While the area continues to see warmer temperatures, increased flooding and rapidly intensifying storms, Tuesday evening’s conference on climate change had an underlying message of hope.
St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor joined Terry Root, senior fellow emerita at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, Dr. Gary Mitchum, professor and associate dean of the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida, and Cara Woods Serra, director of the resiliency for the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council onstage at the Palladium Theater. Max Chesnes, a climate and environment reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, moderated the Spotlight Tampa Bay Community Conversation.
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