The Global Forests of Greenhouse Earth - Boston Events INSIDER

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Did you know that the Arnold Arboretum is open all winter? When it snows, they plow the paths! Here's a lecture on ancient forests and global warming. 7-8:30pm. Mon 2/6. Hunnewell Building at the Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA .

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The Global Forests of Greenhouse Earth

Kirk Johnson, Vice President of Research & Collections and Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

1 Session: Monday, February 6, 7:00pm–8:30pm

Location: Hunnewell Building

Earth's climate has passed from times characterized by huge ice caps to times when there was almost no ice at all and both Greenland and Antarctica were covered by forests. Kirk Johnson studies fossil leaves to refine geologic time, reconstruct ancient landscapes, track climate change, and document the evolution and extinction of species and ecosystems. For 30 years he has been chasing the 50–100 million year-old-forests of the last great global greenhouse period. Join him as he takes you on a journey to an entirely different Planet Earth—an environment that may help us to better understand changes occurring in our own time.

Free, but registration requested

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