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				<title>May 9, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Coral Davenport Kerry Emanuel registered as a Republican as soon he turned 18, in 1973. The aspiring scientist was turned off by what he saw as the Left&rsquo;s blind ideology. &ldquo;I had...]]></description>
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				<title>May 9, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Dust in the clouds</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By&nbsp;Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeAt any given time, cirrus clouds &mdash; the thin wisps of vapor that trail  across the sky &mdash; cover nearly one-third of the globe. These clouds  coalesce in the upper layers of the troposphere, often more than 10  miles above the Earth&rsquo;s surface. ]]></description>
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				<title>May 7, 2013 -- NEWS RELEASE: Cleaner energy, warmer climate?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Researchers explore possible consequences of greater biofuel use The growing global demand for energy, combined with a need to reduce emissions and lessen the effects of climate change, has increased focus on cleaner energy sources. But what unintended consequences could these cleaner sources have on the changing climate?]]></description>
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				<title>May 6, 2013 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: Pace of climate zone shifts quickens as climate warms</title>
				<description><![CDATA[According to a new study co-authored by Susan Solomon, as the planet warms, not only do Earth's...]]></description>
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				<title>May 1, 2013 -- RECENT EVENT: The case for optimism about a renewable energy future</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Researcher Eric Martinot presents findings of two-year project at campus eventProfessor Eric Martinot, the senior research director with the Institute  for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo, told students and faculty at a  seminar on April 18 that renewables have become &ldquo;mainstream&rdquo; and are &ldquo;a  major part of our energy system.&rdquo;]]></description>
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				<title>April 29, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: What If We Never Run Out of Oil?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Charles C. MannNew technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle&mdash;and a nightmare.As the great research ship Chikyu  left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the  Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard ...]]></description>
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				<title>April 23, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS:  Cooling Down Climate Change, While Heating Up Grocery Bills: ES&amp;T’s Top Policy Analysis Article 2012</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Janet...]]></description>
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				<title>April 22, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: A way to curb global warming: Suck carbon emissions right out of the air?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Pete Spotts, Staff writer Most efforts to address carbon emissions focus on preventing them from entering the atmosphere in the first place. But how to get rid of CO2 already there? Start-ups are developing prototype air-capture systems.&nbsp;Efforts to combat global warming, triggered and reinforced by rising levels of carbon dioxide as humans burn fossil fuels...]]></description>
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				<title>April 16, 2013 -- COMMENTARY: Climate Change Series: The Future Of Food</title>
				<description><![CDATA[IntroductionOf all the uncertainties climate change presents, its impact on the production and distribution of food is one of the greatest. We are already feeling the effects: 2012 was a bad year for farmers, with droughts and erratic weather decimating crops and pushing up global food prices. Food prices are at historic highs and there have been two global food crises in the...]]></description>
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				<title>March 14, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: What’s the best way to design a carbon tax? Lawmakers ask for suggestions.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, four Democrats in Congress unveiled&nbsp;a brand-new proposal&nbsp;for a carbon tax. The set-up is simple: The U.S. government...]]></description>
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				<title>March 5, 2013 -- COMMENTARY: Energy efficiency needs more research</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Before we spend much more government money pushing energy efficiency, we need more rigorous analysis to identify where consumers are systematically making mistakes and how large these mistakes are.In his State of the Union, President Obama set a goal to &quot;cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years.&quot;Many...]]></description>
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				<title>March 4, 2013 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of Energy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[  President Barack Obama announced today that he intends to nominate MIT&rsquo;s Ernest J. Moniz to head the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).  Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, as well...]]></description>
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				<title>February 23, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Study: Gas taxes are six times as effective as stricter fuel-economy standards</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Brad PlumerFebruary 22, 2013What&rsquo;s the best way to curtail  gasoline consumption? Economists tend to agree on the answer here:  Higher gas taxes at the pump are more effective than stricter  fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks.Much more effective, in fact. A new paper  from researchers...]]></description>
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				<title>February 22, 2013 -- COMMENTARY: The Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax</title>
				<description><![CDATA[THE average price of gasoline in the United States, $3.78 on Thursday, has been steadily climbing for more than a month and is approaching the three previous post-recession peaks, in May 2011 and in April and September of last year.But if our goal is to get Americans to drive less and use more fuel-efficient vehicles, and to reduce air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases,...]]></description>
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				<title>February 21, 2013 -- NEWS RELEASE: The Case of the Missing Gas Tax: Politics over Economics</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers find vehicle efficiency standards are at least six times more costly than a tax on fuel. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Valerie Karplus makes her case in an...]]></description>
