TX A&M Professors - "20-Year-Olds Need To Know They're Going To Grow Up In A Warmer World"

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Texas A&M-Kingsville's Regents professor of geography (http://geosciences.tamuk.edu/) Dr. James Norwine and Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering (http://www.engineer.tamuk.edu/) associate dean Dr. Kuruvilla John co-edit the book and will host a book-signing at the Barnes & Noble University Bookstore, located in the Memorial Student Union Building on Santa Gertrudis Avenue at University Boulevard, from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 23. The first 50 people to attend will each receive a free book.

A century from now, South Texas will experience the type of climate change that would occur if the entire region were moved 100 miles to the southwest, becoming both more tropical and more arid. "There's not a lot of fudge factor in the numbers," said Norwine. "Those who are 20 years old need to know they're going to grow up in a warmer world. People can take that to the bank."

He also stresses the book's objective and scientific approach. "Readers get a fair, understandable depiction of the most current scientific climate data about our area," he said. "We also are clear in categorizing our predictions as hypotheses, noting those in some areas that are untested."

Norwine and John call climate change "…a regional challenge which we believe is the greatest test South Texas has faced since its first human inhabitants arrived ten or so millennia ago." The co-editors and authors use the latest climate data to sketch an outline of what the South Texas region will look like as the 22nd century begins:

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and dearly hope that we can come together to offset some of this warming. In November I visited and photographed the last truly wild whooping crane population at Aransas NWR, they will surely be affected if not put into extinction with the loss of the salt marshes they use in the winter.