Re-posted from the SVP notice sent over the mailing list-Today global climate change is altering not only the average global temperature and length of seasons but also sea level, rainfall, severe weather events, agricultural productivity, the spread of diseases and the distribution of plants and animals. Global-change scientists, including paleontologists, are developing models and acquiring data to understand the environmental and human consequences of modern climate change. The fossil record is a critical source of biological and environmental information for evaluating the effects of climate change on species, ecosystems and evolutionary processes.
In these three videos from the Climate Forum at the 2008 SVP annual meeting in Cleveland, three global-change scientists share how insights from the fossil record for ecological and evolutionary responses of plants and animals apply to climate changes underway today. The brief introduction at the beginning of each video is given by Catherine Badgley, University of Michigan (SVP Past President).
The videos can be viewed for free on the SVP website here:
Link to Global Climate Change: The Perspective from the Fossil Record.
Videos from the Climate Forum in Cleveland
Friday, August 14, 2009
SVP Climate Change Videos Now Online
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It would be cool if videos from all the presentations, lectures etc. were available for the public on the internet. I know about confidentiality and all that and doubt anything of the sort will happen soon, but it would go a long way towards increasing accessibility to the profession.
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