{"id":8112,"date":"2019-09-23T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:46:43","slug":"elizabethtown-college-presents-climate-change-and-the-fate-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/elizabethtown-college-presents-climate-change-and-the-fate-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Presents: Climate Change and the Fate of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A lecture that explores the effects of climate change in the past and future<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to increase the public consciousness on climate change, Elizabethtown College Professor Michael Scanlin, who holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences, will hold the lecture, \u201cClimate Change and the Fate of Civilization\u201d at Elizabethtown College on <strong>Wednesday, Oct. 9 from noon to 2 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though climate change is an existential threat, it\u2019s a reality that hasn\u2019t quite penetrated the public consciousness,\u201d Scanlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Scanlin\u2019s lecture will explore the topic of how the Earth\u2019s climate system works with the aid of ocean currents and the atmosphere. Using that information, Scanlin will explain climate change\u2019s impacts and implications on present and future civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>Scanlin will also cover how human activities are connected to the current global warming trend; the potential environmental, economic, and societal problems that it could cause.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the lecture can be purchased by contacting <a href=\"mailto:IAenrichseries@etown.edu\">mailto:IAenrichseries@etown.edu<\/a>. For information on the lecture please call (717) 361-1489.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lecture that explores the effects of climate change in the past and future In order to increase the public consciousness on climate change, Elizabethtown College Professor Michael Scanlin, who holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences, will hold the lecture, \u201cClimate Change and the Fate of Civilization\u201d at Elizabethtown College on Wednesday, Oct. 9 from noon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[1239,1137],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-climate-change","tag-sustainability","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}