April 22 Science Café a Big Success
Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, gave a public presentation on Climate Change to a large, attentive crowd on Earth Day, April 22. The Calvert Hotel’s Onyx Room, though only partially finished, was set up with over a hundred chairs to accommodate the group. Dr. Running is director of the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group
in the Dept. of Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Montana. He is one of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change who serves on the board of a scientific intergovernmental body which evaluates the risk of climate change caused by human activity. He received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Al Gore, "for efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” The question and answer session following the presentation was lively. The event was free and open to the public, sponsored by Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument. This was the first of a series of presentations by the Friends in The Calvert’s Onyx Room in a forum called “The Science Café.” Upcoming events in the fall 2010: nanotechnology, journey to outer space, Antarctic penguins.
The Missoulian quoted Running about winning the prize: “I never thought my name would be linked in any way, shape or form to something like this,” Running added. “I can almost certainly say that I won’t write anything else the rest of my career that will have this type of impact.We’ve got to get past all the petty bickering and get to work. This is about a big transition for society over the next 50 years. The path we are on is unsustainable. What the Nobel committee is saying is that we’ve got to wake up. We’ve got to change the course of the whole world.”
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