BRUNSWICK — Paul Andrew Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, will share his personal experiences of going to some of the Earth’s most remote and challenging places, and of the scientific discoveries he and his teams have made.
“Climate Change Realities and Opportunities: What Earth’s Most Remote Places Tell Us About the State of Our World and the Future,” will be presented at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 4 in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, at Bowdoin College.
Mayewski will describe the journey that they, and the scientific community, have made from a “gradualist” viewpoint — thinking that humanity was an inconsequential observer in a slowly changing climate — to the realization that we are deeply and irrevocably involved in the shortand long-term fate of a temperamental climate capable of dramatic changes in a matter of only a few years.
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