- Why You're in Denial About DisastersFox Business, 2013-14-03
- A Climate of Collaboration: Environmental scientists urge artists to humanize the stories behind the researchChantal Bilodeau, Theatre Communications Group, 2013-05-01
- Pro-Environment Light Bulb Labeling Turns Off Conservatives, Study FindsNational Geographic, 2013-04-30
- Environmental Labels May Discourage Conservatives from Buying Energy-Efficient ProductsDuke University Fuqua School of Business, 2013-04-30
- ‘Chasing Ice’: Watching History Unfold, and DisappearEarth Institute State of the Planet, 2013-04-26
- How Can Psychologists Help Make Earth Day Every Day?American Psychological Association, 2013-04-19
- Your Brain on Natural HazardsClimate Access, 2013-03-13
- Research Heroes: Elke WeberInDecision Blog, 2013-02-19
- A January Warm Spell Conjures Mixed EmotionsThe Wall Street Journal, 2013-01-14
- Making the Invisible Visible: The Psychology of Energy UseIndiana Living Green, 2013-01-04
- Op-Ed: Game Theory and Public Hearings: A Decision Theorist’s PerspectiveNewCastleNOW, 2012-12-03
- Hyperbolically discount our environmentWeber and Hardisty cited in "Mydigitalfc" Op-Ed, 2012-11-29
- Penn professor simulates next Sandy scenarioMetro, 2012-11-28
- New simulation can help prepare people for hurricane damageThe Daily Pennsylvanian, 2012-11-26
- Sandy's WarningPBS Nova, 2012-11-21
- Matt Sisco Op-Ed: Time to get focused on climate changeNJ Star-Ledger, 2012-11-18
- Ben Orlove on the Brian Lehrer Show: Climate Science and SandyWNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show, 2012-11-15
- Getting Better Prepared for the Next Big StormState of the Planet: Earth Institute Blog, 2012-11-12
- Don’t blame IreneNY Alt News, 2012-11-09
- Hurricane Sandy Hints at Perils of Global CatastropheScientific American, 2012-11-08
- This is a wake-up call – don’t hit the snooze buttonState of the Planet: Earth Institute Blog, 2012-11-06
- Party's Over After SandyWall Street Journal, 2012-11-06
- Crippled NY subways spark infrastructure, climate questionsCNN, 2012-11-03
- Fighting, Unruliness Hinder Hurricane Sandy Recovery In New York, New JerseyHuffington Post, 2012-11-02
- Sandy Just the Latest Example of Climate Change’s Threat to East CoastCRED co-director Ben Orlove speaks to the Voice of Russian, American Edition, 2012-10-31
- Hurricane Sandy: A disaster foretold?PBS's Need to Know, 2012-10-30
- NASA Warned New York About Hurricane Danger Six Years AgoMother Jones, 2012-10-30
- Climate Change Raises Stakes for CoastCNN Opinion, 2012-10-29
- Recycling Helps, but It’s Not All You Can Do for the EnvironmentNew York Times, 2012-10-19
- Scientists, local leaders send letter, urge Romney, Obama to address climate changeNaplesnews, 2012-10-11
- Dire Warnings Issued on Diminishing Arctic IceVoice of America, 2012-09-21
- Arctic sea ice reaches historic low as scientists warn of regional, global impactArctic sea ice reaches historic low as scientists warn of regional, global impact, 2012-09-19
- In Hurricane Forecasts, “Cone of Uncertainty” Is Surrounded by Haze of ConfusionSlate, 2012-08-28
- Major League Baseball Copes With Climate ChangeThe Huffington Post, 2012-08-16
- Why Thinking About Your Death May Prompt You to Save the PlanetTime Magazine, Ecocentric Blog, 2012-07-04 [+]
CRED Principal Investigator Rick Larrick and colleagues as the Duke Fuqua School of Business co-authored the study cited in this post.
- Contemplate Your Own Death, Save the WorldTreehugger, 2012-07-04 [+]
CRED Principal Investigator Rick Larrick and colleagues at the Duke Fuqua School of Business co-authored the study cited in this post.
