Lecture: Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago – Jan 30

Deep Time, Global Change and YOU: Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago

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January 30 / 7-9pm 

Room 1900, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.

Free

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Human greenhouse gas emissions will alter conditions on earth for thousands of years. The past event that best mirrors current warming occurred 56 million years ago & is called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. Dr. Wing will explain what we know about the causes of PETM, and what we have learned about its effects on ecosystems. The lessons of deep time have great relevance as we rapidly mold our planet in the ongoing geological epoch, the Anthropocene.