{"id":4084,"date":"2015-11-12T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:50","slug":"student-groups-plan-public-forum-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/12\/student-groups-plan-public-forum-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Groups Plan Public Forum on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px.png\" alt=\"3d-Earth-Globe-300px\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4085\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/3d-Earth-Globe-300px.png 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Beta Beta Beta Biology Honors Society and the Politics Club at Missouri Western State University are co-sponsoring a public forum on climate change in their Science and Society series. The forum will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the East Hills Library, 502 N. Woodbine. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will consist of three 20-minute lectures by Missouri Western faculty, followed by a question-and-answer session. Presenters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Csengele Barta, assistant professor of biology, will define climate change and discuss human impacts on our planet<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Pilgram, adjunct faculty in the Department of Chemistry, will delve into the climatic history of our planet and argue against human impact<\/li>\n<li>Edwin Taylor, assistant professor of political science, will talk about what the United States and European nations are doing to combat climate change and what more needs to be done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beta Beta Beta Biology Honors Society and the Politics Club at Missouri Western State University are co-sponsoring a public forum on climate change in their Science and Society series. The forum will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the East Hills Library, 502 N. Woodbine. It is free and open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,74,29],"tags":[158,283,284,289,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}