Past Events
January 13, 2009
In early December 2008, the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference took place in Pozna?, Poland. The conference ended with an agreement to shift into full negotiating mode in 2009 in order to draft an international response to climate change, to be agreed upon at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. Wondering what the Pozna? (and Copenhagen) conference’s implications on future domestic and international energy policy will be? Come hear energy and climate policy experts from the greater Boston area discuss their views.
January 13, 2009
Speaker: Edgar Blanco, Research Associate, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. In this presentation we will introduce the key challenges in determining the carbon footprint of supply chains. We will discuss how public-private partnerships could be used to overcome some of these challenges. We will use the EPA Smartway Program as an example of aligning multiple incentives to achieve transparency and collaboration within the supply chain. This session is part of the Issues in Technology and Policy 2009 IAP Seminar Series
January 09, 2009
Join the Massachusetts Sierra Club and the MIT Recycling Working Group of Support Staff Issues for their monthly Energy Movie Nights. "True Cost of Food" is an animation about the hidden cost of modern day food production that is anything but cheap. "King Corn" is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Two best friends from college on the east coast move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from.
January 09, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP, plc. Abstract: Social, economic, and technical factors conspire to make it possible, if not probable, that atmospheric GHG concentrations will rise to imprudent levels. What steps should we be taking now to be prepared should the most dire of predicted climate change impacts come to pass? This is a Special Seminar in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
January 08, 2009
MIT Independent Activities Period - This session will cover contemporary climate science, including how we use GCMs, feedbacks, some debunking of popular climate myths, and the current state of the art of climate prediction. "Intro to Climate Science" is a two session series of presentations to cover the fundamentals of climate science: one presentation covering the past and the other the present (and into the future). Each talk is designed to stand alone. These activities are organized and presented by graduate students affiliated with the Global Change Program.
January 06, 2009
MIT Independent Activities Period - "Intro to Climate Science" is a two session series of presentations to cover the fundamentals of climate science: one presentation covering the past and the other the present (and into the future). Session I will cover paleoclimates, variations in the climate over longer time periods (interannual and longer), and the history and development of climate science. Each talk is designed to stand alone. Session I is led by Rebecca Walsh Dell.