- CRED Principal Investigator, Carla Roncoli, was featured in Communication, Consultation, CollaborationAmerican Anthropological Association Newsletter, 2012-06-20
- Legacy in Mind: Why We Bother to Save the PlanetThe Huffington Post, 2012-06-19 [+]
CRED Principal Investigator Rick Larrick and colleagues at the Duke Fuqua School of Business co-authored the study cited in this article.
- Largest Weather Index Insurance Payout for Small Scale African Farmers Triggered by Satellite TechnologyOXFAM America, 2012-06-12
- CRED Co-Director Ben Orlove Interviewed on Connection Between Extreme Weather and Global WarmingState of the Planet, 2012-05-15
- Population Researchers Look for Room in AcademeThe Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011-10-30 [+]
Featuring CRED Managing Director Sabine Marx
- Methane, Modern Science and the Dalai LamaState of the Planet, 2011-10-25 [+]
Featuring CRED Co-Director, Elke Weber
- On Climate, Ethics, Cow Burps and the Dalai LamaThe New York Times, 2011-10-21 [+]
Featuring CRED Co-Director, Elke Weber
- Planning for Future DisastersState of the Planet, 2011-09-19 [+]
Written by CRED graduate student Katherine Thompson, and featuring CRED Co-Directors Ben Orlove, Kenneth Broad and CRED researcher Robert Meyer.
- Forecasting Andean rainfall from the influence of El Niño on Pleiades visibilityEarthSky (in Spanish), 2011-08-22 [+]
Featuring CRED Co-Director, Ben Orlove
- Understanding the Mind as the Temperature ClimbsState of the Planet, 2011-06-28 [+]
Profile piece featuring CRED Director David Krantz
- Take Slate's Energy Quiz! Do you know how much energy common household appliances consume?Slate, 2011-04-21 [+]
Featuring CRED postdoc, Shahzeen Attari
- Paradise Parking Lot with Steve BarnettProgressive Radio Network, 2011-04-13 [+]
Paradise Parking Lot with Steve Barnett on PRN featured research co-authored by CRED graduate student Lisa Zaval, with Eric Johnson and Ye Li.
- Some People's Climate Beliefs Shift With WeatherMedical News Today, 2011-04-08
- Some People's Climate Beliefs Shift With WeatherScience Daily, 2011-04-07 [+]
Featuring published research co-authored by CRED graduate student Lisa Zaval, with Eric Johnson and Ye Li
- Some People's Climate Beliefs Shift with the Weather: Study Shows Daily Malleability on a Long-Term QuestionThe Earth Institute, 2011-04-06 [+]
Featuring published research co-authored by CRED graduate student Lisa Zaval, with Eric Johnson and Ye Li
- People's belief in climate change shifts with the weather, study findsClick Green, 2011-04-06 [+]
Featuring published research co-authored by CRED graduate student Lisa Zaval, with Eric Johnson and Ye Li
- The "Snowmageddon Effect": Irrational Beliefs About ClimateAssociation for Psychological Science, 2011-03-08 [+]
Featuring published research co-authored by CRED graduate student Lisa Zaval, with Eric Johnson and Ye Li
- Semenario TiempoEdición Nº793 (page 2), 2011-01-20 [+]
Representatives from IRI (Paul Block, Cathy Vaughn), CRED (Sabine Marx), and Barnard College (Allyza Lustig) conducted a site visit to the Elqui River Basin in Chile. Funded by Earth Institute's Cross-Cutting Initiative, the project seeks to understand how water resource decisions may benefit from incorporation of climate information, specifically at the seasonal and decadal time scales. The January trip was designed to interview local water managers, government agencies, irrigated farmers, research institutes, and academics regarding the degree to which climate information is actively consulted throughout the basin, and the capacity to adopt such practices.
