Cowboys and spacemen?

Arboretum to host talk on global warming | CITIZEN-TIMES.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

BENT CREEK – George Hawkins, director of the District Department of the Environment in Washington, will discuss the conflicts over global warming in a talk 9:30-11 a.m. Nov. 15 at the North Carolina Arboretum.

Hawkins’ lecture is sponsored by the arboretum and the French Broad River Garden Club Foundation.

Limited to 140 people, this free 90-minute lecture on “Cowboys and Spacemen, Global Warming and a Theory of Almost Everything” will explore how two perspectives on global warming are in conflict but each make sense based on a differing set of assumptions – exemplified by cowboys and spacemen.