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				<title>February 15, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Natural hazards: New York vs the sea</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Nature: Natural hazards: New York vs the sea By: Jeff Tollefson February 13, 2013  In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest US city from future floods.Joe Leader's heart sank as he descended into the South Ferry subway station at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York. It was 8 p.m. on 29...]]></description>
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				<title>February 13, 2013 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: Susan Solomon wins the Vetlesen Prize and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Susan Solomon has won both the Vetlesen Prize and a 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.The Vetlesen Prize is given &ldquo;for scientific achievement resulting in a clearer understanding of...]]></description>
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				<title>February 12, 2013 -- SPECIAL COVERAGE: Living in a post-Sandy world</title>
				<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS: Changing with the climate MIT NewsJanuary 25, 2013MIT researchers, Massachusetts...]]></description>
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				<title>February 12, 2013 -- RECENT EVENT: Science Policy in Action</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Last month, the United Nations Environment Programme agreed on the first major environmental treaty in over a decade. Its focus was reducing mercury pollution. There to participate in the events were ten MIT students and their instructor Noelle Selin, a researcher with the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and an assistant professor of atmospheric chemistry and engineering...]]></description>
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				<title>February 11, 2013 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: Forging a New Direction in Climate Research</title>
				<description><![CDATA[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. In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast ]]></description>
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				<title>February 11, 2013 -- RECENT EVENT: Climate Research Showcase</title>
				<description><![CDATA[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 January 29. The interdisciplinary group of young researchers presented to officials from the...]]></description>
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				<title>February 8, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: An oil tax could be one of the least painful ways to trim the deficit</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Brad PlumerFebruary 6, 2013Like it or hate it, policymakers in Washington are still obsessed with the deficit. That&rsquo;s why think tanks keep churning out clever plans to cut spending and raise taxes.And here&rsquo;s a new paper from the Council on Foreign Relations offering an interesting twist on the theme. Using...]]></description>
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				<title>February 8, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Reporter's Notebook: An inside tour of the MassDOT</title>
				<description><![CDATA[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 a tour of several MassDOT (Massachusetts Department of Transportation) facilities, including an...]]></description>
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				<title>February 5, 2013 -- COMMENTARY: Climate Change Series: Mitigating The Damage</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Henry (Jake) Jacoby&nbsp;IntroductionMitigating climate change doesn&rsquo;t sound as monumental as ending, or reversing climate change. But with global phenomenon already &ldquo;contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion&hellip; annually,&rdquo; according to the Climate...]]></description>
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				<title>February 4, 2013 -- NEWS RELEASE: Noelle Selin selected as a 2013 Leopold Leadership Fellow</title>
				<description><![CDATA[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.&nbsp;Based at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the Leopold Leadership Program...]]></description>
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				<title>January 25, 2013 -- RECENT EVENT: Changing with the climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s administration joined energy and environment researchers at  MIT to discuss strategies for adapting to climate change....]]></description>
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				<title>January 23, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Paint Pigment, Violent Raccoons and Other Surprising Mercury Trivia</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Paint Pigment, Violent Raccoons and Other Surprising Mercury TriviaJanuary 18, 2013By: Jenny MarderDelegates gathered in Geneva this week to negotiate for a global  treaty to regulate the toxic chemical mercury.I want to call your attention to a blog on &quot;issues...]]></description>
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				<title>January 23, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Big deal, little fanfare over global pact on mercury controls</title>
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				<title>January 22, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Mercury Emissions Threaten Aquatic Environments</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ By Brian Bienkowski and Environmental Health NewsJanuary 18, 2013As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today,  scientists warn that ongoing emissions are more of a threat to food webs  than...]]></description>
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				<title>January 17, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot days 80 percent since 1960</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Juliet EilperinAs winter begins to tighten its grip on much of the United States,  air conditioning doesn&rsquo;t seem like much of a survival strategy. But a new study has  found that home air conditioning played a key role in reducing American  death rates over the past half-century, by keeping...]]></description>
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				<title>January 15, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: An Antidote for Climate Contrarianism</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Justin Gillis I would guess a few Green readers had the experience, over the holidays, of arguing yet again about global warming  with a parent or brother-in-law who thinks it&rsquo;s all a...]]></description>
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				<title>January 15, 2013 -- NEWS RELEASE: MIT Researchers Awarded for Work in Planning and the Environment</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Karplus, Paltsev recieve award for study on the impacts of vehicle efficieny stanards]]></description>
