Science
Cornell Prof. Mitigates Extreme Urban Heat Island Effect With Trees
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Prof. Daniel Katz, integrative plant science, has conducted extensive research on how to mitigate extreme heat in urban environments with trees.
Columns
SCHECHTER | The Bottom Tier
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Last week, I sweated through my bedsheets for five nights in a row. Upstate New York was suffering through record heat and, like most of you, my dorm room has no air conditioning. A decision that probably made sense at the time when it rarely ever got hot enough to need it. Until, that is, the era of climate change.
My sleepless nights, coupled with what I’m learning in GOVT 2294: Politics of Climate Change led me to think not about my own discomfort, but about how hard an anthropogenically warmed world will be for people in underdeveloped regions, poverty-stricken areas, my children, their children and the generation after them who won’t be able to survive in Earth’s natural climate.
North Campus
A Rude Awakening: North Campus Residents Shiver as Broken Heaters Abound
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On Monday night, as students returned to their campus dorm rooms and the temperature continued to shiver around the single digits, several students reported broken radiators and insufficient heating on North Campus.
weather
Cornell Climate Specialists Weigh In On High Temperatures at Start of Semester
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The Sun asked several Cornell professors in climate science and facilities staff about how the current heat in Ithaca stacks up, and what the administration plans to do about it.