The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America presents Green Conversations with: Anthony Barnosky Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California - Berkeley and author of: "Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming" Joined by: Charles Marshall, Harvard Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Curator, Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology TODAY 5:00 pm Haller Hall Geological Museum, 1st Floor Harvard University 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA In Heatstroke, renowned paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they’re unprepared for - and adaptation usually isn't an option. This is not the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth. Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which means this time we can work to stop it. No one knows exactly what nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming. But Heatstroke gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved. Since 1990, Anthony D. Barnosky has been on the faculty at the University of California - Berkeley, where he currently holds the posts of professor of Integrative Biology, curator of Fossil Mammals in the Museum of Paleontology, and research paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Green Conversations are sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of these events are free and open to the public. Book sales, signing, and reception to follow. --- Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://harvard.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=1c6… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…