Presented as part of the Hurst Lecture Series.
Featuring Porter Fox, climate journalist, Columbia University teacher, and author of “Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them,” and Jeff Goodell, award-winning environmental writer and best-selling author of “The Heat Will Kill You First” in conversation with Carolyne Heldman, producer and host of “Behind the Lens,” a weekly podcast for the non-profit news organization The Lens in New Orleans.  As climate change accelerates, so does the intensity and frequency of extreme weather. Fox, an expert on the role of warming oceans in fueling powerful storms, and Goodell, a leading voice on the deadly consequences of rising global temperatures, will examine the science behind hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, and record-breaking heat. Together, they will explore what these escalating climate events mean for our planet, our communities, and the urgent need for action.
Paepcke Auditorium, doors at 5:30 pm

While attendance at the event is free and open to everyone, registration is required, and capacity is established on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Parking
Parking is very limited. Please carpool, walk, bike, or ride RFTA.

You can purchase Porter Fox’s latest book “Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them” here. Books will also be available for purchase at the event. Book signing to follow.

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms. Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. 

You can purchase Jeff Goodell’s latest book “The Heat Will Kill You First” here. Books will also be available for purchase at the event. Book signing to follow.

“Entertaining and thoroughly researched, Jeff Goodell brings the subject of climate-driven extreme heat to life in his comprehensive look at heat’s substantial impact on humanity’s past, present, and future.”―Former Vice President Al Gore

“Through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and fascinating scientific explanations, Goodell brings to life heat as a world re-making force. In his skillful hands, the climbing temperature is revealed as an invisible, planetary animator that is already pushing landscapes, bodies, and social systems to their limits – and, unless we change course, it will take humanity to an oven-like climate that will feel more like a war than a home. This searing plea for a better, fairer and cooler future should be read by anyone with skin in the game – which is every single one of us.”―Naomi Klein, author of the New York Times bestselling This Changes Everything

Porter Fox is the author of four books, most recently, “Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them.”

He is a MacDowell fellow and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Jeff Goodell’s most recent book is the New York Times best-seller “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.” It was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Economist, and The Los Angeles Times and was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Goodell is the author of six previous books, including “The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World,” which was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He has covered climate change for more than two decades at Rolling Stone and discussed climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He was a 2016 New America Fellow and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

Carolyne Heldman Rovira has been in media for 35 years, and is currently the podcast host and producer for The Lens, a non-profit news organization in New Orleans. Prior to that she served as Executive Director at Aspen Public Radio where she launched four weekly news, public affairs, and cultural affairs programs and live Town Hall broadcasts. She lives in Old Snowmass with her husband Doug.

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