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Climate Risks

Climate Risks

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has produced four comprehensive Assessment Reports since 1990 detailing the science behind climate change, the impacts, ways to mitigate our radical forcing of the climate system, and ways to adapt to the clear, present, and intensifying dangers that this crisis engenders.  The IPCC has also produced some extremely […]

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(Hot) Summer Reading

(Hot) Summer Reading

I wanted to flag two new books to you and a review of them.  The first is The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen and the second is The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Eleventh-Hour Fight to Save the Earth […]

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"You Don't Need a Weatherman …

… to know which way the wind blows.”* There’s a pretty compelling story in the Old Gray Lady today:  Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming.  TV weather people, it turns out, seem to be having a hard time with the science of climate change.  The article cites a study just out from George Mason University’s Center […]

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