Climate scientist Jason Smerdon is coauthor of Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, a succinct, non-ideological reference for anyone who wants to understand what we know (and don’t) about climate.
“Everything is tech-driven on the West Coast,” said Jeannette Wing, who left Microsoft Research last year to become the director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute. “But the East Coast is more well-rounded. It is about technology, but not just technology for its own sake.”
“The continuing increase in fire is an inevitability in the western United States. It is an inevitability that this trend is going to continue,” said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.