State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

Author: Adam Sobel2

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Adam Sobel is a Professor at Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He studies the dynamics of weather and climate, with an emphasis on extreme weather events, and he is Director of Columbia’s Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate. His book on Hurricane Sandy, Storm Surge, was published in 2014. Visit website »
  • We Don’t Know All About Hurricanes–But We Know Enough to Act

    We Don’t Know All About Hurricanes–But We Know Enough to Act

    Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political leaders and the mainstream media, the renewed attention is profoundly welcome.

  • We Don’t Know All About Hurricanes–But We Know Enough to Act

    We Don’t Know All About Hurricanes–But We Know Enough to Act

    Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political leaders and the mainstream media, the renewed attention is profoundly welcome.