Joint Program In the News
In The News
MIT News | Feb 27, 2014
By Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
Water has a lot of say in how Earth’s climate works. And scientists often acknowledge that the uncertainty about climate’s future trajectory comes from a lack of understanding of water. This intellectual challenge filled the better part of February...
Commentary
MIT News | Feb 10, 2014
In climate change, science and policy are inextricably linked—more so than in most contemporary social phenomena. The complexity of understanding earth’s systems generates uncertainty, which feeds into an imperfect policy process that often warps ideal economic instruments...
In The News
MIT News | Feb 05, 2014
Genevieve Wanucha
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate
IAP 2014 was bone-chilling, and thanks to 12.310, An Introduction to Weather Forecasting, 20 new amateur forecasters can tell you why.
Always offered between semesters, 12.310 reveals the principles of fluid...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Feb 03, 2014
By Michael Davidson
It is quite a challenge to pin down an electricity system that has grown 10.8 percent annually over the last decade, doubled power generation in just 7 years and added 80-90 gigawatts (GW) – the equivalent of the United Kingdom’s entire generating capacity –every year...
In The News
MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Jan 27, 2014
The Global Young Academy (GYA) is an international group of two hundred young (up to ten years post PhD) scientists selected based on research excellence and commitment to impact. Through GYA, members are linked to the senior international academy network ...
In The News
MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science | Jan 23, 2014
By Michael Craig, Amanda Giang, Colin Thackray 

What’s the difference between climate change, the Northern spotted owl, and acid rain?
That question is not the beginning of a bad joke. Rather, it was the type of question that lay at the heart of the class ‘Science, Politics, and...
In The News
MIT News | Jan 21, 2014
In many public discussions of climate change, science takes a back seat to political agendas and rhetoric. But 12.340x (Global Warming Science), a new massive open online course from MITx now open for...
In The News
Gaidar Forum | Jan 21, 2014
Sergey Paltsev, assistant director for economic research at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, presented at the 2014 Gaidar Forum entitled "Russia and the World: Sustainable Development."
The expert discussion “Green growth” and sustainable...
In The News
Channel News Asia | Jan 21, 2014
Channel News Asia interviews Michael Davidson on the Business Central show. Michael Davidson is Research Assistant for the China Energy and Climate Project and a doctoral student in the Engineering Systems Division.
...
In The News
The Hill | Jan 06, 2014
By Laura Barron-Lopez
Global warming may be contributing to the "polar vortex" causing frigid temperatures across most of the nation on Monday, according to some climate change researchers.
...