CBH Talk | Confronting Climate Change Part 2: The Science
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert and NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt examine what we know about global warming and its effects on ecosystems.
Why we picked this
Elizabeth Kolbert wrote the book on extinction—literally—and Gavin Schmidt has 170 peer-reviewed publications on the climate. Part two of the CBH series strips away the noise and lays out what scientists actually know.
Elizabeth Kolbert and Dr. Gavin Schmidt bring two of the most authoritative voices in climate science to Brooklyn for the second installment of the Center for Brooklyn History’s Confronting Climate Change series. The evening focuses on what we know—with certainty—about the mechanics of planetary warming, what remains under active scientific investigation, and what the data tells us about the stakes ahead.
Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction and Life on a Little-Known Planet, and a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker who has spent decades translating climate science for general audiences without softening its implications. Schmidt is a climate scientist at NASA and NOAA with over 170 peer-reviewed publications and fellowship in the American Geophysical Union—one of the most cited researchers in his field.
This is part two of a three-part series: part one examined how doubt about climate consensus was manufactured, and part three will address pathways to solutions. Moderated by NPR Climate Desk correspondent Rebecca Hersher, and presented with support from Con Edison. Free and open to the public.