Thursday, October 18
JFK Building at Fort Worden State Park
$5 members, $7 non-members
The
Port Townsend Marine Science Center is sponsoring a lecture on the
science behind the complex nature of climate change on Thursday, October
18th at 7 p.m. at the JFK building at Fort Worden State Park.
Admission is $7, $5 for PTMSC members and free for ages 18 and younger.
"We're
honored to have Laura Tucker speak about the Earth's climate and how
it's changed throughout history," said Anne Murphy, PTMSC Executive
Director. "She's worked for 35 years in science education, with the last
20 at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science and was recently certified
as a Leader for Al Gore's Climate Reality Project."
In
the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance
and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years
ago, marking the beginning of the modern climate era - and of human
civilization. This lecture will take a critical look at the evidence
supporting the current understanding of global warming and climate
change.
A
group of local students from Port Townsend High School will be
participating in the presentation. They will be sharing ways they are
actively involved with the Port Townsend Climate Action Committee, and
plans they are implementing at the high school to reduce their carbon
footprint.
Tucker
will share slides and information gained at the training with Al Gore
and she'll tie in some of our local issues such as sea level rise and
ocean acidification.
