NEXT PROGRAM MEETINGS
Updated 7/7/08
July 24, 2008, Brevard UU
Church, 7pm
RICHARD HEIM,
Acting Chief, Climate Monitoring Branch,
National Climatic Data Center
"Climate Change: An Introduction
to the Global Warming Discussion"
Global Warming and climate change have become a political issue in recent years and there is heated debate in scientific circles. Government censorship of climate scientists has even ocurred. What's going on with global warming? Why is there so much controversy? Our speaker will address these questions by discussing how climate has changed in the past, why man-generated greenhouse gases are so important, what the climate is doing now, and what these changes wil mean to us.
Richard Heim has a Bachelors Degree in Math and a Masters Degree in Meteorology and Climatology from the Univ. of Nebraska. He joined the National Cllimatic Data Center in 1985 and has been involved in drought and and climate monitoring for the last 20 years. He coordinates putting current drought conditions into a multi-century historical context by combining weather observations with tree ring data.
Our Brevard meeting place is at the
Unitarian Universalist Church, located on US64 west at Varsity Street
just before leaving downtown Brevard, across from McCosh's and the Cardinal
Drive-in.
TIME:
7 pm for socializing
7:30 meeting starts
The public is always invited.
Note
that our meeting day has changed from the 3rd Thursday to the 4th Thursday.
HENDERSONVILLE EVENTS AND MEETINGS
The
Four Seasons Sierra Club Study Group will meet on July 9th, 1:45pm at the
Terra Nova Restaurant on 4th Street in Hendersonville. The topic is
Henderson County water resources and the focus is the relationship between
rapid population grouwth and the impact on the water supply. Drought
is the problem.
Call
Barbara Barnett at 694-3738 for more information.
The public
is always invited.