Comment on proposed amendment to the Fifth National Climate Assessment
The proposed amendment should be withdrawn in its entirety…. It does not provide a scientifically sound, adequately documented, or procedurally appropriate b...
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Climate extension could unlock the higher education sector as a catalyst of societal climate action
With a land-grant-style and land-grant-scale investment in climate extension, we could really unlock the role of higher education as a catalyst of societal c...
Coastal climate researchers comment on draft US Army Corps New York/New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Study
Ten researchers associated with the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub submitted comments to the US Army Corps on the NY & NJ Harbor & Tributar...
Work with public higher ed to advance a green, just recovery
We are facing at least three overlapping and intersecting crises, operating on different timescales: the four-hundred year crisis of racist violence in Ameri...
Sea-level rise will likely render atolls uninhabitable in the lifetime of the Marshall Islands’ youth – but not in the next two decades
The threat of sea-level rise does not just come from the permanent encroachment of the ocean upon the land. It comes – and sooner – from the way in which a h...
It may take decades to determine how high sea level will rise
Our new study links a framework for global and local sea-level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which climate change can affect t...
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140: A review
In my review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, I argue that fiction can play a critical role in inspiring creative rethinks of climate adaptation.
Coasts in Times of Sea-Level Rise (video)
I presented an talk on past, present, and future sea-level rise and climate risk to the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences in October.
Global sea-level change over the Common Era
I and my collaborators at Rutgers, Tufts, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, York, Woods Hole, and Harvard have published a new paper, to app...
The Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity (a technical note)
Jon Buzan, Matt Huber and I authored an article in the June 7, 2015, New York Times that looks at the recent heat wave in India – one of the most deadly in t...