In the absence of Past President Ernst—no singing.

Also, no guests.

 

President Elect Jim Damren called the meeting to order with a mighty strike on our bell.

 

 

        Steve and Carolyn Whitman, married 61 years

        Phil and Catherine Rentz, married 40 years

        Bruce and Holly Bergeron, married 38 years

 

Thought of the day from President Elect Jim Damren (thunk up while driving to work this morning): “If you don’t have something good to say, say nothing.”

 

 

Lynée Turek-Hankins, post-doctoral program in engineering and earth sciences at Dartmouth College. Dr. Turek-Hankins studies equitable climate-change adaptation and mitigation for the interconnected housing and energy sectors.

 

The types of questions raised by climate risk management are:

In her talk to the club, Lynée presented an overview of a class that could be entitled “Climate Science 101.” She used a number of slides illustrating the interpolated changes of the earth’s temperature over hundreds of thousands of years and the documented changes in the earth’s temperature since 1850 and the Industrial Revolution. Both analyses firmly establish as fact that human activity is the cause for our present experience of climate change.

 

 

The evidence is conclusive that CO₂ gases warm the planet. As CO₂ warms the planet, the buildup of its presence in the environment results in a “stock” problem, wherein it takes much more time to dissipate the carbon gas (with a half-life of 150 years) than it took to introduce it into the environment in the first place. Warming is fast; cooling is slow.

 

How can we manage these greenhouse gases?

 

 

Golf—net proceeds total $26,435.92.

Brewfest—next meeting is scheduled for July 8 at 2:00 at Service Credit Union.

Styrofoam—next drive will be in October.