Oct. 19, 2006

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Millennium Lecture Series Examines Global Warming

UTEP’s Millennium Lecture series will present a special showing of the Discovery Channel's "Global Warming: What You Need to Know " at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in the Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 106.

Produced in 2006, the two-hour documentary defines and illustrates global warming, taking viewers around the world to “hot spots” already feeling the strong effects of this trend. An international team of experts, including NASA’s top climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, and Princeton University professors Michael Oppenheimer and Stephen Pacala, discuss what they see as the realities of global warming in our changing environment.

Produced by the Discovery Channel, the BBC and NBC News Productions, “Global Warming” is hosted by Tom Brokaw and aims to arm viewers with information about the causes, concepts and possible solutions to this serious issue.

An informal reception will follow the documentary presentation.

Since its inception in 2000, the Millennium Lecture Series has welcomed more than 25 prominent speakers to campus to present on topics that have a broad impact on society and culture.

This year, the series explores the changing environment. Although the environment is always changing, the recent rate and magnitude of such changes have forced this topic to the forefront of public discourse. Climate change, resource depletion, energy use and production and environmental impacts on human health are among the increasingly important topics to be explored during the year.

The Millennium Lecture Series is sponsored by the President’s Office and the Center for Environmental Resource Management.

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