Climate change talk at Rockingham Library - The Vermont Journal & The Shopper - Vermont Journal
Climate change talk at Rockingham Library - The Vermont Journal & The Shopper
ROCKINGHAM, Vt. – On Thursday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m., at the Rockingham Library, Professor Guy McPherson will facilitate a discussion about anthropogenic climate change. Included will be consideration of climate change as an existential threat, along with actions we can take as individuals and as a community.
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. Professor Emeritus of conservation biology at the University of Arizona, McPherson lived off-grid for more than a decade. His published works include more than a dozen books, and hundreds of scholarly articles. Professor McPherson has been featured on television, radio, and in several documentary films. He is a blogger and cultural critic who speaks to general audiences around the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting earth’s cataclysmic changes.
This program is free and open to the public.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.