Audubon Everglades Presents

“Climate Change is Real: and it is Really Hurting Birds and Wildlife” 
with speaker Dr. Terry L. Root, Nobel Laureate

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7PM
Zoom-Hosted Presentation (advance registration required)

UPDATE: If you missed the program, you can catch it on our Program Videos page.

Audubon Everglades invites its members to the first program of the new year with speaker Dr. Terry L. Root, Professor Emerita at Stanford and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change 4th Assessment Report, which in 2007 was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore.

Back-to-back 100-year floods, extreme heat, and the polar vortex are all connected to the disruption of our climate due to greenhouse gas emissions. Since the late 1800s, the average global temperature has increased about 1.8oF (1oC), and we are on track to surpass the Paris Agreement target of 2.7oF (1.5oC) by 2030. In response to this rapid warming, much is changing on our planet, including earlier spring warming so flowers are blooming and birds are breeding earlier and species are moving to cooler regions on land and in the oceans. Unless we soon slow the rapid warming, enumerable people will suffer, due to heat waves, storm surges, and spreading diseases. Additionally, hundreds of thousands of species—including species we rely upon—will face extinction. We must stop our fossil-fuel addiction to avoid such problems. Thankfully, there are many things that we can do, collectively and individually, to decrease the emissions of CO2.  We just need the will to do it.
Dr. Terry L. Root is Senior Fellow (University Faculty) Emeritus in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.Her research addressed how plants and animals are changing with the changing climate.

Please check your email for a link from Audubon Everglades to register for this outstanding member Zoom presentation.