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Stop global warming tour stops at MTSU | Stop Global Warming, Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Global Warming

Sheryl Crow and Laurie David discuss global warming awareness.
There is power to inspire change in rock 'n roll music and in the minds of college students.

Knowing these things to be true, rocker Sheryl Crow and environmentalist Laurie David embarked on a two-week college tour to spread awareness of global warming.

MTSU was the seventh stop for the biodiesel fueled Stop Global Warming tour bus on the 11-university tour.

MTSU President Sidney McPhee expected it is former Vice President Al Gore's connection to the university that brought the tour to MTSU. Gore, a former MTSU guest lecturer, developed the Power Point presentation used in the Academy Award-winning global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" at MTSU, he said.

Crow's popular tunes likely attracted most of the 2,000 plus MTSU students, faculty and staff to the free Stop Global Warming event at Murphy Center Tuesday night.

But the activists hoped to capture the attention of students and inspire them to make changes in their own life and demand changes nationally to put an end to global warming.

"We are both terrified about what is happening to this planet," David said of why she and Crow embarked on the college tour. "The globe is warming, and it is humans that are causing it."

Thousands of scientists across the world have said global warming is real and the planet is warming faster than anyone first thought, she said.

Global warming is caused by carbon dioxide in the air. It not only causes warmer weather but more extreme weather.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are causing heat waves in the Midwest, severe droughts in the Southwest, shortened ski seasons in the Northeast and more violent hurricanes on the east and Gulf coasts, David and Crow said.

"Hurricane Katrina is just a taste of what is to come if we don't stop global warming," David said during the campus presentation.

Doing such small things as replacing a regular light bulb with a longer-lasting, less-energy-consuming compact fluorescent bulb, keeping vehicles tuned up, using less hot water and turning off all electronic devices can positively impact the planet.

A household that replaces two bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, according to information from the Stop Global Warming campaign. If every household in the U.S. did the same, it would save a trillion pounds of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

"It is not about us doing everything," Crow said. "It is about everybody doing something."

MTSU junior Reggie Miller said he appreciated Crow and David making MTSU a tour stop.

"I think it is great," he said. "A lot of people who wouldn't be interested in the issue are here because it is free."

Miller, who is co-chair of MTSU's Students for Environmental Action, hopes the concert inspires students to make changes in their lives and help in the campaign to make changes at the university.

Last year, MTSU students overwhelming passed a referendum to add $8 to the fees students pay per semester to purchase power generated through renewable resources. Some 11 percent of the university's energy is produced by green energy.

David and Crow encourage everyone to join the Stop Global Warming Virtual March by visiting www.stopglobalwarming.org. Founded by David, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), the online database is serving as the 21st Century's version of marching on the U.S. capital to get the attention of political leaders.

Erin Edgemon can be reached at 869-0812 and at eedgemon@murfreesboropost.com.

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www.stopglobalwarming.org
 
 
 
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Member Opinions:
By: JC on 4/18/07
Oh brother!

By: Trvlace on 4/18/07
More liberal BS. Was Al Gore there too? He invented Global Warming and the internet, just ask him.

By: Fishmonkey on 4/18/07
The only global warming that exists is coming from the hot air of global warming activists. All the time, effort and money being spent on this non-issue is the real crisis.
Must go now. I need to fill up my SUV so I can get to the store to buy some flourescent light bulbs.

By: sja66 on 4/18/07
Global warming is a bunch of malarkey!

By: Jeff8462 on 4/18/07
Global Warning tour- they fly in jets, have tour buses, etc.. until they can perform in concert using solar power, they need to shut their global pie hole!

By: snook on 4/19/07
Love the comments.
I was beginning to think I was a lone voice crying in the wilderness.
Two things really tick me off about this global warming hoopla:
1. Who do these people think they are that they have the power to change the weather? This is the ultimate in arrogance.
2. They want to destroy our freedoms in the name of saving the planet while they live in huge mansions and drive gant vehicles but want us "little" people to drive cracker boxes and live a primitive lifestyle.

By: gloria2deo on 4/19/07
Amen to the above comments. And those compact flourescent bulbs? They have mercury in them, and we know that's really environmentally friendly.
I'm old enough to remember the ecology movement of the 60's and 70's, and the big fright campaign was the threat of a new ice age. And don't get me started on Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring. Because of this book, DDT spraying was stopped in third world countries, causing the death of millions to malaria. This was done to save the bald eagles, whose eggs were supposedly becoming fragile due to the pesticide use. This was later disproven, yet DDT spraying has not been reinstated, and the malaria deaths are continuing.
Humans are not the major cause of global warming. We therefore do not have the power to stop it. Yes, we are supposed to be good stewards of the planet God gave us. But one of my biggest gripes with the environmentalists is that they target their junk science and scare tactics to children, who have no power or resources to do anything about it. They see Al Gore and his ilk on Channel One,for example, and there is no balancing viewpoint.
The high priests of the environmental movement with their "carbon offset credits" remind me of the indulgences sold during the Middle Ages to buy dead relatives of the gullible out of purgatory. It's just one more example of their hypocrisy. Unfortunately, they can't be ignored, as we can see from the recent Supreme Court ruling stating that carbon dioxide emissions are now to be regulated. Gradually are freedoms are to be eroded, based on faulty science which will later be disproven, but only after it is too late. Unless we continue to speak out!

By: Carl on 4/19/07
You're all right! We should do nothing.

By: etech30 on 4/19/07
Gloria-I here ya on the Channel One information. I'm married to a geologist so I'm fortunate that he can balance what my daughter hears at school.

Snook-you aren't a lone voice, unless you are speaking of mainstream media. Then, unless you worship (a la Leonardo Di Caprio)Al Gore, then you are a right-wing, anti Global Warming nazi.

But if it's on the news, then it must be true. We need to tell the city and the county that the more they approve subdivisions, malls, etc., then they are contributing to 'global warming' with all the construction equipment tearing up the countryside!


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