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- Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, an associate research scientist at the Columbia Climate School, has said the tropical Pacific is already showing early warning signs, with subsurface ocean temperatures across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific running […]
- “Manhattan sits on schist and granite, so you can defend it at a district scale, connecting the perimeter to higher ground,” says Kate Orff, the MacArthur-winning founder of the landscape-architecture firm SCAPE. “Red Hook has […]
- Daniel Bader, a senior staff associate at Columbia’s Climate School, tells me that this past winter, when a prolonged cold snap killed at least 29 people, was indeed tough. Pointing to NOAA data, he explains that there […]
No, the rapidity of the carbon dioxide increase is unprecedented. And the natural cycle takes far, far more time. Note…