Climate167
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Accounting for Volcanoes Using Tools of Economics
Climate scientists teamed up with an econometrics expert to develop an innovative new method for picking out past volcanic eruptions in temperature reconstructions going back millennia and gauging their impact on the climate.
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Fossil Fuel Companies Need to Become Renewable Energy Companies
No one should underestimate the scale of the challenge that confronts humanity. It will require new technologies and changes in infrastructure, organizational capacity, economic incentives and public policy.
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Could Global Warming’s Top Culprit Help Crops?
Study Looks at How Carbon Dioxide Might Cut Effects of Rising Heat
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Climate Change and the Paris Agreement: What’s Next?
“Climate change is an extreme example of what happens when you do not have sustainable development. We will not address climate change unless we change the patterns of production and consumption that drove us to this situation in the first place.”
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World Surf League Teams Up with Columbia to Support Ocean Science
New philanthropy takes an innovative approach
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Moving the Global Economy Toward Sustainability
Using something finite and dumping it into a hole in the ground is less efficient and more costly than a system build on photosynthesis, renewable resources, and reuse of finite resources. In other words, an organization managed according to the principles of sustainability should be able to outcompete the organization sticking to the old, polluting…
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NYC’s Public-Private Partnerships to Fight Climate Change
New York City’s Carbon Challenge is helping to foster public-private partnerships that are crucial in any city’s attempt to combat climate change.
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Almost Home, with Another 7 Million Years of Climate History
Science at sea isn’t easy, but the benefits are huge, writes Sidney Hemming in her final post from a two-month expedition that collected millions of years of climate history in the deep-sea sediment from off southern Africa.
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Create a Climate Game—and You Could Win $10,000
Through the Games for Change Climate Challenge, you can be a climate game-changer.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
