Wichita Panel on Climate Change

A rabbi, a General, a scientist, and a farmer walk into a church...and educate about climtate change.

Here are videos from the Panel Discussion: Climate Change and Its Local, Regional and International Implications" held on October 13th 2013 at College Hill United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas. The event was sponsored by Southwind Group of Kansas Sierra Club and Kansas Interfaith Power & Light and moderated by Judy Burgess of the Southwind Group of the Kansas Sierra Club.

At once one of the most talked-about, yet misunderstood, issues in American life, climate change is already having some signifi-cant impacts—here in Kansas, regionally, and around the world. This panel discussion is intended to bring good, fact-based infor-mation about how climate change is affecting us now, and how it will continue to affect our lives and our society in the future. Speakers on the panel hold expertise in their subject areas and are well-qualified to address questions of “What are the facts?”, “What can we do about it?” and “Where do we go from here?”

Rabbi Moti Rieber, Director of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, on the faith and moral implications of climate change.


Brig. Gen. (ret'd) W. Christopher King, of Staff and General College at Ft. Leavenworth, on the national security implications of global climate change


 Dr. Johannes Feddema, Chair of the Geography Department at the University of Kansas, on the science of climate change.

Donn Teske, Executive Director of Kansas Farmers Union, on the implications for Kansas agriculture and rural life.

The Polluters: my first Amazon review

The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment (Hardcover) Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter have written a fascinating and eye-opening history of the companies, institutions, and policies that have created our chemically altered environment over the last century.

If Earth Day or the Love Canal tragedy were the events that brought the environmental crisis into your consciousness, then you owe it to yourself to read The Polluters. Even more so, if it was Global Warming or the BP oil spill.

Killer smog in LA and mass zinc poisoning in Denora, Pennsylvania are two dramatic events, just after WWII, covered by Ross and Amter. But there is also the story of DDT and leaded gasoline. The coverups by companies and the obfuscations of industry-influenced scientific groups are constants in the story.

Government has rarely been an effective regulator. The chemical industry in pursuing its own pecuniary interests has promoted and exploited an ideology of market fundamentalism, which has helped to negate and undermine efforts at regulation.


The Polluters is free of academic jargon and is written in a lively style

Wanted David and Charles Koch, Climate Criminals

A humorous look at the Koch's. I'd like to see a more serious report. Let me know if there is one around that you are aware of.


Wanted: David and Charles Koch, Climate Criminals from Greenpeace USA on Vimeo.

Climate Change--those hacked e-mails

The right-wing nuts think they've discovered a vast conspiracy, but here's a video that puts things in perspective.



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