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Link to Article | May 07, 2014
Henry D. Jacoby, codirector emeritus of the Joint Program, talks to Amanda Lang of the CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange about the findings of the Third National Climate Assessment.
Joint Program codirector emeritus Henry Jacoby appeared on CBC's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange to discuss the findings of the Third National Climate Assessment. Jacoby is a...
Commentary
Los Angeles Times | Apr 25, 2014
Global Change researcher Michael Greenstone and coauthors write about the importance of natural experiments" in calculating the costs and benefits of environmental regulations."
Last week, a divided court of appeals upheld what may well be the most important environmental rule in the nation's history: the Environmental Protection Agency's mercury standards. The regulation is expected to prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 130,000 asthma...
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MIT News | Apr 23, 2014
Yesterday, Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, visited MIT to discuss existing collaboration between his country and MIT, as well as to explore the possibility of broadening its scope. Kagame was traveling with Rwandan Ambassador to the United States Mathilde Mukantabana, Rwanda’s Permanent...
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National Geographic Daily News | Apr 09, 2014
John Reilly comments on the fortcoming IPCC report's take on slowing climate change.
Trust in technology: That seems to be the underlying message of a coming report from the world's top panel on climate change.
Scheduled for release on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will point to many possible ways—from burying...
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ClimateWire | Apr 07, 2014
John Reilly says IPCC reports should integrate science, adaptation, and mitigation efforts.
By Stephanie Paige Ogburn
ClimateWire
Every seven years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes three colossal reports about global warming.
The second of that set of three, focusing on impacts and adaptation, was just released, and on its heels have...
Commentary
MIT Technology Review | Apr 03, 2014
John Reilly
Co-director MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
The difficulty of predicting local effects of climate change makes a compelling case for preventing it.
This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major...
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Anadolu Agency | Mar 27, 2014
By Oguzhan Ozsoy
Anadolu Agency
There are currently 14 nuclear power plants in operation with 8 more under construction in China, wind energy is thirds largest energy source. China the largest consumer of coal in the world is attempting to diversify its energy sources to move...
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Oceans at MIT | Mar 24, 2014
By Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
The ocean plays a critical role in climate change, especially in setting the climate's response to increasing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. As excess heat accumulates in various parts of the Earth system, most of that thermal energy...
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MIT News | Mar 05, 2014
Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, recently accepted the 2014 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his “fundamental insights into water mass transformation and deep convection and their implications...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Mar 04, 2014
Michael Davidson
MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project
According to tallies by the National Energy Administration, China added 14 gigawatts (GW) of grid-connected wind power capacity in 2013, now the fifth consecutive year with installs of over 10 GW (here, at a glance, is...