[ZeroES.announce] EVENT (WEDNESDAY): Homo Sapiens on Thin Ice - How Climate Change will Affect Humanity

[Robert Wiblin]

*** EVENT THIS WEDNESDAY (PLEASE FORWARD/PRINT) ***

Homo Sapiens
ON THIN ICE:
How Climate Change will Affect Humanity

Dr. Andrew Glikson
Wed 7th March
Manning Clark Center T4 1pm-2pm

Dr Andrew Glikson discusses the origins of mass extinctions through
the Earth's geological history and what relevance this history has to
the current crisis in the biosphere. He asks the crucial question, "do
humans have the ingenuity and technology to mitigate climate change
and protect their planet from its severe consequences"?

This has particular relevance to Australia as our continent, located
between the southward contracting Antarctic wind vortex and the
equatorial El-Nino is at the forefront of dangerous climate change -
inclucing droughts, fires and severe flooding of coastal population
centres.

Andrew Glikson's (Visiting Fellow: Department of Earth and Marine
Science and the Planetary Science Institute) research focus at the
Australian National University is on major upheavals in the Earth's
history, including the consequences of asteroid/comet impacts,
volcanic activity, ice ages, greenhouse events and related mass
extinctions of species.

Please see our website for more about the ANU Zero Emissions Society:
www.anuzeroemissions.org .

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Robert Wiblin					Robert Wiblin
Science PhB					President
Australian National University		ANU Zero Emissions Society
e: robertwiblin at gmail.com		e: society at anuzeroemissions.org
p: 02 62628991					w: www.anuzeroemissions.org
m: 0401242877
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