Climate286
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Climate Change May Challenge National Security, Classified Report Warns
Sea Level, Water Scarcity, Refugees Might Affect Military, Diplomacy
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Warming Climate is Changing Life on Global Scale
Wide-Scale Analysis Combines Decades of Data From All Continents
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Climate Modelers See Modern Echo in ’30s Dust Bowl
Farming pushed natural drought into disaster–and could do so again
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Climate Change Will Hit Transport Systems Hard, Says Government Panel
National Research Council Calls For Planning Now
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New Yorkers Fear Impacts of Climate Change, And Want to Act
Residents Say Citizens, Business and Government Should Do More
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New Seafloor Cores Show Tight Bond Between Dust And Past Climates
Researchers hope to shed light on proposed manmade climate ‘repairs’
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Voyage To Southern Ocean Aims To Understand Air-Sea Fluxes Of Greenhouse Gases
High winds and big waves are part of the data – and the challenge
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Global Environmental Scorecard Gives U.S. Low Rank
Jan. 23, Davos, Switzerland – A new international ranking of environmental performance puts Switzerland at the top—and the United States 39th, last among the Group of 8 industrialized countries. The ranking, the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, was produced by a team from Yale University and the Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for International Earth Science…
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Climate Change, Seen Through the Eyes of Scientist and Poet
The work of a dozen Columbia Earth Institute scientists is featured in three new books—not all in the usual nonfiction format. In addition to two journalistic works on climate change, there is Time and Materials, by Robert Hass, former poet laureate of the United States. In “State of the Planet”–written for the fiftieth anniversary of…