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Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 28, 2010 — I awoke with a start, as the village radio blared out its tinny opening anthem before the sun breached the horizon. The nearest loudspeaker is mounted on the cement power pole on the street directly beside our house, and its sound quality, quite frankly, sucks. Even if I could [...]
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Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 25, 2010, — I don’t think we are having the right discussion about climate change. I didn’t want to go there, but here I go — “global warming”. There, I said it.
Can there be a more divisive political issue than this? It’s right up there with Obama-care, deep-water drilling, baby seal clubbing, gay [...]
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Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 11, 2010 — I have never blogged before, nor do I read blogs with any regularity. Lori approached me about writing an Adventures in Climate Change blog, to convey to people what it is like to be a field research scientist in dendrochronology (tree ring research) in Southeast Asia. I told her [...]
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Meet Brendan Buckley 
Doherty Associate Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Formerly a lover of the colder temperatures of the Arctic, Brendan has somehow found his life's work in the tropics. Through his Asian tree-ring record spanning more than 700 years, he is able to study past climate variability and the societal reactions to these changes. As our planet begins to warm and the climate becomes more volatile understanding the past is critical for understanding the future.
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