- Semenario TiempoEdición Nº792 (page 16), 2011-01-13 [+]
Representatives from IRI (Paul Block, Cathy Vaughn), CRED (Sabine Marx), and Barnard College (Allyza Lustig) conducted a site visit to the Elqui River Basin in Chile. Funded by Earth Institute's Cross-Cutting Initiative, the project seeks to understand how water resource decisions may benefit from incorporation of climate information, specifically at the seasonal and decadal time scales. The January trip was designed to interview local water managers, government agencies, irrigated farmers, research institutes, and academics regarding the degree to which climate information is actively consulted throughout the basin, and the capacity to adopt such practices.
- How Much Energy Does that Device Use?Climate Central, 2010-09-23 [+]
Press featuring published research by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Cleaner for the Environment, Not for the DishesThe New York Times, 2010-09-18 [+]
CRED Co-Director Elke Weber quoted in NY Times Environment piece
- Science in ActionBBC, 2010-09-03 [+]
Press featuring published research by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari. [Segment from 02:18 to 07:30]
- Stemming the invisible energy flowSimple Climate, 2010-09-01
- Survey: Americans clueless on how best to save energyUSA Today, 2010-08-24 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Watts up? People habitually underestimate their energy consumptionThe Economist, 2010-08-19 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Study Shows People Are Clueless About Energy Savings – Here's What Actually Works.Tech Crunch, 2010-08-18 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Delusions Abound on Energy Savings, Study SaysThe New York Times, 2010-08-18 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Save Your EnergyPocket Science, 2010-08-17 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Misperceived Paths to Energy SavingsThe New York Times Dot Earth Blog, 2010-08-17 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Green machine: Fighting the efficiency fallaciesNew Scientist, 2010-08-17 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Green and CluelessNewsweek, 2010-08-17 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Survey Shows Many Are Clueless On How To Save Energy: People Turn Off Lights in Vain, Ignoring Real EfficienciesThe Earth Institute, 2010-08-16 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Americans' sense of energy savings? Small change.The Daily Climate, 2010-08-16 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Missing the Chance for Big Energy Savings: Focusing on Small Changes, Consumers Set Their Sights LowNational Geographic, 2010-08-01 [+]
Press featuring research published by CRED postdoc and Earth Institute Fellow Shahzeen Attari.
- Adding Punch to Influence Public OpinionThe New York Times, 2010-07-25 [+]
CRED Co-Director Kenny Broad and PI Eric Johnson in collaboration with the Harmony Institute
- Bahamas' 'blue holes' hold wonders and weird scienceUSA Today, 2010-07-21 [+]
Featuring CRED Co-Director Kenny Broad
- Environmental anthropologist sees climate change impacts aheadHawaii 24/7, 2010-06-28 [+]
Featuring CRED Co-Director Kenny Broad.
- CRED Co-Director Elke Weber and CRED PI Howard Kunreuther selected as authors of IPCC 5th Assessment ReportIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2010-06-23 [+]
CRED Co-Director Elke Weber, selected from a pool of over 3,000 nominations, is a Lead Author to the 5th Assessment Report (AR5), Working Group III, for the volume entitled,
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Weber is Lead Author of the second chapter in that volume entitled
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies and will focus on framing issues. CRED PI Howard Kunreuther was selected as Coordinating Lead Author for the same chapter.The scheduled completion dates for AR5 are as follows: Working Group 1- September 2013, Working Group 2- March 2014, Working Group 3- April 2014, Synthesis Report- September 2014. Other Columbia scientists and professors selected to contribute to this report include
Geoffrey Heal (Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School);
Marc Levy (Deputy Director CIESEN, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs);
Patrick Kinney (Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health);
Drew Shindell (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences).
To learn more about the AR5,
click here. To learn more about the IPCC
click here.
- Can Smiley Faces (and a 14-Step Program to Stop Overconsumption) Save the Global Climate?Scientific American, 2010-03-16 [+]
Featuring the Managing Director of CRED, Sabine Marx
- You Say Offset, I Say Tax? Study Suggests Labels and Political Affiliation May Influence PreferencesAssociation for Psychological Science, 2010-01-12 [+]
"Columbia University psychological scientists David J. Hardisty, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber wanted to see how the way in which a concept is framed (that is, how it is labeled) affects our attitude towards it."
