{"id":30028,"date":"2021-12-01T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=30028"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:07:11","slug":"december-science-on-tap-to-focus-on-the-good-news-from-climate-change-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2021\/12\/01\/december-science-on-tap-to-focus-on-the-good-news-from-climate-change-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"December Science on Tap to focus on the good news from climate change, biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Earlier this month, at the United Nations global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, 197 countries \u2013 including the United States \u2013 signed a climate pact that included pledges to reduce methane gas pollution, deforestation, and coal financing.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s good news. Really good news.<\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/a>

Michelle Rogers. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Even so, when people discuss climate change, they often focus on the bad news. Climate scientists, politicians and climate activists, for example, argued that the Glasgow summit resulted in only incremental progress<\/a> toward calming a changing climate.<\/p>\n

Michelle Rogers<\/a> \u2013 a principal investigator for Austin Peay State University\u2019s Center of Excellence for Field Biology<\/a> \u2013 wants to focus on the good news. And she will when she discusses climate change at the next Science on Tap at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, at Upstairs at Strawberry Alley Ale Works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have spent a month making a very purposeful effort to pull together all the most positive things, the best stories \u2013 the things we can look forward to \u2013 and put it all together,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve got things from the international level and national level to some very local stories about things that are good and are coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title of the discussion will be \u201cGood News in Climate and Biodiversity,\u201d and much of the presentation will focus on the good that\u2019s happening here in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

\u201cClarksville-Montgomery County has really put their money where their mouth is by starting a sustainability board that meets every month to decide how we can be a more sustainable city,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cThat\u2019s huge and really wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers also has asked several local experts to attend the Science on Tap event to talk to people after the presentation. They include:<\/p>\n