Press releases

Sep

2015

A Wet Winter Won’t Save California, Chris Field in the NYT Opinion pages

By Carnegie HQ

"Two physical realities virtually ensure that Californians will still face drought, regardless of how this El Niño unfolds," write Department of Global Ecology Director Chris Field and Stanford's ...

Sep

2015

Ken Caldeira's Antarctic melting research in The New Yorker

By Carnegie HQ

"It’s true that right now our fossil-fuel resources remain vast; but it’s also true that, if we keep burning through them at current rates, they’ll be gone in less time than it took for the Roman ...

Sep

2015

Washington Post: Scientists confirm there’s enough fossil fuel on Earth to entirely melt Antarctica

By Carnegie HQ

“The legacy of what we’re doing over the next decades and the next centuries is really going to have a dramatic influence on this planet for many tens of thousands of years,” Ken Caldeira tells The ...

Sep

2015

NYT: Study Predicts Antarctica Ice Melt if All Fossil Fuels Are Burned

By Carnegie HQ

“This is humanity as a geologic force,” Ken Caldeira tells the New York Times. “We’re not a subtle influence on the climate system – we are really hitting it with a hammer.” More

Sep

2015

Burning remaining fossil fuel could cause 60-meter sea level rise

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New work from an international team including Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira demonstrates that the planet’s remaining fossil fuel resources would be sufficient to melt nearly all of ...

Sep

2015

The Guardian covers Greg Asner's work assessing condition of California's forests

By Carnegie HQ

“It’s like going in and getting a blood test, and the doctor saying you’re OK or you’re not,” Greg Asner tells The Guardian of his Carnegie Airborne Observatory team's monitoring of drought-stricken ...

Aug

2015

Washington Post covers climate change and home heating and cooling study from Caldeira and Petri

By Carnegie HQ

Climate change could give San Francisco the climate index of San Diego and New York City the climate index of Oklahoma City, according to new research from Ken Caldeira and high school intern Yana ...

Aug

2015

End-of-century Manhattan climate index to resemble Oklahoma City today

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions will alter the way that Americans heat and cool their homes. By the end of this century, the number of days each year that heating ...

Aug

2015

Ken Caldeira's work on the deep-ocean impact of CO2 emissions covered by The Guardian

By Carnegie HQ

Stop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 'technofix', scientists warn More

Aug

2015

Greenhouse gases’ millennia-long ocean legacy

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Continuing current carbon dioxide (CO2) emission trends throughout this century and beyond would leave a legacy of heat and acidity in the deep ocean. These changes would linger even ...

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