This weekend: Learn something

Global Warming experts are coming to San Diego this weekend for Polar Palooza.

Polar-Palooza is a high-energy weekend of events about climate change! In an unprecedented gathering of America's top polar scientists and experts, you'll learn what's really happening at the poles and why it has consequences in San Diego and around the globe. This exciting and informative "scientific road show" will be San Diego's must-see event of the year.

Better than an outdoor music festival that charges $10.00 for water, go and learn about our changing water climate (ba dum dum). On KPBS Biologist Donal Monahan (one of the visiting scientists) shares his own global warming story:

One of my favorite stories in that regard is an 80-year-old granny next door to me. Who has always said 'oh, you're going to Antarctica that's nice dear, did you get to see any penguins?' Now she asks me 'what's going on about global warming.' So there's been a big perception change even just in my local neighborhood. I don't think that the whole debate has ever been that the world isn't getting warmer. That's a fairly simple thing to do, you just put a thermometer out there over years and you see it going up a little bit. No the debate is what's causing it.