Sep 08 2009
A New (School) Year, A Good Time to Get Active and Volunteer
Happy New Year! Yes, I know the date. However, we celebrate two new years in the U.S. -– the famous one with parties and tax issues and the start of the new school year. I never cease to be amazed at how much of our lives revolves around the start of a new school year. You do not even have to have schoolkids at home to be affected.
With that thought in mind, let me encourage you to look at ASCE as you begin this new year. I am certain that many of you have had good intentions about getting involved in your Section or Branch. Now is a good time. Your colleagues will be glad to see you. Together you can take a position about the importance of infrastructure funding during a recession. You might even write and submit a paper on that great project that you recently completed.
While you are at it, you could slip by your local engineering school or alma mater and encourage the students in ASCE. Introduce the ASCE and EWB students to each other and inform them of our partnership. Stop by the nearest school to your home and volunteer to introduce engineering to the students regardless of their age. ASCE has age-appropriate material to help you.
We have a lot of work to do to promote this great profession of civil engineering. Starting a new school year is the perfect time for you to join us.
[To find a local ASCE Section or Branch, start here.
To learn about volunteering to introduce kids to the world of civil engineering, start here. ]
I hope that the material we have does not contain false information on man-made global warming. AL Gore’s book and movie have been proven in court in the UK to be 90 % lies. We should not be doing the same think by promoting the unscientific information that the Greenhouse gas effect exists.
We should be letting student know that the ghg effect was disproved in 1909 by an American physicist R.W. Wood a renowned professor at John Hopkins University from 1901- 1955 and that he was a friend of both Albert Einstein and Max Plank.
Additional information: Based on conversations with many young people ,7 to 12 years old they know from studying NASA information on temperatures and ice cover of the north and south poles and other web-sites that Man-made global warming does not exist. If a civil engineer goes in to a school promote “greenhouse gas effect” and man-made global warming they better have proof -not the reference to IPCC report because many of these young people have done their research and know there are major errors in the IPCC report and that fewer than 60 of the original “scientists ” are still signatory to the UN documents.
It will be very Embarrassing to the civil engineer to find out that the students know more about the subject than the Professional Engineer. It will not be very beneficial to promote engineering when they are pushing a Fairy-tale.
Check out the web-site “Ponder the Maunder” that was done by a 16 year old. She was not burdened by”Public Policy” and analysed the available information and came to the conclusion that “man- made global warming “does not exist.