The Moral Imperative of Climate Change (Metropolitan Community Church)

Climate is the reality that our grandchildren will face their entire lives, as will future generations. In a warmer world, weather events will be more severe, sea levels higher, and growing seasons longer, among many other impacts. These will have broad, profound, and long lasting effects on the lives of organisms (including humans) and the interactions among them. Organisms will shift in range. Biological communities will become less diverse. Species will face extirpation and extinction. Diseases will be found in new places. Human civilization may be threatened. But there are opportunities as well!
Name: The Moral Imperative of Climate Change (Metropolitan Community Church)
Course Number: SOJUS 060 (MCC)
Course Time: On-Demand
Course ID: 00575
Course Days: On-Demand
Notes: Cost: FREE

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The study of climate change is developing very quickly. Significant new information is coming out—literally—every day. This on-demand webinar explains the basics, but it also mixes in some new information to help to provide viewers with an understanding of the world and our future.

 

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webinar-climate-change-stephen-wagenerPresenter: Dr. Stephen Mitchell Wagener

Dr. Mitch Wagener teaches climate ecology, entomology, and related courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. His research interests include the impact of historical events—such as the Industrial Revolution—on the environment.

Mitch began life in the Midwest, growing up a barefoot boy in the Ozarks and attending high school in Branson, Missouri—before it became so famous. After graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, he moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to attend graduate school. Mitch received a masters degree in Stream Ecology and a doctorate in Soil Ecology during his 13 years in Alaska. There, too, he met the lovely Rita Kabali, a native of Uganda, East Africa, to whom he has now been married 33 years. They have two lively daughters, Rohanna 27 (a history teacher in an inner-city middle school) and Danika 19 (a student at Ithaca College). Mitch enjoys—among other things—watching his daughter play lacrosse and explaining climate change to the public.

Ph.D. Soil Ecology. August 1995. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
M.S. Stream Ecology. December, 1984. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
B.S. cum laude. Fisheries and Wildlife. May, 1981. University of Missouri, Columbia.