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Join us for a dance party featuring Henry C. and the Willards to help PCEI break in and support the new Nancy Taylor Memorial Pavilion. Donations collected that evening will go support the completion of the Nancy Taylor Memorial Pavilion at the PCEI Nature Center.

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.

Open to the public. Please email Carole Wells for an agenda.

The PCEI Nature Center needs your help! As a hub for environmental education and sustainable living projects, we are in constant need of volunteers to help maintain and improve our 12.3-acre site. Join us every Tuesday for Drop-In Volunteer Day 10am-4pm. If you have a specific skill set, or would like to be a project

Open to the public. Please email Carole Wells for an agenda. Need directions to PCEI?

We are excited to show off the PCEI Nature Center after the sun goes down! Full moon hikes will be centered on nocturnal animals, phases of the moon, history and folklore surrounding our lunar companion. Star parties are all about looking up! We’ll point the telescopes up, turn off the lights, and learn about the “creatures” in the night sky. Bring the family for these unique opportunities!

Cost: Free for PCEI members and K-12 students, $5 for non-members

Directions to the PCEI Nature center can be found at http://www.pcei.org/nature-center/