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- “We have an aging grid infrastructure already in United States, so you can see the impacts of that heat on that infrastructure,” said Kate Guy, senior research fellow at the Columbia University Center on Global […]
- “Climate shocks are becoming more frequent and intense, yet many of the nations facing the highest threats are also heavily indebted, limiting their access to financial markets,” said Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center […]
- LeGrande, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Center for Climate Systems Research. “High nighttime temperatures are absolutely a facet of climate change,” says LeGrande.