In her book, Dr. Otto, the acting director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor in the Global Climate Science Programme, applies attribution science to recent significant weather events – with the narrative centered upon Hurricane Harvey – to determine if anthropogenic elements can be demonstrated in their causes.
Back in July of 2014, The University of Chicago Press published Mark W. Person’s new English translation of Alexander von Humboldt’s famous collection of essays titled Ansichten der Natur (Views of Nature). This work, one of von Humboldt’s most influential – as well as reportedly his own personal favorite – has not seen a new English translation, […]