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Study: Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets Vulnerable to Even Moderate Global Warming

December 16, 2009 ・ Steven Barnes

An additional 2 degrees of global warming could commit the planet to 6 to 9 meters (20 to 30 feet) of long-term sea level rise A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth’s sea level, carried out by…

Going Underground for a Climate Solution

December 14, 2009 ・ Chris Emery

Catherine Peters, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, tours the Homestake Mine in South Dakota, where she plans to test whether the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be stored safely underground. (Photo: Bill Harlan/Sanford Underground Laboratory) Hoping to…

Robert Socolow

PEI Robert Socolow Offers Perspective On Climate Change

December 7, 2009 ・ Chris Emery

Robert Socolow (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski) Name: Robert Socolow Title: Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative and director of the Siebel Energy Grand Challenge. Scholarship: Assessing which technologies and policies might be effective in reducing…

Visualization Lab Helps Make Data Come Alive

November 30, 2009 ・ Kitta MacPherson

Lab plans open house The Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) will host an open house to feature its new Visualization Laboratory from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in 346 Lewis Library. The facility is…

New Climate Targets may not Change Daily Life Much

November 27, 2009 ・ Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Storm Clouds Gather Over Leaked Climate E-Mails

November 24, 2009 ・ Seth Borenstein, Associated Press