{"id":229016,"date":"2026-05-12T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:33:09","slug":"confronting-climate-change-continues-at-cbh-forums-in-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Confronting Climate Change\u2019 continues at CBH forums in Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2014 THE CENTER FOR BROOKLYN History continues its three part series, \u201cConfronting Climate Change,\u201d with an evening event Wednesday, May 13, on the science behind climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cThe Science \u2014 Understanding a Changing Planet,\u201d award-winning reporter Rebecca Hersher from NPR\u2019s Climate Desk will be joined in conversation by New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert and climate scientist Dr. Gavin Schmidt. They will discuss the realities of global warming, one of the most urgent issues of our time, and its impacts on ecosystems and humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kolbert will bring her expertise translating complex scientific concepts into digestible stories, including for her recently published collection of essays, \u201cLife on a Little-Known Planet.\u201d Schmidt will offer an authoritative scientific voice, drawing on his years of leadership in organizations such as NASA and NOAA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third event in the series, \u201cSolutions \u2014 From Innovation to Action,\u201d will take place on June 8 at the Center for Brooklyn History and feature climate scholars, lawyers, scientists and adaptation experts. More information and reservations can be found on the Center for Brooklyn History website. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2014 THE CENTER FOR BROOKLYN History continues its three part series, \u201cConfronting Climate Change,\u201d with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,53731,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-229016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-center-for-brooklyn-history","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}