Wisconsin Academy: Join Us for a special “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” series presentation on climate change and public health at the UW Arboretum

Explore the links between global warming, the environment, and public health at the next Academy Evenings presentation, Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the Wisconsin Landscape. University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Jonathan Patz, director of Global Environmental Health, will discuss research that indicates a relationship between the rise in global temperatures and the degradation of our natural environment. Patz, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist and lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will explain how sea-level rise, changes in the landscape, and cycles of flood and drought could deliver new and unexpected health risks to the Great Lakes region.

A continuation of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” series and in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Arboretum as part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, Patz’s Academy Evenings presentation will be held on Sunday, November 15, at 2:30 pm in the UW Arboretum Auditorium, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison. The presentation is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 2:00 pm.

About Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future

Who will we be in the future and what are the events that will shape us? In the “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” series of Academy Evenings presentations, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters hopes to address these questions and more. “Wisconsin 2050” shows us our state and world through the lens of the year 2050, allowing us to make some intelligent projections about our future based on current affairs, contemporary knowledge, and research by some of our best minds. The “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” series is sponsored by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin–Madison, M&I Bank, the Evjue Foundation, and Isthmus Publishing Company.