October 7, 2022
Come join us for Let’s Talk Climate, a series of informal conversations about climate change, served up with some tasty foods.
Facilitators will start each session by sharing some ideas and information about the day’s topic to set the stage, and then engage the group in an open discussion. We’ll have some discussion questions in mind to help guide the conversations, but we’ll let the conversations go where you and other participants want to take them.
The Arctic is a critical area to understand as a first glimpse of changes that will be coming as global warming starts having a larger impact on driving climate change. If melting of the Greenland ice sheet causes too much freshening of North Atlantic waters, many bad things could follow ecologically and climatologically. The geopolitical realm of the Arctic is also moving to the global stage, in part as a result of Russia’s international ambitions and their impacts on current and future (Sweden and Finland) NATO members. We will pick out a few critical natural components of the Arctic in this session (sea ice, permafrost, glaciers), and discuss how they will have increasingly direct impacts on geopolitics in the near future.
- Facilitator: Professor Ben Edwards
All are welcome to this free event series – students, staff, faculty, and community members. Bring friends and colleagues.
This series is co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability Education and the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
For more information, visit: https://www.dickinson.edu/letstalkclimate
Further information
- Location: Kaufman 178
- Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Cost: Free