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Austin Sierra Club Climate Change Committee Meeting
September 9, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Hosted by the Sierra Club Climate Change Committee –
Presentation: Saguaros, Sequoias, Yosemite and the Paradise Fire
Presenter: Bruce Melton, Climate Change Now Initiative, ClimateDiscovery.org
Special Date Because of Labor Day – September 9, 6:30-8:00pm, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Office, 6406 N I-35, Ste. 1805 (entrance on Middle Fiskville Rd. at NW edge of LINC shopping center, near Easy Tiger) Google Map Link – https://goo.gl/maps/
You can also join our Zoom video conference here: https://zoom.us/j/5133069449 .
6:30-7:30 Join Bruce Melton from the Climate Change Now Initiative as he presents a slide show from his summer field work filming Climate Change Across America. This season’s filming observed saguaros, sequoias, Yosemite and the Paradise Fire. Warming in the desert has acclimatized saguaros so that polar vortex cold events cause frostbite that can kill. Sequoias are burning in these new extreme climate change caused fires when sequoias are not supposed to burn. The beetles are in Yosemite now and they get worse even with normal precipitation because warming increases evaporation nonlinearly and trees only care about moisture that remains in the soil. Fourteen-thousand simultaneous catastrophes happened in ten hours in the Paradise Fire. Impacts with 1.5 C warming are unthinkable. Solutions are as simple as treating human sewage.
Instagram Video Journal – https://www.instagram.com/
7:30-8:00 Climate Change Committee Business – The BIG event of the Fall will hopefully be the Greta Thunberg-inspired, youth-led, International Climate Strike and Climate Rally at the Texas Capitol on Sept. 20. The rally will start at noon and last about an hour and a half. The Austin Sierra Club through this committee is providing a lot of help and hope most of you can come. We have a cool project for our social media drive to drum up more attendees, and we may ask you to help with that.
We also have a big month of tabling opportunities – the biggest ever for the Sierra Club in Austin. Sitting at a table at some event is a great way to engage people one on one and sign them up to help fight the climate. Some of these are on weekends and some during the work week. We also need several volunteers who can run our Climate Change children’s activity. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it reaches people. We will have sign-up sheets for that, too.
We continue to need more people on our action teams. People can sign up for them as well. Our social media program is going well, but we’d like more of you to spend five minutes a week helping us with that, too.
Whether you have only minutes a month or hours a day, join us to build a mass movement to stop climate change.