more funds available, the local council will be able to make schools and other council-owned properties more environmentally friendly.
Lighting and public transport in the city will be targeted as well as improving the waste disposal and management schemes presently in place.
Heather also said that "planting flowers and trees in York parks wouldn't be enough, replacing all the bins in the city with multi-compartment recycling bins would perhaps be a better use of the money for example."
If targets are met, then a reduction of 25 per cent will be seen in carbon emissions throughout York over the next five years; failure to do so could put the council at risk of fines.
What exactly is this doing to help combat the religious cult that is global warming? Get over yourselves thinking you can make any difference.
Pretending to give a shit about the environment is the new black. Have you not noticed how every advert on TV, every politician's set of policies, every business these days is trying to leverage the environmental angle as much as possible? Appearing to be the good guy leads to money, votes and power.
I'm not saying everyone's like this, there's a lot of people out there including many friends who do truly care. I guess the point I was making is that progress is being made, although a lot of it is poorly motivated and a lot of it is surrounded by annoying, overzealous idiots quoting misleading statistics. But it doesn't mean it's all wrong or doesn't make a difference ultimately.
I am intrigued as to see what exactly they will be doing..
As to global warming being a religious cult -- the fact that climate change is happening is backed up with so much scientific evidence (and don't give me the examples of Lomborg, the UK Centre for Policy Studies or American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), they are not known for their unbiased statements, and no, they are not backed by scientific research).
It seems merely wishful thinking to dismiss the attempt to remediate climate change as a cult. Of course, feel free not to join.
Though I agree that there is perhaps too much focus on "climate change" and less focus on increasing biodiversity (stopping a decrease, basically) and water shortages, which are actually much more tangible and solvable than the big looming climate change 'that you can't do anything about' and therefore don't.
/emw
EMW: I have steered clear of this debate thus far but feel a burning urge to come-back to what you have said.
I would agree with you when you say that climate-change is happening. No one or no scientists deny this. The debate however is still to be had regarding the causes of this. If you want to begin comparing scientific research then lets go ahead because I think you will find that human contribution to 'global warming' is minimum at most and some would argue non existent.
The world has a scientifically proven 'cycle' of warm-cold periods over 1000's of years. Ice ages followed by periods of warmth and so on and so forth, so don't think for once that this is a new phenomena. It is not. At the moment, we are in a 'warming' period of this cycle however back in the late 1970's the BBC commissioned a (biased as usuall) programme putting forward alleged 'scientific evidence' that the world was becoming 'colder' not 'warmer' as a result of human emissions which incidentally make up 1.5% of all emissions into the atmosphere.
What I am saying is that science changes and develops. I think it is wrong to take what we hear as 'red' now, becuase look what heppened 30 years ago...we thought the world was cooling.
My issue with this article is that it is yet another assunmption that we can do anything. Frankly any little we do do in the way of recycling, preserving water and the alike is merely to appease our consciences of the fact that we actually do nothing about it- rather like silly token gestures such as 'light a candle for Tibet'. What the f**k good is that going to do?! The candles were probably made in China anyway.
What global-warming is, is a cause that people of a certain political persuasion can unite behind. It is fashionable; it sounds caring, loving and makes politicians look good to the public. The reality is however, is that we can do nothing about it. Money is far better spent accepting that it is a natural cycle and adapting to living in times where droughts will be more frequent and weather systems, sporadic. It is a nice fashionable cause, but I'm afraid that for all you world-beaters out there, you can't do anything about it. Remember what Chesterton said: "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
How ept a note to finish on...
Dan Taylor
I just read an article (link) that you might be interested in, comparing the different sources of stats on global warming, the bias applied by some and a brief comparison with historical fears of climate change.
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