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				<title>January 14, 2013 -- NEWS ADVISORY: MIT Students Attend International Mercury Talks</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Get the inside scoop and follow LIVE reports from Geneva by twitter and blog. Ten MIT students are having an experience of...]]></description>
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				<title>January 14, 2013 -- COMMENTARY: Carbon Tax Revisited</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A Win for Energy and AmericaBy John ReillyTHE NEW - STILL DIVIDED - CONGRESS reconvenes this  month, and its first order of business is the looming federal deficit.  The president made his desires clear in his victory speech: &quot;We want our  children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt . that isn't  threatened by the...]]></description>
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				<title>January 9, 2013 -- NEWS RELEASE: Strategies to Reduce Mercury Revealed Ahead of International Talks</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Harvard, MIT researchers map future trends of mercury and ways to reduce it on eve of international negotiations.  International negotiators will come together next week in Geneva,  Switzerland for the fifth and final meeting to address global controls ...]]></description>
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				<title>December 18, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: New Tool Helps Forecast Water Woes, Provides Insights for Adapting</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki EkstromMIT researchers enhance model to assess the risks of water stress.A conflict over water management has...]]></description>
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				<title>December 12, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: If Mercury Pollution Knows No Borders, Neither Can Its Solution</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Kate GalbraithAUSTIN, TEXAS &mdash; The harm that can be caused by consuming or breathing  mercury is well known and terrible. A pregnant woman, eating too much of  the wrong kind of fish, risks bearing a child with neurological damage.  Adults or children exposed to mercury can experience mood swings or  tremors, or sometimes...]]></description>
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				<title>December 12, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: A notion to cool the skies</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Benefits, risks of using geoengineering to counter climate change. If they wanted to, nations around the  world could release globe-cooling aerosols into the...]]></description>
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				<title>December 10, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Paying for It</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By:Elizabeth KolbertIt&rsquo;s been almost a century since the British  economist Arthur Pigou floated the idea that turned his name into an  adjective. In &ldquo;The Economics of Welfare,&rdquo; published in 1920, Pigou  pointed out that private investments often impose costs on other people.  Consider this example: A man walks into a bar. He orders several  rounds, downs them,...]]></description>
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				<title>December 3, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: A tax we could learn to love</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: David FrumEditor's note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the author of eight books, including a new novel, &quot;Patriots,&quot; and his post-election e-book, &quot;Why Romney Lost.&quot; Frum was a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002.]]></description>
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				<title>November 30, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: IEA’s Fatih Birol Visits MIT Global Change Program</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki EkstromFatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), visited MIT on Wednesday, November 28 to present this year&rsquo;s World Energy Outlook. While on...]]></description>
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				<title>November 28, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: “Fugitive” Methane from Shale Gas Production Less Than Previously Thought</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers, using field practices, find emissions from shale gas production to be significantly lower than previous estimates. While the United States lags in developing a broad-based...]]></description>
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				<title>November 26, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Watching the Arctic Melt</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Watching the Arctic Melt: Adventures in Polar Oceanographyby Genevieve WanuchaOne hundred people packed into the Whitehead Institute on November 19th  to attend the Oceans at MIT special symposium, entitled &lsquo;Watching the  Arctic Melt: Adventures in Polar Oceanography.&rsquo; Most people there  already knew that the...]]></description>
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				<title>November 13, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Vehicle Efficiency Standards vs. a Carbon Tax: The Costs and Politics</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers show merits of a carbon tax.New standards to strengthen vehicle fuel efficiency are considered one  of the landmark environmental achievements of President Obama&rsquo;s first ...]]></description>
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				<title>November 13, 2012 -- EDITORIAL: America's carbon compromise</title>
				<description><![CDATA[This week, a reinvigorated Barack Obama returned to the White House knowing that he was poised on the edge of a fiscal cliff. Rather than relishing his victory last week, Obama must immediately set about crafting a compromise on deficit reduction with congressional leaders. The stakes could hardly be higher &mdash; for science, for US citizens and, indeed, for the world. In the event of failure,...]]></description>
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				<title>November 13, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Carbon Tax Idea Gains Wonkish Energy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Keith JohnsonWith the  fiscal cliff looming and parts of the U.S. still digging out from the  aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, calls for the U.S. to adopt a carbon tax  are gathering steam&ndash;even though there&rsquo;s little sign of interest from  Congress or the White House.Today the conservative American Enterprise Institute is holding an all-day, on-the-record ]]></description>
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				<title>November 13, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: A carbon tax would allow us to cut other taxes – but not much</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Dylan Matthews Grover Norquist made headlines Monday night for ]]></description>
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				<title>November 9, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS:  With ‘fiscal cliff’ looming, carbon tax getting closer look</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Steven Mufson, November&nbsp;9Here&rsquo;s a riddle: If Congress doesn&rsquo;t want to raise income tax rates but wants to raise revenue, what can it do?One answer: Pass a carbon tax.A relatively moderate-sized carbon tax...]]></description>
