Event Listing - Conferences
Tue Mar 11

Global Warming: Lessons From the Past to Predict the Future


Tel. 415-293-4600
Email Global Warming: Lessons From the Past to Predict the Future
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$15

Location
Date and Time
World Affairs Council
312 Sutter Street, Ste. 200
San Francisco, CA 94108
district: San Francisco

Tue Mar 11 (6:00 PM) - Registration: 5:30 PM

Description
Who: Brian Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Event: Anthropologist and historian Brian Fagan joins the Council to discuss how the earth’s previous global warming phase—a millennium ago—might have reshaped human societies and how these subtle changes in the environment had far-reaching effects on human life from the Arctic to the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. With lessons for our own time, Fagan recounts how the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries and the drought and famine that ensued—perhaps a preview of today’s global warming. He warns that the history of the Great Warming, particularly our vulnerability to drought, suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change and the potential for severe disruption in our lives in the years to come.

Admission Costs: Council Members: FREE; Students: $5; Nonmembers: $15