Asheville teacher gives talk on global warming

Jason Sandford

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The CarolinianOnline.com has the story:

Last Thursday students, faculty, and guests gathered in the EUC for the Focus The Nation Luncheon: “Global Warming and the Arctic.” As a main part of the weeklong Focus The Nation event, this lecture started off a full day of panels, lectures, and discussions on sustainability, global warming, and climate changes.

This luncheon served as the keynote address about evidence of global warming in the Arctic areas. The speech was given by Dora Nelson, a science teacher from Asheville, who has made many trips to Alaska while studying global warming.

The presentation focused mostly on Nelson’s research of global warming and its effects on the area in which she studies: Barrow, Alaska. With a slideshow full of facts and images of polar shorelines, Eskimo culture, growing vegetation, and melting ice, Nelson explained how so many things proved the impact of global warming in that area, along with the rest of the world.

“The poles actually control the Earth’s climate,” said Nelson. “And climate shifts are extreme in the polar region. If we have a temperature change of one or two degrees here, we don’t think about it very much … but at that point it can create major changes.”