Ad’k youth to hold conference on climate change
TUPPER LAKE - Young people from 24 high schools and colleges across the Adirondacks will gather at The Wild Center on Nov. 9 and 10 for the first Adirondack Youth Climate Summit.
The conference is an opportunity for youth to talk about climate change and its effect on the Park. The summit was the brainchild of Zachary Berger, a former Lake Placid High School student who was inspired by a conference held at The Wild Center in 2008. He got the ball rolling for students, educators and Wild Center staff to come together and organize this event.
Each school will send a team that will include students, educators, administrators and facilities staff, with more than 150 people expected to attend, to develop their own, doable plan to decrease energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
"This team approach acknowledges how realistic change and solutions can only come from partnerships and teamwork," museum Director of Programs Jen Kretser said in a prepared statement. "We know that progress can't be made by students alone or ideas coming top-down from administrators. Success will depend on changing how we approach energy use and a new way of thinking from everyone."
Participating schools include Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake and Lake Placid high schools as well as North Country Community College and Paul Smith's College.
Kretser said in the statement that she was amazed at the level of interest in climate change she found in Adirondack students.
"Young people are interested in climate change, but don't know how to get involved," Celeste Bickford, a senior at Saranac Lake High School, said in the press release. "This is a way they can. ... This is also a great opportunity for the Adirondacks to be a model for other similar places throughout the country. They can learn from what we do."
The plenary sessions of the summit will stream live at www.wildcenter.org/summit. Schedule information is available at www.adkcap.org/?q=studentsummit.
Followup Adirondack Youth Climate Summits are planned for 2010 and 2011 to monitor the success of each climate action plan and to allow more Adirondack schools to participate.
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dalemi21
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10-29-09 8:14 PM
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Actually it might not be a bad thing to "educate" the kids. That way they will understand exactly why they will never be able to be out of debt when they are older!
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AdirondackCitizen
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10-29-09 12:47 PM
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When will the Wild Center and other Adirondack organizations finally get it? ACID RAIN is killing our ecosystems! Instead of enlightening our youth on the Adirondacks most pressing environmental problem, kids are being indoctrinated with an environmental myth. Climate change theory is based on consensus, not science and has been discredited at the highest levels of scientific study. I guess these kids won't learn that until Cap & Trade has destroyed our economy for no other reason than to generate revenue for the government.
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Spooner
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10-29-09 8:34 AM
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I'll admit to being "on the fence" when it comes to climate change. I am trying to diminish my footprint just the same, walking more, turning off the lights etc. However, what has me more concerned is the blatant destruction of the water supply, at least in the Adirondacks. Those that claim to do all the can to protect the Adirondacks (APA & Cronies) really need to get on board and stop the use of road salt or other chemical to fight snow and ice. Salt CANNOT be completely removed and DOES poison our water supply.
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contrary1
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10-29-09 7:53 AM
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Is this a Tri-Lakes pro-eco-tourism conference, or an actual discussion of the ramifications of climate change? Sure, it's easy to brainwash kids into thinking that the only way to save the environment is to set aside great tracts of land for great camps, but will they discuss the exceptional nature of these fortunate ones, and the State's inability to stop them from using their wealth as a destructive weapon? A true Adirondack Educational experience would welcome the opinions of people who aren't affiliated with the promotion of eco-tourism, and learn from places that haven't been destroyed by second home condos for the idle rich. All over the world, valuable environmental treasures are being trampled to dust by enviro-lemmings in the name of eco-tourism. Exploiting the Adirondacks, is different than saving the Adirondacks. Our youth need to understand the difference.
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designer5
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10-28-09 10:15 PM
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reportedly made the agreement his top priority, stating that “a deal must include an equitable global governance structure” (read: world government) in an opinion piece published by the New York Times. Oh, what a surprise. The UN wants billions up front (they've been SOOOOOOO responsible and honest with their previous programs), will probably request that our senate ratify a blank treaty (they'll fill in the blanks later-we can trust them, of course) AND their final goal is a one world government. What a surprise!!!!!!!!!!!
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designer5
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10-28-09 10:12 PM
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United Nations global warming officials said this week that a final climate change treaty will be “impossible” to reach at the December summit in Copenhagen due to disagreements on financing and emissions targets, but they are not giving up. According to news reports, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told a conference call that as long as a framework was established, the details could be filled in next year. Whether the U.S. Senate will be expected to ratify any treaties before “the details” are worked out remains unclear. "Copenhagen can and must agree on the political essentials that make a long-term response to climate change clear and realistic," de Boer said. He told reporters that “time is running out”and that rich countries should“immediately” hand over a minimum of $10 billion to help poorer nations “adapt to climate change.”
