“There is no point in doing the research if no one is going to listen to the results,” said Allison Jacobel (second from left), a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “I think it's our duty as global citizens,” said Etienne Dunn-Sigouin (third from left), also of Columbia, who studies atmospheric dynamics. “If we all go around in the same direction [as we are now] I think the prospects are pretty dire.” Also with them were Yoni, far left, and Catherine Pomposi, far right.

Emily Gertz