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LAST MINUTE lecture: In the future, how will global warming go down in Philly?
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| The end of days. |
| weblogs.newsday.com |
According to scientists, pretty badly. Personally, I'm picturing an even more dystopic version of when the Phillies won. Frat boys will flip cars, burn their underwear and loot stores — but there won't be a parade or cleaning crews to make it all better the next day. Just a countdown to doomsday. Here's what Nels Johnson, a Nature Conservancy scientist, says about it:
Today, Philadelphia sees 20 days of 90 degrees or warmer. Under some of the climate change scenarios — the more extreme ones especially — if [we] don’t really do much to control emissions over the next several decades, we could be seeing as many as 70 or more days of 90 degrees.
Hold on, 70 days of 90 degrees is a bad thing? It's hard to think of it like that when there are dozens of sundresses in my closet collecting dust. But seriously, folks, there isn't enough Arctic Splash in the whole of Phildelphia to make that level of climate change OK. Find out how you can curb your CO2 emissions to save the city at Johnson's lecture with Wayne Klockner, vice president of the Nature Conservany.
Tue., Feb. 10, 3:30-4:50pm, free, Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Enterprise Center, 32nd & Market sts., 215-895-2000, drexel.edu/sustainability/speakerseries.htm
