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(Media-Newswire.com) - RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The rain did not dampen the success of the first community climate fair held today ( Nov. 12 ) at the University of California, Riverside. The free parking, free food, and easy access to information about climate change and its impact ensured that by noon more than 450 fairgoers had taken advantage of the games and activities the “Refresh Riverside! A Community Climate Fair” offered.
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The Carbon Dioxide booth appealed most to Jaime Holz of Riverside, who brought her son Joshua, soon to be 12, to the fair.
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Free food at the fair provided consisted of hot dogs, snow cones, and cotton candy to represent the roles that heat, cold and clouds, respectively, play in our lives.
Experts from UCR and NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory answered questions about greenhouse gases and their role in warming the planet, why temperature is predicted to go up in some places and down in others, and how impactful clouds are in raising or lowering the Earth’s temperature.
The NASA scientists demonstrated with videos how scientists track Earth’s climate from space. Along with UCR scientists, they explained how the melting of land ice leads to sea level rise, how extreme weather is connected to global warming, how global climate change affects ecosystems, and how people can live more sustainably.
The community climate fair is being sponsored in large part by NASA; UCR’s Office of the Chancellor, the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and the Department of Earth Sciences; the Riverside Unified School District; and the Moscarello Family Foundation.
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