Science for Kids: Snow Day!Join us for a snow day at the library. Using instant snow, students will experiment with the properties of a polymer, compare real snow to instant snow, and discover how the elements (water, salt) affect instant snow (for ages 5-12).
This presentation will describe the basic large-scale and local climatology of California, the mechanisms of change, and the uncertainties associated with climate model simulations and analysis. As part of our role in the 2010 California Climate Assessment, sixteen Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change global climate models were downscaled to develop ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
'Earth: The Climate Wars -- Episode I: The Battle Begins'A film by Iain Stewart. In the 1970s the world seemed to be falling apart. From acid rain to overpopulation, ecological concerns were at the fore. And it was at this time that climate change first became a hot political issue. But it wasn't global warming that frightened scientists, it ...
For untold centuries, people have looked to the distant skies in search of life -- be it God-like or heavenly, demonic or the whole gamut of bizarre extraterrestrials imagined. Today, for the first time in human history, science is getting close to answering the eternal question of what lies beyond, ...