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 10:02 PM
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Now all we have to do is somehow get you out of Sunmount. Maybe if Doug Hoffman gets elected, he could use some of his political influence to get you released.
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 10:00 PM
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We need to take you national. Do you have a twitter account. Even on Facebook, I could start a "Friends of Outlaw" group. It would be a start. Maybe you should ramp it up a bit (Sorry ADE) and start branching out to the forums at the Press Republican or the Watertown Daily Times. Seriously, you should broaden your audience. More people would benefit from your insight, your education, your carefully crafted diction. We're talking a paradigm shift in world view here. I mean it. The world needs to know about this "leave changing" theory of yours. Won't all those Phd's be humbled in your presence when they finally see the brilliance of your thesis. And when they read your well researched dissertation on the subject, with all that carefully crafted research, they'll be stunned. I know the century is young, but you may have it in the bag as the most influential thinker of the 21st century.
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 9:49 PM
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Seriously, your statement "'Did anyone tell them that the leaves fall off the trees every year at this time? That's about the extent of "climate change"'" should be the title of a definitive book on the subject. I'm sure publishers would be scrambling to give you a large sum of coin. You could be on the talk show circuit, Oprah in the morning Letterman at night. Book signings at Barnes and Noble in Manhattan with lines out the door. Good Morning America. Times Man of the Year. Headlines in the Washington Post: "Brilliant Mind Discovered on ADE Discussion Forum!" You could single handedly boost the tourist economy in Tupper as throngs of people would converge just to be near you. Maybe a Nobel Prize would be in order...for the discovery that "Climate Change is really only the leaves falling off trees at this time." We could save so much time if those scientists would just stop all their data collection and just listen to you.
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 9:09 PM
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Wait? I've got it! Maybe you should go to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen and speak on the world stage? At the very least, our own government should let you shape environmental policy. I can help. We can start by sending posting your curriculum vitae and create a little buzz on the web. People would marvel at your academic background, your publications, the cutting edge scientific research, your tireless hours in the field (wot, nose to the grindstone and all that), your great novel, the pure imaginative depth of your intellect... Pretty soon people will discover that hiding behind that coy little "Outlaw" handle is one of the world's great minds, a mind that finds solutions where others are stifled. We only have to get the word out. How can we help?
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 8:58 PM
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Thanks again Outlaw for your intelligent and persuasive discourse. Your comments grace these forums with erudition and creative brilliance. We should all pay homage to your synapses and overlook scientific research. I forgot myself for a while and sided with otherwise irrefutable evidence. Sorry. I'll try in the future to base my world view on a guy who selects "outlaw" as a screen name. If we could only find away to spread your brilliance beyond this forum. Perhaps some sort of book deal? Or a documentary film? Maybe take some your environmental views public on "Meet the Press." Maybe an honorary degree would be in order? A commencement speech at Princeton? Maybe the New York Times would let you write a piece on the Op-Ed page?
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Outlaw63446
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10-28-09 7:10 PM
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Happydik - You really did drink the koolaid, didn't you? You must have had your own 55 gallon drum of it.
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Outlaw63446
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10-28-09 7:08 PM
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Did anyone tell them that the leaves fall off the trees every year at this time? That's about the extent of "climate change".
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 6:07 PM
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Education (obviously) is a needed thing in this area. The ability to adapt opinion to new information is a cjaracteristic of intelligence. The area needs to educate youth and attract other educated people in order to advance the economy in this area. The research concludes that we are undereducated, something that clearly inhibits businesses from ever relocating here. This forum stands as robust argument for the need for brain gain, either through our youth, or through attracting educated people to the area. Educating young students about environmental science is not exactly a negative thing. It's a fascinating and overt demonstration of ignorance to view this as brainwashing and lies.
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FishCric
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10-28-09 5:21 PM
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the youth need to be educated so they can make objective decisions about these things when they grow up. We have made a mess of things for sure but turning kids into activists before they have a real understand of the economic and social ramifications is reminisent of the hitler youth and all the good they were going to do. solar radiation is somthing that will NEVER be controllable and has more effect on the weather(climate) change then anything man has done in 400 years. Be responsible with energy but remember the brain drain on state is only going to continue as long as we apear to be a bunch of libral misinformed government drones. after you live long enough you will begin to see 20-30 year patterns in the weather and the al gore's of the world are the true enemy's...
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dalemi21
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10-28-09 5:10 PM
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Yep, brainwashing them early! Fill their little minds with all the liberal LIES!
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Happyadk
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10-28-09 3:07 PM
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Nice to see youth taking a role.
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