Silicon Valley Bank (Santa Clara, CA)
The Commonwealth Club welcomes Tim Flannery - conservationist, director of the South Australian Museum, and author of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. Flannery, one of the worlds pioneering paleontologists and biologists, offers a sobering history of global climate change citing the possibility of as much as 95% of all species being on the brink of extinction.
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<p>For years, scientists have been concerned with the extreme weather conditions – hurricanes, droughts, and heat waves leaving little doubt that our planet has reached a global climatic tipping point. Glaciers are melting at a rate ten times faster than previously thought and atmospheric gases have reached unprecedented levels. </p> <p>Flannery, one of the worlds pioneering paleontologist and biologist offers a sobering history of global climate change citing the possibility of as much as 95% of all species being on the brink of extinction. He is especially critical of the U.S. and his own home country of Australia with regards to energy consumption and leads a highly skeptical charge against the automotive and petrochemical industries’ plan for a gradual transition into a “hydrogen economy”. Flannery cites that in order for our Earth’s climate to stabilize we would need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by at least 70% by 2050. </p>
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, presenting over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903, the Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Erin Brockovich in 2001. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have all given landmark speeches at the Club.
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