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What Past Warming Events Can Tell Us About Current Climate Change

A handful of researchers will be heading to Wyoming to study global warming events.

As part of a five-year project called the Green River Eocene Earth Observatory, they’ll be trying to figure out how earlier warming events impacted the planet and the environment.

NAU Geologist Michael Smith is one of those researchers heading east, and he joined The Show to talk about their research.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.