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Columbia Climate School Experts on What Gives Them Hope in 2026
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Upcoming Events
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Where: Online Event Description: Climate LIVE K12: When Waters Rise: How Flash Flood Preparedness Strengthens Communities Climate LIVE K12 is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents. About this Event In this session, we’ll examine the devastating Texas floods of July 2025, which claimed the lives of […]
- Monday, January 12, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Kelly McKeon. Paleostorm frequency recorded in an Aleutian Island fjord Sedimentary paleostorm records are important tools for the describing the relationship between storm variability and climate but have been primarily developed in tropical settings. In this study, we reconstruct storm […]
- Monday, January 12, 2026 9:00 AM – Tue , January 13, 2026 5:00 PM Where: Teachers College Columbia University, 525 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: LEAP’s Winter 2026 Momentum Bootcamp is a hands-on event designed to foster convergence of climate science and data science; vertically integrate research and education; and forge a LEAP research and learning community […]
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Media Highlights
- “The last German government basically fell because they were seen to be instituting a ban on gas,” said Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School. The current government is attempting to rollback the legislation.
- Still, myths about renewable energy are commonplace, says Andy Fitch, an attorney at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law who coauthored a report rebutting dozens of misconceptions….
- Joerg Schaefer, a climate geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who led the project along with Briner, compared it to a high-stakes medical exam….