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Truth in Television, anyone? Sanity Slippage: After Beale has

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My colleagues in environmental and ecological sciences are the most prone to despair. They see the trend lines and are deeply worried about sea level rise and species destruction. They also believe that we’ve known these facts for some time, have not solved the problem, and so the proper response for the ethical and responsible scientist is to issue dire warnings in the clearest possible language. I have colleagues who tell me I should sell my bungalow by the ocean because it will someday be underwater and who are grateful that Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus is many feet above sea level. Well, I’m not selling my summer home and I note that Columbia’s new campus is right next to the Hudson River and has been designed for climate resiliency.

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