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Sponsored by Friends of the Moscow Library. She recently published a book on this subject. PESC tried to set up a presentation from her back at the beginning of this year but conflicts got in the way. Her talk should be interesting and perhaps controversial because she presents climate change from the perspective of geologic history. Flyer about E. Kirsten Peters talk, “The Whole Story of Climate Change.”
While the recent work of climate scientists has added
greatly to our understanding of the fragility of climate, the
public rarely hears from geologists— even though
geologists have been studying climate change for almost
200 years. The typical American has the impression that
climate would be stable if it weren’t for industrialization and
the production of greenhouse gases from smokestacks and
cars. However, geologic history reveals a ceaselessly
changing climate going back millions of years before the
modern economy.
As The Whole Story of Climate explains, several long, cold
spells have been punctuated by short, warm ones. We are,
in fact, currently living in one of the short, warm periods
that the Earth has seen many times before. There is even a
serious hypothesis worth exploring that if it weren’t for the
greenhouse gases created for millennia by agriculture we
would today be headed back into a time of bitterly cold
temperatures worthy of the mastodons and mammoths
many of us read about as children.
Elsa Kirsten Peters grew up in Pullman. She was a geology major
at Princeton and earned her PhD in geology at Harvard. She has
taught undergraduate geology at WSU and is the author of several
books, as well as the syndicated “Rock Doc” newspaper column.
She has also published murder mysteries under the pen name
Irene Allen.
Can geothermal energy aid in mitigating climate change? University of Idaho PhD candidate Cary Lindsey will give a talk on the “Future of Geothermal Energy” Tuesday, January 20, in the 1912 Center Fiske Room at 7:30 p.m. She will discuss her research from Yellowstone Park and other “hot spots” as well as local geothermal projects. This presentation is sponsored by PESC and the UUCP Environmental Task Force. For further information, contact Pat Rathmann.
Can geothermal energy aid in mitigating climate change? University of Idaho PhD student Cary Lindsey will give a talk on the “Geothermal Energy: An overview of this renewable energy resource and its place in Idaho’s energy future ” on Thursday, Feb 26, in the UI Jansen Engineering Room 104 at 7:00pm. She will give an overview of geothermal energy including her research from Yellowstone Park and other “hot spots” and discuss geothermal energy opportunities in Idaho. This presentation is sponsored by the UUCP Environmental Task Force and the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition. The public is invited.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.
The showing of this film is cosponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESCI) and the Unitarian-Universalist Church of the Palouse Environmental Task Force.
Come, join us to learn and discuss.