Vatican climate scientist Ramanathan to speak at Creighton University

Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan.

The climate scientist won’t sugarcoat it: The fate of the world is no longer in the hands of the researchers and academics. Now, it’s up to everyone else.

“We’re wasting time talking to people like me,” said Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan. “It’s up to people like you to solve it. This is a human tragedy.”

This week, Ramanathan, climate scientist with the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, will speak at Creighton University about the toll climate change will take on human lives and what we can do to fix it. His talk, “Climate Change: Morphing into an Existential Threat,” will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the university’s Mike & Josie Harper Center. It is free and open to the public.

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