UC-San Diego Now Requires a Climate Change Course to Graduate
“Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement”
Progressive ideas are so popular that they always have to be made mandatory for some reason.
The College Fix reports:
Climate change class required now for UC San Diego degree
A climate change course is required learning for all incoming freshmen at the University of California San Diego starting this semester.
The “Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement” will help students learn about the “fundamental challenge that we face in the university [or] on this planet in the coming hundred years,” Professor Sarah Gille told The College Fix on a phone interview.
Gille, a climate scientist, served on the faculty senate workgroup with the administration to finalize the requirement.
The 30 percent of the class content “should be focused on understanding and addressing climate change and its impacts,” according to an academic senate memo.
“Students can fulfill the requirement in courses that span the entire curriculum,” Gille told The Fix when asked about possible pushback from students who study in fields unrelated to climate change.
“There are courses in literature that cover the literature related to climate change – climate fiction, for example – and there are courses in policy, there are courses in environmental economics,” Gille said. “Students may feel like this is an unexpected requirement, but it’s not intended to increase their time to degree.”
The requirement “does not increase the number of courses required for graduation” according to a university website.
Gille said “the impact will be different for different students” and that the classes in the various departments will cause students to “confront climate questions in very different ways and that will equip them in different ways for what happens next.”
Qualifying classes this semester include “Gender and Climate Justice,” “Philosophy and the Environment” and “Intro to Environmental Studies,” according to the university.
With regard to the veracity of climate change and its impact on the environment, the professor said that “scientists are intrinsically super skeptical” and that “there is indisputable evidence for the climate change that we see.”
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I am curious whether a student who knows climate change is pure BS and answers exams question truthfully will be doomed because they will be unable to graduate.
California: Land of fruits and nuts.
Ask her which side she would have supported in Bretz’s Flood in the 1930’s. Apparently All of USGS (but one guy who was ordered to stay quiet) was officially against the hypothesis for 40 years. So when they say that all climate scientists are in agreement, point out the last time that they all “agreed” about something, and were wrong.
I’ll bet none of the required courses will point out that there is no connection between AGW and whether it is possible for us to provide all needed power without thermal generation.
We constantly see content claiming wind/solar/water/storage can adequately power our world: but never specific details.
Is AGW a problem? I doubt it, but my opinion doesn’t matter.
The big tech firms for years have funded climate change activists while claiming they were using “100% Clean Power!!”
That of course was a lie; they used the same grid power as everyone else, but purchased dubious “renewable” credits.
Just about all now are in on nuclear: they know their proposed AI data centers require a LOT of 24/7 power. They also know renewables only provide intermittent power.
No matter how much activists claim wind & solar can provide all necessary power, do not believe it. All renewables need 100% backup by firm generators if 24/7 power is needed.
Nuclear is the only technology which can provide 100%
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