Climate Change Committee meeting
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Climate Change Committee Meeting
Presentation: Saguaros, Sequoias, Yosemite and the Paradise Fire
Presenter: Bruce Melton, Climate Change Now Initiative, ClimateDiscovery.org
Special Date Because of Labor Day - September 9, 6:30-8:00pm, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Office, 6406 N I-35, Ste. 1805 (entrance on Middle Fiskville Rd. at NW edge of LINC shopping center, near Easy Tiger) Google Map Link - https://goo.gl/maps/GWfHeRH97Vm
You can also join our Zoom video conference here: https://zoom.us/j/5133069449 .
6:30-7:30 Join Bruce Melton from the Climate Change Now Initiative as he presents a slide show from his summer field work filming Climate Change Across America. This season's filming observed saguaros, sequoias, Yosemite and the Paradise Fire. Warming in the desert has acclimatized saguaros so that polar vortex cold events cause frostbite that can kill. Sequoias are burning in these new extreme climate change caused fires; when sequoias are not supposed to burn. The beetles are in Yosemite now and they get worse even with normal precipitation because warming increases evaporation nonlinearly and trees only care about moisture that remains in the soil. Fourteen-thousand simultaneous catastrophes happened in ten hours in the Paradise Fire. Impacts with 1.5 C warming are unthinkable. Solutions are as simple as treating human sewage.
Instagram Video Journal - https://www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melton/
7:30-8:00 Climate Change Committee Meeting - After the program, we will provide brief updates on the Alec protest, Austin Energy, the Permian Highway Pipeline, transportation, social media, and tabling opportunities. We will identify the action teams people can sign up for and where we especially need volunteers. We will also tell people how we can support our youth and participate in the International Climate Strike set for September 20 in preparation for the UN Climate Summit 2019 in New York on Sept. 23. Whether you have only minutes a month or hours a day, join us to build a mass movement to stop climate change. Or join another group fighting this vital cause.