Aquarium of the Pacific

Aquarium Event

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Join Author Brian Fagan as he takes you on a journey through the warming world of the medieval times and relates it to the current condition of our warming world.

During his talk Fagan will explore the lessons we can learn from the higher temperatures of a thousand years ago and what is the most menacing climatic hazard facing future generations. Fagan is widely regarded as the world’s leading archaeological writer. He has served as a consultant for many organizations such as Time/Life, National Geographic Society, and Encyclopedia Britannica. He also has helped with the development of many public television programs, such as NPR’s series Patterns of the Past. He is the author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. He was trained as an archaeologist at Pembroke College, Cambridge and is currently an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Author Brian Fagan.