Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, attracted a sizeable crowd for his global warming discussion at Colgate University last week. Lindzen's visit to campus was sponsored by Colgate's Center for Ethics and World Societies.

By disproving scientific statements regarding the negative impacts of climate change, he attempted to show that global warming poses no imminent threat.

Colgate University was fortunate enough to host the internationally acclaimed author and Australian Man of the Year, Tim Flannery.

After reading Flannery's The Weather Makers as part of my first-year reading requirement, I was grateful for the opportunity to meet with him to discuss the currently escalating issue of global warming, which he writes about in his book.