http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/26/chasing-ice-watching-history-unfold-and-disappear/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/26/chasing-ice-watching-history-unfold-and-disappear/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:15:31 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35956 Near the end of “Chasing Ice,” a hunk of glacier the size of lower Manhattan explodes, rolls and crashes into the sea. If that sounds like a spoiler, well, go see the movie and you’ll know you would have known it was coming anyway. And the beauty of the movie is that it will still astound you.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/26/chasing-ice-watching-history-unfold-and-disappear/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/19/planning-for-future-disasters/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/19/planning-for-future-disasters/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:43:06 +0000 Center for Research on Environmental Decisions http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17831 On September 13, the Senate passed a $7 billion disaster aid package that will replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s depleted funds in order to aid several states still reeling in the wake of widespread flooding, wildfires, tornadoes and tropical storms. But cleanup and recovery is only one part of the disaster cycle. Fortunately, Congress [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/19/planning-for-future-disasters/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/16/the-american-climate-gap/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/16/the-american-climate-gap/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 15:32:08 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14703 There’s a growing gap between scientists’ view of climate change and that of the general public, and it has less to do with scientific “illiteracy,” and more to do with the psychology of how people frame their understanding of the world, say the authors of a paper just published in the journal American Psychologist.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/16/the-american-climate-gap/feed/ 3