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Recent Event
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | Feb 11, 2013
As Massachusetts and communities throughout the country face the realities of a world where severe weather events like Super Storm Sandy could become more common, smart adaptation strategies are needed. MIT students and researchers brought their latest ideas and findings to the table at an event on...
Researcher Highlight
Faculty Forum | Feb 11, 2013
Research aimed at predicting future climate activity has primarily focused on large and complex numerical models. While this approach has provided some quantitative estimates of climate change, those predictions can vary greatly from one model to the next and produce doubts in the projected outcome...
Researcher Highlight
Feb 11, 2013
In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor Kerry Emanuel '76, PhD '78 discusses a new approach to climate science that emphasizes basic understanding.
In The News
Washington Post | Feb 08, 2013
By Brad Plumer
February 6, 2013
Like it or hate it, policymakers in Washington are still obsessed with the deficit. That’s why think tanks keep churning out clever plans to cut spending and raise taxes.
And here’s a new paper from the Council on Foreign Relations offering an interesting twist on...
In The News
The Tech | Feb 08, 2013
MIT students frequently use the T and other MassDOT transit systems; since 2010, our IDs even come with a built-in Charlie Card chip. But most students are unfamiliar with the inner workings of the transit system. I was excited to take advantage of one of the opportunities offered this IAP and take...
Commentary
WBUR | Feb 05, 2013
By Henry (Jake) Jacoby
Introduction
Mitigating climate change doesn’t sound as monumental as ending, or reversing climate change. But with global phenomenon already “contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion… annually,” according to...
Feb 05, 2013
In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast Professor Kerry Emanuel '76, PhD '78 discussed a new approach to climate science that emphasizes basic understanding over black box simulation. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, Emanuel presented an overview of his climate research and took questions from the...
News Release
2013 Leopold Leadership Program | Feb 04, 2013
Dr. Noelle Selin of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has been selected as one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2013. She is the first fellow to be selected from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Based at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...
Recent Event
MIT News | Jan 25, 2013
MIT researchers, Massachusetts officials highlight strategies to adapt to climate change.
Just days after President Obama called for action on climate change in his second inaugural address, members of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s administration joined energy and environment researchers...
In The News
LA Times | Jan 23, 2013
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Big deal, little fanfare over global pact on mercury controls
By Carol J. Williams
January 23, 2013
It’s a highly toxic element that travels the world in mysterious ways, respects neither manmade nor natural boundaries and rapidly accumulates in people and the food they eat.
Mercury’s...