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Columbia University school that includes Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and publishes the State of the Planet outlet where the study summary originated.
Known aliases
- Climate School
- Columbia Climate School
- Columbia University Climate School
- Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Current stories
Columbia researchers found aerosol pollution rose about 33% across 46 cities after U.S. embassies stopped publishing air-quality readings in 2025. The result is evidence that public monitoring data helps hold pollution down, though the published summary does not say whose behavior changed.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence40
Glacier Loss Day fell on June 29 in Switzerland, three days later than the 2022 record, after one of the five thinnest central-Alpine snowpacks in three decades. The date fixes timing; the season's total ice loss is a separate measurement.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives45
- Confidence50
Two years of hourly air samples downwind of Manhattan put the region's methane loss at 1.7% of all gas delivered, worth nearly $300 million at retail prices, and most plumes carried the chemical mark of incomplete combustion.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives58
- Confidence52
A NASA Goddard team compared the 1980s with 2015 to 2024 and found extreme heat seasons growing at both ends, later in the western United States and earlier in western Europe, on schedules no summer calendar tracks.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives40
- Confidence62
A Geophysical Research Letters study finds the average eastern weather station logging more extreme rain days even as distinct events thin out. The difference is spatial correlation.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives58
- Confidence44