Peter D. Ward @ The Public Library- CANCELLED

Since 1993, the good people of the Library Foundation have been putting together an award-winning series, ALOUD, at the Central Library downtown.  Lectures, readings, performances and conversations featuring key figures in the arts and humanities, business, politics, and science abound! Most of programming is free and some is even podcasted! And yes, they encourage you to talk amongst yourselves...with them. Hooray for interactive play!

Tonight, Peter D. Ward has a conversation with Margot Roosevelt, an environmental reporter for the LA Times. What are they going to discuss? Why of course, "The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps" - here's why: Mr. Ward is a NASA astrobiologist and he can explain what our world will look like as the sea levels continue to rise. No, we won't all go away, but it sure will transform human life as we know it.

Peter D. Ward is a professor of biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He also serves as an astrobiologist with NASA. Ward is the author of more than a dozen books, including the highly acclaimed Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe with Donald Brownlee and Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Margot Roosevelt has covered environmental news for the Los Angeles Times since 2007. Before that she was an environmental reporter at the Washington Post and went on to cover Congress and politics, and serve as New York bureau chief. After the Post, she joined Time Magazine where she was a foreign correspondent, based in Paris, and a national correspondent, based in Los Angeles.