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MIT News | Nov 17, 2016
Tata Center graduate fellow Arun Singh shares energy-economic modeling research at UN Climate Change Conference
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MIT News | Nov 15, 2016
Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate
Two miles thick and a continent wide, piles of snow have been accumulating across the world’s polar regions over millennia. After cycles of melting and freezing, compressing and spreading under their own weight, packed snow formed magnificent glaciers. These majestic, yet powerful, bodies of ice...
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The Verge | Nov 14, 2016
Sea levels are rising, but he’s trying to bring coal back
Trump’s presidency could mean a resurgence of coal, a hollowing out of climate policy, and a shift away from clean energy innovation. MIT Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor Kerry Emanuel warns that the consequences could include major negative health effects; increased food and water...
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MIT News | Oct 20, 2016
MIT’s vice president for research discusses the challenges ahead for MIT and the world
At this time last year, President L. Rafael Reif announced the Institute’s five-year plan for responding to the risks posed by climate change. Maria Zuber, vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, has been coordinating MIT’s climate action efforts since the plan...
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Washington Post | Oct 14, 2016
Overreliance on negative emissions as solution could prevent global climate stabilization
While noting that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be combined with biomass to produce negative net emissions, MIT Energy Initiative/Joint Program Senior Research Engineer and CCS expert Howard Herzog argues that “...
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Nature | Oct 07, 2016
Two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is harnessing science and technology to rebuild its economy
In 2017, after earning his PhD, MIT Joint Program-affiliated graduate student Jimmy Gasore aims to return to Rwanda to continue work on the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) climate observatory that he helped establish.
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MIT News | Sep 21, 2016
In open letter, 375 National Academy of Sciences members warn against opting out of Paris Agreement.
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Wall Street Journal | Sep 16, 2016
WSJ Energy Expert: attention centered around carbon pricing is distracting from other needed energy actions.
The author cites research by the Joint Program’s Valerie Karplus and Jesse Jenkins that finds the “binding constraints” of politics set carbon prices far lower than the true social cost of carbon.
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New York Times | Sep 08, 2016
To reduce U.S. economic impacts, EAPS Prof. Kerry Emanuel recommends overhauling the nation’s flood insurance system
Kerry A. Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the evidence suggested climate change would cause the strongest storms to grow even stronger, and to be more frequent. Unresolved questions surround the effect of warming on the weaker storms, but even those...
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New York Times | Aug 29, 2016
California will extend its landmark climate change legislation to 2030, solidifying the state’s role as a leader in the effort to curb emissions.
John Sterman, a professor and climate policy expert at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said California’s move sent an unambiguous message that major political forces support such action. “It says, We’re committed to this task,” he said. “We’re not going back.”
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