On the Front Lines of Climate Change: From the North Pole to the White House

Presented by Andrew C. Revkin

Juneau: September 18, 7:00 pm at the Egan Library on UAS campus

Anchorage: September 19, 7:30 pm at the Sydney Laurence Theatre in the Performing Arts Center

Fairbanks: September 20, 7:00 pm at the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus

In an illustrated talk, Andrew Revkin, prize-winning author and environment reporter for the New York Times, charts the science and significance of global warming, drawing on nearly twenty years of covering climate research and politics in magazines, two books, and more than 300 climate stories for The Times in just the last seven years. Revkin claims that the problem of global warming is more complex than has been depicted in a host of books, films, and media coverage of late, but still constitutes an epic century-scale challenge. And the solution, stabilizing concentrations of greenhouse gases, will require a sustained energy quest that has not yet been made a national priority. He will also discuss his pioneering trip to the North Pole with a hardy climate-research team and sign copies of The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, his award-winning new book on the once and future Arctic, which is written for the whole family.