Past Events
July 24, 2008
Speaker Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg, Germany, will present in the Parsons Lab Hydrology Seminar Series.
June 09, 2008
MIT's School of Architecture and Planning and the Boston Society of Architects present a symposium on Energy & Mobility in the Green City, gathering leading urbanists to frame the issues and opportunities facing the modern city in a period of global climate change and resource depletion. The goal is to establish a design and policy agenda for Boston and the New England region that benefits from best practices elsewhere and sets new standards for ensuring the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the city in a global economy.
May 03, 2008
Ongoing tours between 12pm and 4pm as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Meet at the MIT Museum.
May 02, 2008
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate at the University of California San Diego, presents the 2008 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture. Prof. Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest climate data, models, and observations which together demonstrate how CO2 is but one piece of a complex puzzle. A video of the presentation is available on MIT World.
May 01, 2008
Speaker: Michael Greenstone, Professor of Economics, MIT. Climate change affects us all, but an often overlooked aspect is its impact on mortality rates. A rational climate policy requires estimates of the costs that it will impose. In this lecture, Michael Greenstone will examine estimates on the impact of climate change on mortality in the US and India. He will also present estimates of the costs of the adaptations that people will undertake to protect themselves against the health risks posed by climate change.
April 11, 2008
Speakers: Justin Anderson, Daniel Enderton. Between Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and (UK) Channel 4's 'Global Warming Swindle', climate change has been in the media a lot lately and at times with contradictory perspectives. So what is the underlying science? This discussion will investigate some of the issues brought up in these movies and will challenge commonly held notions with a focus on better understanding of the science. This event is part of the MIT Energy Club Discussion Series.