It seems that Dr. Koonin has already spoken at Purdue on June 15, 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5gEwZHKI8), and previously in 2017. Perhaps it would be a better idea to have a leading climate scientist besides Dr. Koonin provide information on the global consensus viewpoints and how we are running out of time to try to prevent catastrophic climate perturbations without serious efforts to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dennis C. Flanagan, Research Agricultural Engineer USDA-Agricultural Research Service National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory 275 S. Russell Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2077 USA Phone: (765) 494-7748 FAX: (765) 494-5948 Emails: flanagan@purdue.edu Dennis.Flanagan@usda.gov -------------------------------------------------------- On 10/18/2021 1:12 PM, Rapp, Randy R wrote:
Respectfully concur with Professor Heber, in the spirit of open discourse in the marketplace of ideas at a leading Land Grant university. Dr. Koonin certainly seems to have credibility with many informed people. If we are a confident, dutiful faculty standing for academic freedom in the American tradition, then we should let Dr. Koonin speak.
Thank you.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Randy R. Rapp, D.Mgt, PE, CCP
Purdue Polytechnic School of Construction Mgmt. Tech.
(765) 494-8420
*From:* Ese-faculty-list <ese-faculty-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu> *On Behalf Of *Heber, Albert *Sent:* Monday, October 18, 2021 11:29 AM *To:* Ma, Zhao <zhaoma@purdue.edu>; ese-faculty-list@ecn.purdue.edu *Subject:* Re: ESE-faculty-list Open Letter: Concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture from C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA
Dr. Ma,
I am opposed to this attempt to cancel Dr. Koonin’s “Conversation about Climate and Energy”. He recently published a book entitled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters <https://benbellabooks.com/shop/unsettled/>”. He has impeccable credentials and should be given the opportunity to speak on campus.
Respectfully,
Albert J. Heber, Ph.D., PE
Professor Emeritus
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
205 S. University St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-412-4201
Cell: 765-412-4201
Email: heber@purdue.edu <mailto:heber@purdue.edu>
*From:* Ese-faculty-list <ese-faculty-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu <mailto:ese-faculty-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu>> *On Behalf Of *Ma, Zhao *Sent:* Friday, October 15, 2021 2:45 PM *To:* ese-faculty-list@ecn.purdue.edu <mailto:ese-faculty-list@ecn.purdue.edu> *Subject:* ESE-faculty-list Open Letter: Concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture from C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA
Dear members of the Purdue community,
We are members of the Purdue University Center for the Environment (C4E) Building Sustainable Communities (BSC) Signature Research Area (SRA). We are writing to share with you an Open Letter written by members of our SRA to express our concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture on October 19, 2021.
We recognize that this Open Letter may not completely reflect the feelings and thoughts of each of us; at the same time, we feel it is important to have a response to the upcoming Presidential Lecture. More specifically, if you are also concerned about this upcoming Presidential Lecture, we want to let you know that you are not alone, and we understand and share your concerns. If you are concerned about climate change but have not had the opportunity to follow climate science on campus and more broadly, we want to let you know that the upcoming Presidential Lecture speaker does not represent the current state of knowledge in climate science, and many of the speaker’s claims made in the past were misleading and harmful.
We invite you to read and sign our Open Letter to demonstrate your concerns about this upcoming Presidential Lecture and to support rigorous, evidence-based climate science on campus and more broadly.
You can read our Open Letter here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRmiDZLiMEHXRUeNHAlcZ2e5mmBOsS5edBFSAOlAxk7_-AxVaSqY1-xU8m_PesiXBW2FajQ4bFBjATu/pub>.
You can sign our Open Letter here <https://forms.gle/FfxuFftXuabKF1xM7>.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Members of the C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA
Zhao Ma, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Professor | University Faculty Scholar
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Purdue University
195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2033, USA
+1-765-494-1790; zhaoma@purdue.edu <mailto:zhaoma@purdue.edu>
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