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The report calls on the administration to support plans to make Brown carbon-neutral and warns that if they fail to do so, assuming temperatures continue to increase at their current rate, we will definitely all be dead by 2009.
EmPOWER, the student group advocating the University's carbon-neutrality, released a report last week urging the Brown community to "Look around! You will see alarmingly rapid temperature rises, flowers where just a few weeks ago were bare branches, and even augmented daylight hours. Our world is changing in front of our very eyes. Help us stop it!"
EmPOWER President Anna Jenkins '09 said the club is very worried by recent statistics. "We thought we were out of the woods toward the end of 2007, when it got colder for a while," she said. "But it seems that was just a brief respite to the unerring process of global warming. It's really not a debatable issue anymore-this campus is literally getting hotter every day."
Many students are heeding the club's warning. "I used to think global warming was just a myth, like Bigfoot or the moon landing. But now it seems like it's for real," said Jimmy Thomas '10. "The other day, I went outside in my sweater and peacoat like I always do, and I actually started sweating. Now that's what I call an Inconvenient Truth."
Despite the recent dramatic changes to the weather on fair College Hill, however, other students remain unconcerned with the threat of global warming. Some even seem to be enjoying the changes, playing Frisbee or lying out on the Main Green to soak up the sun.
"I don't know how anyone logical could be denying global warming after the last few weeks," said Jenkins. "It amazes me how some people are just blind to what's right in front of them."