- Climate Change: People and CitiesWNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show, 2009-12-14 [+]
Featuring Earth Institute postdoctoral fellow at CRED, Shahzeen Attari
- Tipping Points: CRED co-sponsored TippingPoint event at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Blog, 2009-12-08
- Art, Science & Climate Change (Tipping Point event)Culturebot, 2009-12-08
- Framing Science- Featuring the CRED GuideFraming Science Blog, 2009-11-09
- Will talking change anyone's mind about climate change?The Christian Science Monitor, 2009-11-06
- Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mysteryGrist, 2009-11-05
- Africa Experiments With Climate Insurance-- for $5 a YearThe New York Times, 2009-09-30
- Positive Thinking for a Cooler WorldNew Scientist, 2009-08-19
- How psychology can help the planet stay coolNew Scientist, 2009-08-19
- Cold, Hard GrassConservation Magazine, 2009-07-31
- David Hardisty on his research at CRED- NPR Colombia interviewColombian National Public Radio, 2009-07-31
- When It Comes To Going Green, People Want Smaller Gains Now, Not Bigger Gains LaterScience Daily, 2009-07-29
- Glacier Retreat: Reviewing the Limits of Human Adaptation to Climate ChangeEnvironment, 2009-05-26 [+]
Article by CRED Co-Director Ben Orlove
- It's up to social science to make us act in an environmentally conscious way. But can we trick ourselves into saving ourselves?Seed Magazine, 2009-04-22
- Why Isn’t the Brain Green?The New York Times Magazine, 2009-04-16
- Understanding the Disconnect on Global WarmingAssociation for Psychological Science, 2009-02-20
- The Deep Sleep: Are Americans waking up to global warming?Columbia Magazine, 2008-11-01
- New Yorkers See a Threat in Global WarmingThe New York Times, 2008-03-06
- A Community Tries to Shrink Its FootprintThe New York Times, 2008-01-20
- Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech WorldThe New York Times, 2007-12-04
- American Conscious Waking Up to Climate ChangeNPR, 2007-07-07
- Polar Exploration & Risky DecisionmakingThe Street, 2007-03-06
- Global Warming: It's All In Your HeadCBS News, 2007-02-22
- Climate Change, Insurability, and LiabilityKunreuther, H., & Michel-Kerjan, E. | University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 155(6), 1795-1842., 2007-01-01 [+]
Abstract: This paper focuses on the interaction between uncertainty and insurability in the context of some of the risks associated with climate change. It discusses the evolution of insured losses due to weather-related disasters over the past decade, and the key drivers of the sharp increases in both economic and insured catastrophe losses over the past 20 years. In particular we examine the impact of development in hazard-prone areas and of global warming on the potential for catastrophic losses in the future. In this context we discuss the implications for insurance risk capital and the capacity of the insurance industry to handle large-scale events. A key question that needs to be addressed is the factors that determine the insurability of a risk and the extent of coverage offered by the private sector to provide protection against extreme events where there is significant uncertainty surrounding the probability and consequences of a catastrophic loss. We discuss the concepts of insurability by focusing on coverage for natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. The paper also focuses on the liability issues associated with global climate change, and possible implications for insurers (including D&O), given the difficulty in identifying potential defendants, tracing harm to their actions and apportioning damages among them. The paper concludes by suggesting ways that insurers can help mitigate future damages from global climate change by providing premium reductions and rate credits to companies investing in risk-reducing measures.
Publisher's page
- Alaskans Don't Like Global WarmingThe Frontal Cortex Blog, 2006-10-17
- CRED Co-Director Kenny Broad Chosen as one of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers of the YearNational Geographic, 2006-02-23
- Center for Research on Environmental Decisions LaunchedColumbia News, 2005-05-03
- New NSF-Funded Center for Research on Environmental DecisionsInstitute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University, 2004-11-01
