A Global Warming Primer in 15 Minutes

A Global Warming Primer in 15 Minutes
Presentation from the South Church Harvest Dinner

October 19, 2013

On October 19th, the SC Green Team hosted a vegetarian/low impact pot-luck dinner and cook-off in fellowship hall at the church. It was preceded by an Indian food cooking demonstration by guest participant Anil Navkal.

About 35-40 people of all ages turned out, and got to sample some tasty vegetarian dishes. A good time was had by all.

After dinner, I gave this short presentation to the group. My goal was to present some basics on global warming and how we can solve it - and do this in 15 minutes. Much of the content came from a presentation I got at the Climate Reality Training I took in Chicago this past summer. This training was put together by the Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore.  It was an inspiring and invigorating 3 days, where I met many wonderful people who were committed to protecting our common planet. There were more than 1200 people at the session, and they came from all 50 states in the US and more than 40 countries around the world. A lot of great ideas were shared.

In my presentation here (see Power Point or pdf links below), I wasn't quite able to stay to my time limit goal - it ran about 23 minutes (as timed by my son Nick). But I hope it's still a good, brief summary of the climate change problem facing us, and a view on what we need to do.

I wanted to share it with everyone. If you have any questions, please let me know.  For more information on climate change and global warming, look at the "Start Here - Climate Reader" link on the right of this page.

Peace,
Mark
Presentation (PowerPoint)
Presentation (PDF)