Global Warming35
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Curbing Coal Emissions Alone Might Avert Climate Danger, Say Researchers
Oil and Gas Seen to Have Lesser Effect
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Top Science Award Goes To Climate Researcher Wallace Broecker
Balzan Prize Honors Key Insights Into Changes in Oceans, Atmosphere
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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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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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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…
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Earth Institute Colleagues Share in the Nobel Peace Prize
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) marks a watershed moment. It signals that people across the world and at all levels of society are recognizing that ongoing climate change is not only a long-term threat to the global environment, but also an…
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Climate Swings Have Brought Great CO2 Pulses Up From the Deep Sea
A study released on May 11, 2007 provides some of the first solid evidence that warming-induced changes in ocean circulation at the end of the last Ice Age caused vast quantities of ancient carbon dioxide to belch from the deep sea into the atmosphere. Scientists believe the carbon dioxide (CO2) releases helped propel the world…
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New Research Analyzes Countries at Greatest Risk from Climate Change Impacts
Study looks at vulnerability of populations in low elevation coastal zones
