Assessment of Climate Change: A Challenge for the University

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Assessment of Climate Change: A Challenge for the University” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: ASSESS subscribers (a) Larry King at http://bit.ly/195skV6 & http://bit.ly/11aNwHy, and (b) Mike Fulford at http://bit.ly/17IgiTZ questioned the relevancy to assessment in higher education of my posts “Senator Sheldon Whitehouse - Time to Wake Up: GOP Opposition to Climate Science” at http://yhoo.it/100EVIY and “Why Democrats in Congress Fail To Support Climate Change Legislation #3” at http://yhoo.it/100EVIY.

Irrelevant to assessment in higher education? King and Fulford may have missed my post “Would a Carbon Tax Save Life on Planet Earth?” at http://yhoo.it/16ECfUn. If there’s no life on Planet Earth then there's neither Higher Education nor Assessment on Planet Earth.

Karl Pister, Emeritus Chancellor of UC - Santa Cruz, wrote at http://bit.ly/11ymbuk: “. . . we need to encourage innovative ways of looking at problems, moving away from the increasing specialization of academia to develop new interdisciplinary fields that can address complex real-world problems from new perspectives.”

Surely the assessment of the alleged threat to life on Planet Earth by anthropogenic global warming is A Challenge To The University rather than the Irrelevancy seen by King and Fulford.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES [URL's shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 12 June 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. “Assessment of Climate Change: A Challenge for the University,” online on the OPEN! Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/11KwHD9. Post of 13 Jun 2013 10:47:32-0700to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being distributed to various discussion lists.