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				<title>November 9, 2012 -- COMMENTARY: U.S. carbon tax works, with support: Wynn</title>
				<description><![CDATA[(The author is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.)&nbsp;By Gerard Wynn(Reuters) - Academics and lawmakers have proposed a U.S. carbon tax to  curb carbon emissions and trim the debt pile, but the idea depends on  prominent Republican support, so...]]></description>
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				<title>November 7, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: New Method Could Help Communities Plan for Climate Risk</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning.Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event &mdash; whether...]]></description>
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				<title>November 4, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: Clearing the Air</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon finds hope in past environmental challenges.By: Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeSusan Solomon, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science]]></description>
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				<title>October 30, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Water for Energy -- Connections, Collisions, and Opportunities</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The 2012 drought in America brought to light the challenges we face  when there isn't sufficient water to cool our nation's power plants.  Conventional fossil-fuel and nuclear power plants require water to cool  the steam they generate to make electricity. In 2005, power plants  accounted for over 40 percent of all freshwater withdrawn in the U.S.  Many power plants need a huge, steady supply of...]]></description>
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				<title>October 30, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Was Hurricane Sandy Caused By Climate Change?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Whenever there&rsquo;s an extreme weather event, from a hurricane to a   record&nbsp;drought,&nbsp;the question always arises: Is it climate change? MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel told Here &amp; Now's Robin Young that it's hard to know for sure, but it is clear that as coastal waters warm up, storms will carry more rain, due to the added...]]></description>
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				<title>October 18, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: No Wars for Water: Why Climate Change Has Not Led to Conflict</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The   policy community has long prophesied about the coming water wars. But   don't expect them anytime soon. More likely, tensions over access will   merely exacerbate existing regional conflicts.By: Shlomi Dinar, Lucia De...]]></description>
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				<title>October 17, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: At MIT, Dalai Lama calls for better stewardship of Earth's resources</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Tibetan Buddhist leader urges a more enlightened view of self-interest in remarks at MIT conference.The Dalai Lama called for increasingly enlightened stewardship of  Earth&rsquo;s environment and resources in public remarks on...]]></description>
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				<title>October 16, 2012 -- UPCOMING EVENT: Climate &amp; Conflict - Is America Profiting from Climate Change?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the response to MIT Museum's popular Rivers of Ice  exhibition and ongoing public concerns about the role of science in  current political campaigns and policies, the Museum is holding a soap box series of events on climate...]]></description>
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				<title>October 10, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Presidential campaigns offer energetic energy debate at MIT</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Representatives of Obama, Romney camps lay out differences in crucial policy domains of energy and the environment. Video: Watch the debate ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=208</link>
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				<title>October 5, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Mozambique: Researchers Warn Climate Change Will Hit Roads</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Maputo &mdash; Researchers from the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology (MIT) and the United Nations have warned that  Mozambique's infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme weather events that  are becoming more frequent due to climate change.According to MIT's Ken Strzepek, &quot;in developing countries - and  particularly in Africa - they are building...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=205</link>
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				<title>October 1, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Climate change: a developing challenge for poor nations</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Read more from the Mozambique News Agency. MIT and U.N. researchers team up to tackle some of the heftiest climate  change challenges developing countries will face as they confront an  uncertain future.]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=204</link>
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				<title>October 1, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Women's impact in clean energy is growing worldwide</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT symposium highlights women&rsquo;s increasing leadership in energy research, industry and government.Female leaders are playing a growing role in advancing the development  of clean-energy technologies, helping to advance plans for carbon  reduction, reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and foster job  creation. Some of these women were honored in a daylong...]]></description>
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				<title>September 24, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Despite the weather, climate change gets little mention in the campaign</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Washington Post/Associated PressThe issue: People love to talk about the weather, especially when it&rsquo;s strange like the mercifully...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=203</link>
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				<title>September 18, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: What the Past Teaches: Meeting Today's Global Environmental Challenges</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Atmospheric science pioneer Susan Solomon speaks on past environmental  accomplishments, technology&rsquo;s role and how history should be our guide  to meeting today&rsquo;s global challenges.By: Vicki Ekstrom]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=202</link>
