Editorial: CU regents put politics over education when selecting Mark Kennedy as president
December 31, 2019
Mark Kennedy faces heated audience questions during an open forum on the CU Boulder campus. April 26, 2019 (Hunter Allen/CU Independent file)
When University of Colorado regents announced their finalist for the position of CU system president, Mark Kennedy became a contentious name overnight.
The former Republican congressman’s extremely conservative record and his rocky reputation as the University of North Dakota president caused a media frenzy as skepticism clouded the regents’ search and selection process. How, many asked, did a candidate who bears an anti-civil rights voting record and who served less than three years at a non-research university, one that is less than a third the size of CU Boulder and a sixth the size of the entire CU system, become the president of an R1 institution that claims to value progressivism, inclusion and respect?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming. Forecasters hadn t seen anything like that before, said Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, speaking about the storms that started on Saturday.
Typically, the air over the Arctic Ocean, especially when the water is covered with ice, lacks the convective heat needed to generate lightning storms.
But as climate change warms the Arctic faster than the rest of the world, that s changing, scientists say.
Scientists stunned by rare Arctic lightning storms north of Alaska By Syndicated Content
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) â Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming.
âForecasters hadnât seen anything like that before,â said Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, speaking about the storms that started on Saturday.
Typically, the air over the Arctic Ocean, especially when the water is covered with ice, lacks the convective heat needed to generate lightning storms.
Hadn t seen anything like that : Scientists stunned by rare Arctic lightning in Alaska Reuters
Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming. Forecasters hadn t seen anything like that before, said Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, speaking about the storms that started on Saturday.
Typically, the air over the Arctic Ocean, especially when the water is covered with ice, lacks the convective heat needed to generate lightning storms.
Electrical storms threaten boreal forests fringing the Arctic (File photo)
Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming.
“Forecasters hadn’t seen anything like that before,” said Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, speaking about the storms that started on Saturday.
Typically, the air over the Arctic Ocean, especially when the water is covered with ice, lacks the convective heat needed to generate lightning storms.
But as climate change warms the Arctic faster than the rest of the world, that s changing, scientists say.