North Pole Ice

Introducing THE SPEAKER

Tom Day is an experienced public speaker with a broad range of interests.  Widely traveled, he has been to China, India, Russia 3 times, Norway, Zimbabwe, Belize, and Ethiopia. He has spoken at SIRS, Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary clubs from Burlingame to San Jose in person, and from San Diego to Whistler, Canada, via Zoom. He and his wife live in Stevenson Ranch, Los Angeles. <tomday401@gmail.com>



THE SPEECH

Ice at the North Pole describes the current situation up there. The connection between melting northern ice and sea level rise will be approached. Satellite photos from the last 30 years will illustrate this section of the talk.  Other large bodies of ice, Greenland and Antarctica, will be covered briefly.

Mr. Day will draw on his extensive reading on this subject, which includes:
• Climate Wars,  by Gwynne Dyer
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet   by Michael Mann
• The Ice at the End of the World,  by Jon Gertner
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,  by Naomi Klein 

Mr. Day follows "Climate Adam" and Peter Beckwith on YouTube.



AN ANNOUNCEMENT for your newsletter

On YYYY XX we will have a lecture on the recent history of North Pole ice. Tom Day of Santa Clarita CA will cover the "general state of affairs in the Arctic Ocean" and other icy places. In his retirement Mr. Day has studied ice at the South Pole, permafrost in Siberia, and the State of California Sea-Level Rise Guidance update. He's read books on this subject by authors such as Michael Mann, Gwynne Dyer and Naomi Klein. 
 
The talk is written for a general audience (very few graphs).  Presented via Zoom. 
Mr. Day is a retired software engineer with extensive experience in Toastmasters.