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				<title>September 17, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: When it rains, it pours</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Study estimates rate of intensification of extreme tropical rainfall with global warming. By: Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office  Extreme precipitation in the tropics comes in many forms: thunderstorm complexes,...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=201</link>
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				<title>September 11, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: The Changing Climate and a Much-Needed Carbon Tax</title>
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				<title>September 10, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Study maps pollution's pathway to the Arctic, sets path for future research</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers have built a model that will be further developed as  part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote  Arctic environments.By: Vicki EkstromListen to researcher Noelle Selin on Alaska's KNOM radio here (segment begins at 3m 42s)]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=197</link>
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				<title>September 7, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Hurricane Link To Climate Change Explained</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Kieran Mulvaney&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=199</link>
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				<title>August 28, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Carbon Tax Could Raise $1.5 Trillion as Federal Deficit Looms, MIT Report Says</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Ari Natter   &nbsp;WASHINGTON, D.C.--A tax on carbon dioxide emissions could raise $1.5  trillion, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report that said  the revenue could be used to stave off budget cuts as Congress seeks to reduce a ...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=198</link>
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				<title>August 27, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Study: Carbon Tax a 'Win-Win-Win' for America's Future</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Read the authors&rsquo; op-ed in Politico.Read the study's coverage in the Washington Post Here, Here...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=192</link>
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				<title>August 27, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Could a carbon tax help the U.S. avert the fiscal cliff?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Brad PlumerWith the United States facing the expiration of a slew of tax cuts in 2013&mdash;the dread &ldquo;fiscal cliff&rdquo;&mdash;there  has been plenty of interest in offbeat tax-reform proposals. And one  idea that a few economists keep...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=194</link>
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				<title>August 27, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Study: Carbon tax could raise $1.5 trillion</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Zack ColmanTaxing carbon would generate $1.5 trillion, potentially giving  politicians cover from making politically difficult decisions on taxes  and social spending cuts, according to a study by the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology (MIT) released Monday.A carbon tax would take pressure  off Congress to find &ldquo;tradeoffs&rdquo;...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=195</link>
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				<title>August 26, 2012 -- COMMENTARY: Politico- Carbon tax offers win-win-win</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Read the news release on this report. Read the study's coverage in the Washington Post Here, ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=193</link>
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				<title>July 26, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Storms Threaten Ozone Layer Over U.S., Study Says</title>
				<description><![CDATA[In a study published online  by the journal Science, Harvard University scientists reported that  some storms send water vapor miles into the stratosphere &mdash; which is  normally drier than a desert &mdash; and showed how such events could rapidly  set off ozone-destroying reactions with...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=191</link>
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				<title>June 25, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Seeing Green. Saving Forests or Food Prices</title>
				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;A growing population and rapid development will put a strain on land  used to grow food over this century. But if reforestation is used to  avoid climate change it will create further strain, says a new MIT  study.It&rsquo;s no surprise that the United  States and China are the world&rsquo;s top ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=187</link>
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				<title>June 19, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: It's Not Just Summer, World Keeps Warming</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Eric Niiler As world leaders gather to assess the planet's health, most reports are gloomy, save for a couple bits of good news. ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=186</link>
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				<title>June 18, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water</title>
				<description><![CDATA[NREL-MIT study shows an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama set a goal for  80 percent of America's electricity to...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=184</link>
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				<title>June 15, 2012 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: Ron Prinn on the Importance of Models in Measuring Climate Change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change co-director and TEPCO professor of atmospheric science Ron Prinn was recently...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=185</link>
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				<title>June 13, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Getting the Price Right on Climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[IMF-MIT study shows immediate &ndash; but realistic &ndash; actions are needed to confront climate change.&nbsp;As global leaders prepare...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=183</link>
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				<title>June 5, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Survey: Latin American and Asian cities lead way in planning for global warming</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Peter Dizikes&nbsp;Quito, Ecuador, is not considered a global leader by most measures. But  there is one way in which...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=182</link>
