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The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication ( YPCCC) is a research center within the Yale School of the Environment that conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at the global, national, and local scales. It grew out of a conference held in Aspen, Colorado, in 2005.
Bob Henson, a meteorologist and climate writer for Yale Climate Connections, said that although he was not surprised that records have been broken, the spikes in temperatures during the last two ...
Steven Elliot Koonin (born December 12, 1951) [1] is an American theoretical physicist and former director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. He is also a professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. [2] From 2004 to 2009, Koonin was employed by BP as the oil ...
A Remarkable Year for Earth's Climate. 2021 was consistent with the long-term human-caused global warming trend of about 0.2 °C (0.36 °F) per decade. From India to England, Russia, China, New Zealand, the U.S., Indonesia, Uganda, Germany, ... extreme precipitation and flooding over the span of just a few months.
The geography of Death Valley leads to many days where temperatures can vault within several degrees of 130 degrees, as they did in July, said meteorologist Bob Henson of Yale Climate Connections.
William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. [3]
Osha Gray Davidson is an author, free-lance writer, photographer and podcaster. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up in Iowa, studying at the University of Iowa. Davidson is an author of six books of non-fiction and more than a hundred articles on a range of topics. He is currently a contributing writer at Yale Climate Connections ...
Climate change threatens people with increased flooding, extreme heat, increased food and water scarcity, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. [13] The World Health Organization calls climate change one of the biggest threats to global health in the 21st century. [14]