One of the nation's top experts on a changing climate will be in Three Lakes Saturday along with two friends. They are billed as "The Three Tenors of Climate Change".
Dr. Ben Santer of California's Lawrence Livermore Lab, Dr. Hernando Garzon of California and Chip Duncan, a documentary filmaker will be at Three Lakes Center For the Arts. Santer says the presentation is an opportunity to hear from the public on what their concern are and to have conversation without the loud back-and-forth that has occured.
Santer has taken a methodical approach to making the case that climate change is happening..
"...Climate records, surface temperature records, records of ocean temperature, records of temperature changes high up in the atmosphere, records in the changes in clouds or the amount water vapor in the atmoshere. We look at all these observations of climate change and compare them with computer-model predictions of how climate should be changing as humans burn fossil fuels and increase levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...."
He says multiple places indicate a changing climate, not just average temperature and it's all the data together that makes the case. He says the situation is such that we can't wait any longer to make changes...
"...We can't just kick the can down the road and leave this real and serious problem for our kids and grandkids to deal with. That would be in the words of my son an 'epic fail'..."
Santer, Garzon and Duncan will be at the Three Lakes Center For The Arts Saturday evening at 8 p.m.
