<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">Hello Missoulians,</p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">You are invited to a round table discussion and social gathering <span class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-aBn">this Monday, July 31 from 4-6 pm:</span> <br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="font-size:small"><br><strong><span class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-il">Big</span> <span class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-il">Picture</span> Climate Change: What Targets Must We Hit?</strong></span><br>The Public House<br>130 E. Broadway<br>Missoula<br>July 31, 2017<br><span class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-aQJ">4-6 pm</span></span><br><em>Cold beverages and appetizers provided!</em></span></p><p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em"><font color="#0000ff"><b><u>Sponsored by the Sierra Club.</u></b></font></p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em"><strong><span style="text-decoration-line:underline">As an extra bonus, Sierra Club member Claudia Narcisco will give an update on public lands issues and ways that you can engage with them.</span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">Come and enjoy a cold beverage and great conversation with others that care about climate change as much as you do.</p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em"><strong><span style="text-decoration-line:underline">As a full-time climate and energy organizer for the Sierra Club, I would greatly appreciate hearing, directly from you, your thoughts about the climate crisis and current efforts to address it.</span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">I, in turn, will share my feelings on the battle to stabilize the climate, as well as tell you about an exciting resolution the Montana Sierra Club chapter is preparing that calls on the national Sierra Club to <strong><span style="text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">change it's global warming temperature target from 1.5 Celsius to .5 Celsius.</span></span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">Dr. James Hansen and 14 colleagues lay out the case for a .5 C target in a <a rel="nofollow" class="gmail-m_921578651183298185m_-7899418144083080843gmail-m_706035193663668074m_-4893958216864565662gmail-m_-1593352214060141309yiv3222864762bold-smaller" href="https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/esd-8-577-2017.pdf" target="_blank">critically important paper</a> just published in Earth System Dynamics on July 18.</p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">Hope to see you Monday, July 31 at the Public House.</p><p style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1em">David</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">David Merrill<br>Senior Organizing Representative<br>Sierra Club<br>Missoula, MT<br>(406) 549-1142--office<br><br></div></div>
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