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				<title>June 4, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Climate Scientists Lament a Nation Stuck on the Wrong Debate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Katherine BagleyWhile the national climate debate is fixed on whether Earth is  warming, climate scientists are focused on understanding how bad it will  be. ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=181</link>
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				<title>May 31, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Warming gas levels hit 'troubling milestone'</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s air has  reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon  dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring  more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the  atmosphere. The number isn&rsquo;t quite a surprise, because it&rsquo;s been rising  at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=180</link>
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				<title>May 23, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: When -- if ever -- will the oil-gas price gap close?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Peter Behr, E&amp;E reporter]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=178</link>
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				<title>May 22, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: No crystal ball for natural gas</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, oil prices have been used to gauge the natural gas  market; but new research shows that the future of what is currently a  cheap fuel is really anyone's guess. Natural gas prices neared the lowest...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=177</link>
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				<title>May 2, 2012 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: Emanuel on Climate Change and the Body Politic</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: JUSTIN GILLISThe latest installment in our Temperature Rising series, just published,  is about an argument between...]]></description>
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				<title>April 26, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Communicating the climate challenge</title>
				<description><![CDATA[New York Times&rsquo; Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.By: Vicki Ekstrom Using new ways to confront persistent challenges is one of...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=174</link>
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				<title>April 26, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: How to calculate the true cost of energy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Posted by  Brad Plumer  at  10:48 AM ET, 04/25/2012]]></description>
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				<title>April 20, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Our Gasoline-Free Future and How to get There</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Toyota&rsquo;s Tom Stricker shares his view with MIT students, faculty Video: Watch the event ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=173</link>
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				<title>April 17, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: MIT Museum Exhibit Highlights the Effects of Climate Change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[With the advisement of several Joint Program on Global Change researchers&mdash;including the co-director Ron Prinn and co-director emeritus Jake Jacoby&mdash;the MIT Museum opened a new...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=171</link>
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				<title>April 13, 2012 -- RECENT EVENT: Facing the facts about our changing climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers join Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions. By: Vicki Ekstrom In an effort to share what is known, what isn't, and what can and cannot  be done about climate change, MIT's John Reilly and Kerry...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=172</link>
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				<title>March 27, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: EPA emission standards may rule out new coal power plants</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Proposed  new emissions standards would limit carbon dioxide produced by new  power plants, which would probably prohibit construction of any  coal-fired facilities. By: Neela Banerjee, Washington BureauWASHINGTON  &mdash; Taking aim at the gases that the vast majority of scientists say are  the main contributor to climate change, the Obama administration ...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=170</link>
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				<title>March 26, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Powering the Chinese dragon</title>
				<description><![CDATA[CLPs Peter Littlewood talks with MIT researchers and  students about the country&rsquo;s strengths and the United States&rsquo;s  opportunity to embrace them.  Just weeks after ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=169</link>
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				<title>March 21, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: Water world</title>
				<description><![CDATA['Weather in a tank' demonstration helps students grasp fluid dynamics. By: Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeFluid dynamics plays a central role in determining Earth's climate. Ocean currents and eddies stir up contents from the deep, while atmospheric winds and weather systems steer temperature and moisture around the globe. As the planet spins on its...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=168</link>
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				<title>March 20, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: Greenhouse gas can find a home underground</title>
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				<title>March 5, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Growing population will increase global climate challenges</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki Ekstrom Read the 2012 Energy and Climate Outlook. As populations across the world grow,...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=165</link>
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				<title>March 5, 2012 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: Fuel for thought: Economist Christopher Knittel uncovers surprising facts about the cars we drive and about the price of gas.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of economists, Christopher Knittel entered college with  career plans in mind. Unlike a lot of economists, Knittel had plans that  involved baseball. At California State University at Stanislaus,  Knittel was good enough to make the team as a second baseman. But during  his freshman season, reality sank in.&ldquo;I quickly learned the  pros weren&rsquo;t in my...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=166</link>
