Ars Technica Live: 15,000 years of evidence for climate change (location has been changed)

In case you hadn't heard, weird weather is here to stay. California, after years of drought, is now lighting up with flash flood warnings. This is just one aspect of climate change that's been spurred on by human activity.

How do we know that the climate is changing dramatically, and that this isn't just part of the planet's natural cycles? Join Ars Technica editor Annalee Newitz at this month's Ars Technica Live, for a conversation with UC Berkeley environmental scientist Lynn Ingram, who studies this exact question.

Ingram studies the history of climate and environmental change in California using sediment cores from lakes and estuaries, including San Francisco Bay. Dr. Ingram is a Fellow of the California Academy of Science, and is a Senior Fulbright recipient and Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley. Ingram has been a Professor in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Geography at UC Berkeley since 1995. She is the author of more than sixty published scientific articles on past climate change in California and the other locations around the Pacific Ocean, and she is the author of a book about the climate history and water resources in California (UC Press, 2013): The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow.

Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.

Filmed before a live audience, each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and an invited guest. The audience is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. 

Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:20pm. Then you can stick around for informal discussion over beer and wine. Can't make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.