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CLIMATE CRISIS SLIDESHOW AT THE WELLS RESERVE

WELLS, MAINE - On Thursday, June 28 at 7 pm, the Wells Reserve hosts a live presentation taken from the slideshow in the major motion picture "An Inconvenient Truth." Steve Miller presents the show, which details the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. The presentation is free with Wells Reserve admission, but donations are accepted. Reservations are not needed. Please bring a mug for free organic coffee or tea. For information, call (207) 646-1555.

What is global warming? Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil and by clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. Temperatures are rising.

The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, it's already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable.

We're already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals are being forced from their habitat, and the number of severe storms and droughts is increasing.

The time to act is now. Small changes to your daily routine can add up to big differences in helping to slow global warming.

Steve Miller, the Coastal Training Program coordinator at the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in New Hampshire, was trained last year by Al Gore and a team of renowned climate change scientists and educators to give a version of Gore's slide presentation on the effects of - and solutions for - global warming.

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