Posted by: Sandy Steinman | July 21, 2021
Human-Caused Climate Change and Solutions in the Channel Islands and Southern California 7/29
Human-Caused Climate Change and Solutions in the Channel Islands and Southern California
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This FREE online event takes place on Thursday, July 29th at 7pm
Dr. Patrick Gonzalez, the Principal Climate Change Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service, will discuss how greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants, deforestation and other human sources have caused anthropogenic climate change in the Channel Islands and across Southern California. Observed impacts include increased temperatures over land and in ocean waters, increased wildfire, drought, sea level rise, and ocean acidification.
Patrick will also touch on how continued climate change increases future risks of invasive plant species and vegetation shifts. Energy conservation, renewable energy, public transit, and other actions could cut carbon emissions and reduce risks to the Channel Islands ecosystems.
This is sure to be an exciting discussion and one that will also include a
15-minute Q&A presented by Channel Islands Restoration and Dr. Gonzalez.
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Meet Our Presenter, Dr. Patrick Gonzalez:
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Dr. Patrick Gonzalez is a forest ecologist, the Principal Climate Change Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service, and Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He advances science-based action on human-caused climate change through research on climate change, ecosystems, wildfire, and carbon solutions and assistance to local people and policymakers to conserve biodiversity and protect human well-being.
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Dr. Gonzalez has conducted field research in Africa, Latin America, and the U.S., published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other journals, and contributed science to policy in positions in Washington, DC. He has also assisted field managers and local people
in 25 countries and 269 U.S. national parks.
He has stood publicly for scientific integrity and broadened public understanding of climate change in 122 published articles on his research in the New York Times and other media. He has also served as a lead author for four reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which the science panel awarded a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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