Earth Week: The Latest in Global Climate Change Science, presented by College Hour was a talk led by respected author and past American River College professor Robert Christopherson. In the hour available, wide eyed, and full of passion, Christopherson gave an informative presentation about the past, present, and possible future of our beloved planet Earth.
Christopherson was revered by every person who spoke of him, and his acknowledgment in response was only a glimpse into the 30 years that he spent teaching at ARC. Students, faculty and staff had no other option but to sit on the floor and steps of Raef Hall, while some were left standing outside the entrance waiting for anybody to make room for them inside the building.
“This is an amazing college, one of the top community colleges in the state of California,” says Christopherson. “The challenge of students in their freshman, sophomore year is to get control of some of these issues of this century that they’re going to face in their life, and try to make that part of their studies, and design a career that would put them in a position, employment-wise, to be a problem solver, in any discipline.”
Bobbe Christopherson, his wife and photographer, has captured images of the couple’s twelve trips to the Arctic and Antarctic regions that can easily warm your heart and then fill it with anger when you hear the ill-fated facts and statistics that accompany them. 67% of polar bears will disappear by 2050, Lake Mead will be dead pool status by 2020, and the Arctic Ocean is forecast to be without ice by the summer of 2015. As Christopherson explains, this is an issue of prevention. We cannot go back in time, but we can prevent it for the sake of our evolution.
“The scientific consensus that climate change is being impacted and forced by humans has been solid for more than 12 years, and so it is time to get informed and to take action, there is no question about it,” proclaims Christopherson.
For more information, you can personally email Robert Christopherson, and ask for the “Climate Change Update” and “What Can I Do? I’m Only One Person,” at [email protected].
