http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:16 +0000 EICES Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37381 When you travel northbound on Alaska’s famous Dalton Highway heading toward the Arctic Sea, the northern edge of the world, you carry a radio to communicate with the enormous rigs that roar along the road, the giant trucks made famous by the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers. Radio messages between truckers and non-truckers are simple and polite. They let each other know when it’s safe to pass, if a wide load is coming your way, or if the conditions ahead are dangerous or treacherous – snow drifts, slush flows, avalanches, washouts and the like.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/400-ppm-world-part-2-rising-seas-come-with-rising-co2/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/400-ppm-world-part-2-rising-seas-come-with-rising-co2/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:49:23 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37288 Every indication is that thermal expansion will not dominate rates of sea-level rise in the future. As Earth’s climate marches toward equilibration with present-day CO2 levels, the climate will continue to warm. And this warming threatens the stability of a potentially much, much larger source for sea-level rise -- the world’s remaining ice sheets.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/400-ppm-world-part-2-rising-seas-come-with-rising-co2/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:32:21 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37224 Why should society care that CO2 is now as high as 400 ppm? The reasons are multiple, but all trace back to the relationship between CO2 and temperature. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/feed/ 0 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/2013/04/01/greenhouse-gases-like-steroids-for-extreme-weather/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/greenhouse-gases-like-steroids-for-extreme-weather/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:08:20 +0000 Cassie Xu http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35372 The fourth seminar in the Earth Institute’s Sustainable Development Seminar Series, "Ch Ch Ch Changes – recent trends in temperature extremes and hydroclimate," brought together experts in the fields of climate change and hydrology to discuss emerging trends in global weather events.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/greenhouse-gases-like-steroids-for-extreme-weather/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:14:51 +0000 Melika Edquist http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35235 A new two-year climate change initiative, led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society aims to help farmers in Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Bangladesh reduce their vulnerability to climate risks.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:46:10 +0000 Kavita Jain-Cocks http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35225 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/27/upcoming-scientific-fieldwork-a-guide/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/27/upcoming-scientific-fieldwork-a-guide/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:37:46 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34499 Earth Institute research expeditions investigating the dynamics of the planet on all levels take place on every continent and every ocean. Most projects originate with our main research center, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and are often run in collaboration with other institutions. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/27/upcoming-scientific-fieldwork-a-guide/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/15/extreme-weather-adds-up-to-troubling-future/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/15/extreme-weather-adds-up-to-troubling-future/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:32:41 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34108 Extreme weather and climate-related events already have cost the United States billions of dollars. A recent symposium focused on what we know about the causes and how changing climate affects agriculture, water supplies, wildlife and our economy.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/15/extreme-weather-adds-up-to-troubling-future/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/23/rosarios-farm-rising-tides-shrimp-from-the-forest/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/23/rosarios-farm-rising-tides-shrimp-from-the-forest/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:46:27 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33591 Rosario Costa-Cabral and her brothers harvest hundreds of fruits, oils and wood products from the stream-laced forest of the Amazon River delta. But the climate here is changing: Tides rise higher, and seasonal floods are growing worse.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/23/rosarios-farm-rising-tides-shrimp-from-the-forest/feed/ 0