The Planet Ocean
Seminar Series
is free and open to the public.
The seminar is held in the
Hodder Hall of Mentors, the
main auditorium at the UNCW
Center for Marine Science,
5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane. The
seminar will begin promptly at
6:30 p.m. Refreshments will
immediately follow.
February 10, 2015
UNCW Center for Marine Science Auditorium
Seminar 6:30 p.m. / Refreshments 7:30 p.m.
Climate Whiplash:
What Happens AFTER Global Warming?
Due to limited seating,
reservations are required.
Advance registration for
Bluefish Society members will
end Jan. 23. The general
public may begin registration
on Jan. 26.
To reserve seats, call the
Center for Marine Science at
910-962-2301.
For driving directions and
more information about CMS:
www.uncw.edu/cms
Accommodations for disabilities may
be requested by contacting CMS
three days prior to the event.
with Dr. Curt Stager
Author and Professor, Paul Smith’s College Department of Natural Sciences
Most debate over global warming looks only as far
ahead as 2100 AD, but what happens after that? As
Curt Stager, author of "Deep Future: the Next 100,000
Years of Life on Earth," argues, our fossil fuel
emissions will interfere with climates for much longer
than most of us, scientists included, yet realize. Even
in the best-case scenario, the world won't fully
recover for tens of thousands of years, and possibly
much longer. What will life in that shockingly deep
future be like? Some will win and some will lose. On
the bright side, we've already prevented the next
nation-crushing ice age. But as the Earth finally starts
to cool down again, "climate whiplash" will force
people, animals, and plants to reverse their adaptive strategies. Losers may
then become winners - but exactly how the future plays out is ultimately up
to us as we search for a sane, sustainable path forward in this new geologic
epoch, the "Age of Humans."
Curt Stager is a paleo-ecologist, award-winning educator,
and science journalist whose research focuses on the
environmental histories of Africa, Peru, and the eastern
United States. He has published extensively in major
journals including Science and Quaternary Research, was
an expert reviewer for the IPCC, and has written for
periodicals such as National Geographic, The Huffington
Post, and Fast Company. He also co-hosts Natural
Selections, a weekly science program on North Country
Public Radio. His latest book, “Your Atomic Self,”
explores our close elemental ties to the world. Named the Carnegie-CASE
Science Professor of the Year for New York in 2013, Curt teaches natural
sciences at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks, and is a research associate
with the Climate Change Institute in Orono, ME. And if nobody stops him, he
sometimes plays old-time banjo and guitar.
Bluefish Society membership entitles you to preferred seating at Planet Ocean seminars
and much more. Please join our school of Bluefish Society members and help us keep the
outreach tradition at CMS afloat. For details, call us at 910-962-2408.