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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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Geologist Mike Kaplan Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
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- Wednesday, June 17, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Where: Online Event Description: Climate LIVE K12: The National Wildlife Federation’s Youth-focused Climate Solutions in Action Climate LIVE K12 is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents. About this Event Target Audience: MS, HS, Undergrad, Teachers The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has two climate education programs based in […]
- Wednesday, June 10, 2026 8:00 AM – Thu , June 11, 2026 5:00 PM Where: The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027 Description: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School are hosting the second Attribution Science and Climate Law Conference to be held on June 10-11, 2026 at Columbia […]
- 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 […]
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- 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.
I have often wondered how AI can be unbiased when its LLM are based on game play, as games are…