The Record of January 24, 2008 Foretold The Establishing Of a COLUMBIA CLIMATE CENTER AT THE EARTH INSTITUTE At Columbia University.

Climate research has a long history at Columbia University - though it was dispersed under many different disciplines. A main ingredient in all of this is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory that was established in the post World War II era when knowledge of earth and seas showed of highly practical value. It was here rather then MIT, that action was started. In later years, Columbia snitched Jeffrey Sachs, who had his eyes on the UN, from Harvard, and Columbia’s Earth Institute became main policy guide for the previous UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

James (JIM) Hansen, Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is affiliated with Columbia University, Manager of Planetary and Climate programs at GISS, was instrumental in bringing out information about the human caused Green House Gasses effect on climate - even though that he had to break US Administration’s efforts to keep this information from becoming public.

Jim Hansen, Seismologists Meredith Nettles and Goran Ekstrom, Climatologists Mark Cane and Stephen Zebiak, are among more then a dozen Columbia scientists that were among the IPCCC team that was awarded the 20007 Nobel Prize together with Al Gore - the terrific Publicity Face of That “Inconvenient Truth.”

Now, in order to put its act together, Columbia is organizing the Climate Center in an attempt to cement its leadership on the topic of Climate Change - the science, the technology/economics/politics, the social problems - just all of it.