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Link to Article | Aug 29, 2014
MIT's Prof. Noelle Selin appeared on CBC's The Exchange with Amanda Lang to discuss the findings of a study recently published in Nature Climate Change. Watch the interview below.
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MIT News | Aug 27, 2014
Study finds big snowstorms will still occur in the Northern Hemisphere following global warming.
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Link to Article | Aug 27, 2014
What is the observational evidence that the ocean has warmed in recent years, and how difficult is it to quantify? Oceans at MIT asks Carl Wunsch about the limits of our knowledge.
Genevieve WanuchaOceans at MIT
Carl Wunsch (MIT PhD ’67), Cecil and Ida Green Professor Emeritus of Physical Oceanography at MIT, has spent an entire career investigating the ocean’s role in climate, from both observational and theoretical angles. Early in his career, he spent many months working...
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Link to Article | Aug 26, 2014
The Atlantic reports on an MIT study that concludes that cost of limiting carbon emissions would pay for itself in human health benefits.
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James HamblinThe Atlantic
The polar ice caps feel remote. The threat of orioles permanently leaving Baltimore for cooler climates might be a little more compelling. But researchers are learning that the most effective way around climate-policy ambivalence is to invoke imminent dangers to human...
News Release
Aug 25, 2014
Study finds that savings from healthier air can make up for some or all of the cost of carbon reduction policies.
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Link to Article | Aug 25, 2014
The Christian Science Monitor writes about an MIT climate change study released Sunday, indicating that the cost of slashing coal-fired carbon emissions would be offset by reduced spending on public health. The EPA-funded study examined climate change policies similar to those proposed by the Obama administration in June.
Jared Gilmour
Christian Science Monitor
President Obama’s controversial plan to phase out coal and slash carbon emissions is an expensive one. But a new study suggests it could be cheaper than...
In The News
Link to Article | Aug 22, 2014
According to MIT researchers, ocean circulation explains why the Arctic feels the effects of global warming much more than the Antarctic.
Genevieve Wanucha
MIT News
Over recent decades, scientists have watched a climate conundrum develop at the opposite ends of Earth: The Arctic has warmed and steadily lost sea ice, whereas Antarctica has cooled in many places and may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better...
In The News
Link to Article | Aug 07, 2014
National Journal || Ben Geman writes about MIT Joint Program researchers' recent analysis of what the world can expect from upcoming climate policy negotiations.
Ben Geman
National Journal
Don't expect too much from the global climate-change accord that's expected to emerge from high-stakes international talks in Paris next year.
A new MIT study concludes that even...
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Link to Article | Aug 06, 2014
The Hill reports on a new Joint Program Report detailing MIT researchers' expectations for 2015 UN climate policy negotiations.
Laura Barron-Lopez
The Hill | Energy & Environment
Negotiations among global leaders in Paris next year meant to mitigate climate change and keep the global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius are likely to fail, according to a new study.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report...
In The News
Link to Article | Aug 02, 2014
In NY Times' The Upshot, Cornell University economics professor Robert H. Frank writes an Op-Ed debunking myths about climate change, featuring MIT's Integrated Global System Model.
by Robert H. Frank
NY Times | The Upshot[Excerpt from full article]
Myth 6: Penalizing greenhouse gas emissions would violate people’s freedom.
As John Stuart Mill, the...