IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 16, 2019) — Iowa’s leading climate scientists will release the Iowa Climate Statement 2019: Dangerous Heat Events Will Be More Frequent and Severe at two press availabilities. The lead authors will describe the sobering impact of projected hotter heat-waves and many more hot days in Iowa and the need to better prepared people, pets and livestock.
10AM
Wednesday, September 18
State Capitol
Room 22
2PM
Wednesday, September 18
Cedar Rapids Public Library
450 5th Avenue SE
Conference Room — Second Floor
Des Moines: David Courard-Hauri, Chair of Environmental Science and Sustainability, Drake University and Peter Levi, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability Drake University.
Cedar Rapids: Jerry Schnoor, Co-director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and Peter S. Thorne, Professor and Head, Occupational & Environmental Health, Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, College of Public Health, University of Iowa.