By Zane Martin Last week hundreds of scientists from around the world attended the Workshop on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictability of Extreme Weather and Climate online and at Columbia University’s bucolic Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Organized by Columbia’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate, in conjunction with the WWRP/WCRP Sub-seasonal to […]
Category: Climate Change
Sustainable Development and Collaborative Governance in NYC
On Thursday November 17, 2016 the Conference on Sustainable Development and Collaborative Governance took place at Laguardia Community College. Sponsored by Governor Cuomo, the conference presented many different concepts on how New York State as a whole and more specifically New York City can reap the benefits of becoming leaders in sustainability and resilience. The […]
Climate Risk and National Security: People not Polar Bears
On Thursday, September 22nd, the Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate hosted its biggest seminar to date. To an audience of over 100 people, Dr. David Titley presented Climate Risk and National Security: People not Polar Bears. Titley, a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy who is now a Professor of Practice in Meteorology […]
First Extremes Workshop: Mission Accomplished
Our workshop, Extreme Weather and Climate: Hazards, Impacts, Actions, happened yesterday. For me, it went by in a blur. A little like attending your own wedding, you’re so caught up in it that you can’t quite tell how you’d react to it if you weren’t. But maybe that feeling of being overwhelmed was partly due to the content. […]
Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
I’m a co-author on a paper that appeared last week in Nature Geoscience entitled “Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity”. This paper describes a “Grand Challenge”, one of several activities with that label, all begun in the last couple of years under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). For about another three weeks, the paper is freely […]
Kickoff event video now online
On February 23 we formally launched the Initiative with an event in the Columbia World Leaders Forum series. After some introductory remarks by Executive VP for Research Michael Purdy, and then some by me, the main attraction was a panel discussion. The panel covered lessons learned in New York City from Sandy about how to prepare for […]