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UT Prof Awarded Conservation Honor 

Lee Nichols  Fri Nov 16, 9:59am , 2007
Tags: Environment, Energy


Say cheese!
Photo from Camille Parmesan's website
The National Wildlife Federation has honored University of Texas professor Camille Parmesan with its National Conservation Achievement Award “for exemplary leadership in protecting the environment and natural resources.” Parmesan specializes in researching how climate change is causing many species to begin mating earlier or shift their habitat range – the latter of which could render pointless attempts to create wildlife preserves and can result in the extinction of species already living at high elevations, since they can’t move any higher. The Austin Chronicle profiled Parmesan in “We’ve Got Climate Change," March 7, 2003.

 

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Hypocrite m1ek Nov 16, 2007 - 02:36 pm
Check TravisCAD: Parmesan's mailing address is out off of 360 on a canyon in the Westlake area - where there's no bus service; and you can't walk anywhere. She's disproportionately contributing to the climate change she is correctly alarming us about.

Nice guest Nov 16, 2007 - 02:55 pm
Nice catch, m1ek.

Gimme a break Lee Nichols Nov 16, 2007 - 06:11 pm
Jeez, m1ek, you are so f***ing sanctimonious and quick to tar anyone who isn't as holy as you. Maybe she drives a hybrid? Maybe she lives out there because it's near some habitats she likes to study?

Look in my driveway, and you'll find a gas-guzzling Ford Explorer. So I'm a hypocritical pseudo environmentalist, right? Well, except that: I bought it when I was younger, before I knew about the SUV gas mileage exceptions; I work from home; even when I worked at the Chronicle office, 3 or 4 days a week, sometimes 5, I rode my bicycle or took the bus to work; and whenever I go downtown (which is a lot, including this week of covering the RG4N trial) I take the bus about 90% of the time.

I've gotten so sick of you and others tarring my neighbors over near Northcross as rich people who don't want poor people dirtying up our neighborhood. We may not be poor, but there are no mansions over here, either.

Perhaps I should assume that because you live in Hyde Park that you are a wealthy liberal lawyer?

The only thing you know about Camille Parmesan is that you found her address, and then you wrote your little mini-biography around that. How typical of you.


guest Nov 16, 2007 - 07:19 pm
But does the Explorer have a "no war for oil" sticker on it? You're not truly conforming to the bobo-chic of the area until your SUV has one of those on it.

Did the big bold MPG numbers on the Explorer sticker magically lower themselves after you learned about the "SUV gas mileage" exceptions. "Oops, you caught us, the MPG's really 12 not 35!" Cool mind reading technology!


Someone's angry. guest Nov 16, 2007 - 09:16 pm
Right on, m1ek.

Lee Nichols Nov 17, 2007 - 08:43 am
No, I bought the car from my grandmother, so there was no MPG sticker of any sort. Another great example of a person deciding he knows somebody else's situation off of a tiny scrap of information.

m1ek Nov 17, 2007 - 11:58 am
Lee, you're projecting. Your case is reasonable given what you knew at the time; hers isn't (there's no way somebody in her field wouldn't know full well what her choice to live out there and its concomittant driving does to the environment).

Unless she never goes shopping and always works from home; she's far worse for the environment than if she lived next to UT and went out every other day for field research.

I say this as somebody who thinks the right-wingers ought to burn in hell for lying about climate change all this time, by the way, but I can't stand self-identified environmentalists who actually pollute more than a right-wing lawyer in Tarrytown.


As for Northcross m1ek Nov 17, 2007 - 12:01 pm
I'm not the guy claiming they're a bunch of rich people trying to keep out a poor peoples' store. You're confusing me with somebody else.

Apologies … Lee Nichols Nov 17, 2007 - 12:56 pm
… if I confused you with some of your fellow bombthrowers who have posted about Northcross on this site. But I still find your holier-than-thou attitude toward people less pure than you galling.

Hey Lee - your bombthrower RIGHT HERE BUDDY guest Nov 17, 2007 - 02:04 pm
I haven't called them out, but I can start now. It's true. The neighbors against Wal-mart are by and large rich people trying to protect their perceived property values. Nothing more.

Right here buddy - bring it. I thought you could be objective.

Guess I was wrong.

Look at the property values. They are way sky high. I'm sick of seeing RG4N signs in some douchebag's yard who moved in 18 months ago just to flip his house.

I don't give a flying fuck about property values - I am gonna stay here, as long as not too many more douchebags move in.


"bombthrowers"? guest Nov 17, 2007 - 02:31 pm
lmao.

you're one to talk.




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