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University of Montana Professor and Nobel Winner, Dr. Steve Running In Discovery Channel Program With Tom Brokaw

University of Montana climate change expert Steve Running will appear in a new Discovery Channel program titled “Global Warming: The New Challenge, With Tom Brokaw,” which is set to air Wednesday, March 18.

The program will run from 8 to 9 p.m. on most Missoula cable and satellite dish networks. On Bresnan Communications, it is scheduled from 8 to 9 p.m. on HD channel 755 and from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. on channel 55. (Listings in your area are available at http://www.zap2it.com.)

Running, UM’s Regents Professor of Ecology, directs the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group in the College of Forestry and Conservation, which has designed software for NASA environmental satellites. He also helped pen the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which earned the authors a Nobel Peace Prize that they share with former Vice President Al Gore.

The program explores some of the most promising scientific, technological and economic concepts that could potentially reverse the Earth’s warming. Running was interviewed for the show in October at spectacular locations in Yellowstone National Park.

“One day we walked three miles up to a ridge at 9,300 feet,” Running said. “One possible theme is how warming helps mountain pine beetles that in turn kill whitebark pine trees, which provide critical grizzly bear habitat. But we covered a lot of topics, and I’m not sure what they will use.”

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