ERAO PRESENTS: A ZOOM TALK
Climate Change
Retired geologist Pauline Witzke asks the question:
"How Close are we to the Point of No Return?"
ERAO PRESENTS: A ZOOM TALK
Climate Change
Retired geologist Pauline Witzke asks the question:
"How Close are we to the Point of No Return?"
Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.
Register by February 9th, 2026
Participants are welcome provided they’ve paid their membership fee. Click here to join ERAO.
Pauline compares past geologic global warming events to current global warming, and includes how close we are to the point of no return, when that might happen, and how we can stop it.
Pauline Witzke (Hons. B. Sc, Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo 1982) is a retired geologist who lives in Belleville, Ontario. Her career included oil and gas exploration, environmental geology, and nuclear power operations.
Her talk summarizes global warming events from the geologic past:
How high atmospheric greenhouse gasses got
How much the global average temperature increased
How they affected life on earth
How long they lasted
Why they ended
Registration instructions:
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