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A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere—and Warms Earth Below
Researchers have solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: how rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.
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- Monday, May 18, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Kaleb Wagner. Extensive Eurasian Ice Sheets from ~2.4 million years ago Reconstructing Northern Hemisphere ice sheets is fundamental to resolving the coupled evolution of Quaternary sea level and climate. Yet, terrestrial records of Europe’s earliest glaciations are fragmentary and […]
- Wednesday, May 13, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Where: Online Event Description: Climate LIVE K12: The Heart of Climate Justice: A Just Transition Toward Collective Care Climate LIVE K12 is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents. About this Event Target Audience: HS, Undergrad, Teachers, Public Join us for this session that explores how the pursuit […]
- Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:00 AM – 1:00 PM Where: Monell Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Dr Men-Andrin Meier. Towards Earthquake Sequence Predictability with Data-Driven Faulting Inference Despite vast progress across virtually all domains of earthquake seismology, we have not been able to substantially improve levels of earthquake predictability in the past decades. While existing […]
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The more accurate measurements of coastal sea level change are recorded in the Permanent Service For Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)…
Thank you to Columbia University for putting in the work to research the real effects of congestion pricing — beyond…
Media Highlights
- The first is NOAA’s consensus El Niño probability, produced jointly with Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society. That figure represents the chance that El Niño conditions (Niño-3.4 index at or above +0.5°C) […]
- To talk more about how to prepare for hurricanes and severe weather is Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness Jeffrey Schlegelmilch….
- Article features the work of Lamont geologists Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen.
An Asian quote I heard many years ago: “Nothing under heaven is as pliable as water, yet when amassed, nothing…