[SustainableTompkins] Global warming talk Tuesday night at the public library

[Valorie Rockney]

The news on global warming is grim. An international team of scientists
reported this weekend that the earth is heating up as a direct
consequence of human actions, and that we can expect higher sea levels
and more cataclysmic storms in the future.

Are we all doomed?  Can carpooling to work or switching to more
efficient lightbulbs really make any difference?  Should we even bother
to try to lessen our negative impact on the earth? Join Ithaca College
biologist Jason Hamilton tomorrow night, February 6, at 7 pm at the
Tompkins County Public Library for a candid discussion of global warming
and what, if anything, we can do about it.  Professor Hamilton presents
up-to-date scientific findings in a clear, lively, and engaging way.
The talk is free and open to the public, and children and teens are
welcome.  Please tell your friends, students, and colleagues.

We hope to see you there,

Valorie Rockney

>From today's Science News:

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The world's poor, who are the least responsible for
global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the
world on Monday.

>From last Friday's New York Times: 

PARIS, Feb. 2 - In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the
planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has
concluded for the first time that global warming is "unequivocal" and
that human activity is the main driver, "very likely" causing most of
the rise in temperatures since 1950. . . .Skip to next paragraph They
said the world was in for centuries of climbing temperatures, rising
seas and shifting weather patterns - unavoidable results of the buildup
of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. 

But their report, released here on Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate 

Change, said warming and its harmful consequences could be substantially
blunted by 

prompt action.

 

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Valorie Rockney

Public Program Coordinator

Tompkins County Public Library

607.272.4557, ext. 219

http:www.tcpl.org