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Why Radical Interventions are Needed Now to Stop the Climate Apocalypse

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Date:
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Sierra Club Loma Prieta
Location Details:
Online

Climate Emergency and the Need for Radical Interventions

Wed, Jul 8, 2020 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PT

This month’s zoom presentation is by Associate Professor Emeritus Jerry Kroth
of the Graduate Program at Santa Clara University. He will present on climate change –
Climate Emergency: Why Radical Interventions are Needed Now to Stop
the Climate Apocalypse.

Prof. Jerry Kroth presents a concise review of climate change science which paints an almost apocalyptic picture of where the planet is heading. Both conventional and radical solutions are proposed to prevent 1.5 degrees of warming.

But if humanity fails—and we have less than 10 years to drawdown emissions by 50 percent—we will rapidly be on our way to two degrees and breaching three horrific tipping points of no return. The remedies are drastic. The solutions are not easy. Still it is all within the realm of possibility.

There is hope, but that hope dangles by a gossamer thread that depends on global commitment and action today.

Organized By: Guadalupe Regional Group of Sierra Club Loma Prieta
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jul 5, 2020 9:00PM
§Sierra Club Loma Prieta
by Sierra Club Loma Prieta
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COMMON DREAMS (June 27, 2020): 'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature

". . .temperatures in the Arctic continued higher than normal in the latest sign of the ongoing climate crisis."

"What climate change is doing is moving the distribution of weather events, such that historically low-frequency, extreme events occur more frequently. Had the climate not changed due to man-made greenhouse gases, the heat we've seen in parts of Siberia would have been a 100,000-year event." --Carl Parker, Weather Channel meteorologist

For the full article, go to: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/27/warning-sign-major-proportions-number-siberian-forest-fires-increase-fivefold-week
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