Baker, 61st U.S. Secretary of State, calls for conservative action on looming climate crisis
May 12, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyJames A. Baker III, the 61st U.S. Secretary of State, presented “A Conservative Approach to Climate Change” to a full audience for PEI’s 2017 Taplin Environmental Lecture.
Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars program co-hosts climate conference for local high schools
May 9, 2017 ・ Levi Golston, Princeton Energy and Climate ScholarPECS and the Princeton Day School hosted the Student Climate Change Conference for 18 local high schools.
Baldwin Wins Student Paper Award from American Meteorological Society’s Board on Environment and Health
February 21, 2017 ・ Sarah M. BinderPEI-STEP fellow, Jane Baldwin, wins AMS Student Paper Award for her work on quantifying the risk of compound heat wave events.
Forecast: a Podcast About Climate Science and Climate Scientists
February 21, 2017 ・ Igor HeifetzPEI Associate faculty member, Gabe Vecchi, recently interviewed for podcast by Nature’s climate science editor.
Climate Change to Alter Global Pattern of Mild Weather
January 19, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly Office of CommunicationsScientists from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have produced the first global analysis of how climate change may affect the frequency and location of mild-weather days.
Giant Middle East Dust Storm Caused by a Changing Climate, Not Human Conflict
January 13, 2017 ・ Matt Soniak for the Office of Engineering CommunicationsResearchers have determined that the massive late-summer 2015 dust storm in the Middle East was caused by a changing climate and was not attributable to the civil war in Syria, as many media outlets reported.
The Fire Through the Smoke: Working for Transparency in Climate Projections
January 4, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsTo help policymakers more confidently prepare for the effects of climate change, a group of climate scientists evaluated the scientific work behind the most recent projections from the IPCC regarding the potential ecological, social, economic and meteorological repercussions of climate change.
Climate Policy Simulator Forces Users to Confront Ethics and Science Behind Policy Choices
December 19, 2016 ・ B. Rose Kelly, Woodrow Wilson SchoolTo explain the interconnectivity of science and value judgments, Princeton University’s Climate Futures Initiative (CFI) has launched a climate policy simulator.
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: The Future of Carbon and Heat Uptake by the Ocean: Seeking Insight From the Ice Ages
May 3, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzHeat uptake by the ocean is slowing the greenhouse gas-driven warming of the atmosphere, and the ocean represents the dominant long-term sink for the carbon dioxide gas deriving from fossil fuel use. However, these beneficial roles of the ocean are…
