Climate advisor marks one year since NYC's orange skies - Spectrum News NY1
Climate advisor marks one year since NYC's orange skies
This weekend marks one year since the city skyline turned orange, as smoke from Canadian wildfires made its way down the east coast.
Now, climate scientists are warning this could happen again, and city agencies are working together to protect New Yorkers from future climate emergencies.
NY1 anchors Rocco Vertuccio and Shannan Ferry spoke with Daniel Zarrilli, special advisor for Climate and Sustainability at Columbia University, who served as the mayor’s chief climate policy advisor, about steps the city is taking. Zarrilli also reacted to the decision to suspend congestion pricing.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.