{"id":36608,"date":"2010-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/06\/02\/really-bad-weather-the-focus-of-friday-durham-lecture\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:36:17","slug":"really-bad-weather-the-focus-of-friday-durham-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/06\/02\/really-bad-weather-the-focus-of-friday-durham-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Really bad weather the focus of Friday Durham lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>How did climate almost completely destroy humanity 73,000 years ago?  <\/p>\n<p>How does weather influence something as horrible as global cocaine production?  <\/p>\n<p>What kinds of weather are we just now discovering? <\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Thunderstorm610.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:7pt;line-height:150%\">Arizona State professor Randy Cerveny will discuss some of the worst weather in history during a Friday seminar at UNMC.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>On Friday, UNMC and the Durham Museum will offer medical center employees an exclusive opportunity to hear Randy Cerveny discuss strange weather events based on his newest book, &#8220;Weather&#8217;s Greatest Mysteries Solved!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Cerveny &#8212; a professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University &#8212; will start his presentation at noon in the Sorrell Center, Room 2010. <\/p>\n<p>The entertaining presentation will cover topics stretching from the catastrophic weather that brought an end to the dinosaurs to a strange project involving the weather of the next 10,000 years and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>The lecture is offered through the Time Travelers partnership, which provides free museum admission for medical center employees, students and their immediate family with valid identification. 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