[FLPERMACULTURE] Presentation: Climate Change: The New Urgency... Schuyler & Tompkins Counties March/April 2007

[Michael Burns]

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Climate Change:
The New Urgency of Emission Reduction,
and How to Make a Difference
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Presentation:

Scientist Sylvester Johnson, Ph.D. Applied Physics, describes how to  
harness the most powerful social and economic engine in history to  
transitioning to renewable energy sources. Dr. Johnson also outlines  
political and business opportunities driven by the need to implement  
governmental and personal strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas  
emissions.

Reasons for urgency include acceleration of trends leading to losses  
from weather-related disasters ($200 billion in USA in 2005),  
acceleration of glacial melting, rising sea level, 25% decrease in  
volume of Arctic sea ice since 1979, collapse of Antarctic ice  
shelves, increasing oceanic acidity, accelerating rises in  
temperature that increase the spread of insect-borne diseases,  
increasing evaporation leading to increased water stress, crop  
failures, and loss of rain forests that have previously retained  
reservoirs of carbon from the atmosphere, and increasing release of  
methane from melting permafrost tundra and hydrates.

The presentation is oriented towards the layperson.

Presented in association with the Museum of the Earth at the  
Paleontological Research Institution of Cornell University.

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This presentation is distinguished by the positive emphasis on  
detailed action steps for making a difference, in combination with  
compelling graphics and description of the many accelerating  
repercussions of climate change and global warming.

For a preview, the slides and handouts can be accessed free from the  
non-profit website http://www.climatehealth.net.

The schedule of upcoming presentations:

–March 2007–

*Brooktondale Community Center
on Saturday March 3rd
  from 7 PM to 8:15 PM
(524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale, NY 607-539-6537)

*Cayuga Nature Center
on Thursday March 15th
from 7 PM to 8:15 PM
  (1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 607-273-6260)

–April 2007–

*Engineers for a Sustainable World
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
on Monday April 16th
from 4:45 PM
(G76-Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall)

*Greenstar Coop
on Wednesday
April 18th
from 7 PM to 8:15 PM
(701 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca NY).
Please call Greenstar at 607-273-9392 for reservations)

*Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County
Rural Urban Center
on Thursday April 19th
from 7 PM to 8:30 PM
(208 Broadway, Montour Falls, NY 607-535-7161)

Learn more about how to make a difference...
...by increasing energy efficiency
...by making the transition to renewable energy sources
...reducing the use of fossil fuels
...by the capture and storage of smokestack carbon dioxide

Learn the several accelerating repercussions of climate change that  
make it urgent to transition, and the reasons that climate change is  
almost certainly being caused to a great extent by human activities.

Visit the website: http://www.climatehealth.net

The author Sylvester Johnson can respond to questions sent from  
http://www.climatehealth.net
He offers his presentations without a speaker’s fee.


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