Coming Soon to a taxpayer funded budget near you...

The Carbon Neutral Campus (H/T Instapundit and Bill Hobbs):

We, the undersigned presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities, are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of global warming and its potential for large-scale, adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects. We recognize the scientific consensus that global warming is real and is largely being caused by humans. We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80% by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.

These people are responsible for educating our next generation. So naturally, they dismiss science out of hand and make ground pronouncements of things they don't understand just to score political points.

Incidentally, I can assure you that the last thing a college campus needs are more reporting requirements, more bureaucracy, and especially more committees. This protocol calls for all three. We could probably be more carbon neutral by eliminating all of that hot air...

Luckily, no Maryland schools have signed up for this as of yet. But I have a feeling that some private or public school in our state is going to sign up for this, taking millions of taxpayer dollars with it.

Incidentally, take a look at their proposed solutions, which probably says more than any grand statement of purpose could.