Terry Root, who grew up in Albuquerque and is now at Stanford, will be speaking. From the museum:

By mid-century the global average temperature will quite likely be 2 to 4C warmer.  The most recent Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change states that with 2C, 20% of the known species could be marked for extinction and 40% if the temperature increases 4C.  Saving as many species as possible may require using the crisis technique of triage, but it requires a lot of advanced planning.  Should we start now?

Dr. Root's work focuses on large-scale ecological questions investigating factors shaping the ranges and abundances of animals and plants. Terry L. Root is a Senior Fellow/University Faculty at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. She was born and raised in Albuquerque,  graduating from Sandia High School and the University of New Mexico, going on for advanced degrees at Boulder and Princeton.

7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, 1801 Mountain NW, in Albuquerque's Old Town neighborhood.