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				<title>March 1, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Our complex food future and how to respond</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki Ekstrom &nbsp;Today&rsquo;s global challenges will significantly affect how  we grow our food. But these challenges are so complex and intertwined  that response measures...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=164</link>
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				<title>February 28, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: A climate window in the Southern Ocean</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Jennifer Chu&nbsp;The Southern Ocean, the vast belt of water circling  Antarctica, is a turbulent part of the ocean...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=163</link>
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				<title>February 9, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: MIT study suggests gas tax hike to improve car fuel efficiency</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Josh MaxIt&rsquo;s official &ndash; we don&rsquo;t want cars that get 200 or more miles to the gallon, and it&rsquo;s consumers&rsquo; fault, not automakers&rsquo;.A new report issued by Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Christopher Knittel says major...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=159</link>
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				<title>February 2, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Could cheap natural gas slow growth of renewable energy?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Richard HarrisListen to the story. ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=157</link>
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				<title>February 1, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: EPA air chief talks energy, environment with MIT experts</title>
				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;By: Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=156</link>
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				<title>January 20, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Leda Zimmerman, MIT Energy Initiative  As Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, Jessika Trancik focuses her research on the evolution of technologies and on decomposing performance trajectories of energy...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=153</link>
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				<title>January 20, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: MIT researcher: U.S. taking leadership on mercury in the environment</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeSOURCE: EPAAmericans have long known the dangers of mercury in our environment,  with doctors repeatedly warning pregnant women to remove...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=154</link>
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				<title>January 19, 2012 -- RESEARCHER HIGHLIGHT: MIT Researcher Joins EPA Regional Administrator to Discuss Mercury Standards</title>
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				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=152</link>
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				<title>January 18, 2012 -- IN THE NEWS: Shale Gas: A Boon That Could Stunt Alternatives, Study Says</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Mason Inman, National Geographic NewsSOURCE: APShale gas has transformed the U.S. energy landscape in the past several years&mdash;but it may crowd out...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=150</link>
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				<title>January 17, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: The high price of climate change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeSOURCE: NASAIf you&rsquo;re planning to build that  dream beach...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=149</link>
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				<title>January 10, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: Powering our cars, economy and climate policy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change&nbsp;Regional climate policies depend  largely on fiscal strategies and can  have spiraling effects throughout the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=148</link>
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				<title>January 4, 2012 -- MIT SPOTLIGHT: The case of the missing gas mileage</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades &mdash;  but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased.  An MIT economist explains the conundrum.By: Peter Dizikes, MIT News OfficeContrary to common perception, the major automakers have produced large  increases in fuel efficiency through better...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=147</link>
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				<title>January 3, 2012 -- NEWS RELEASE: A shale gas revolution? MIT report shows prosperous shale gas market could hurt future R&amp;D, if we let it.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By: Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change&nbsp;Shale gas &mdash; a resource that has grown&nbsp;significantly&nbsp;in just the last few  years to one-quarter of the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=146</link>
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				<title>December 21, 2011 -- EPA regulates emissions of mercury, arsenic and many other toxins</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Dean KuipersFinally, some sanity regarding smokestack emissions. After decades of political squabbling, on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=144</link>
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				<title>December 21, 2011 -- Proposal for MIT Global Environment Initiative seeks public comment</title>
				<description><![CDATA[As the world&rsquo;s population continues to expand, our natural resources  will become increasingly strained. In an effort to find sustainable  solutions for the planet&rsquo;s growing population while minimizing  environmental...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=145</link>
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				<title>December 5, 2011 -- With changes, the grid can take it</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT report shows that with new policies, U.S. electric grid could handle  expected influx of electric cars and wind and solar generation.Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face ...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=141</link>
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				<title>November 21, 2011 -- Greenhouse gases soar; no signs warming is slowed</title>
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				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=140</link>
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				<title>November 18, 2011 -- Greenhouse gases, water vapor and you</title>
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				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=139</link>
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				<title>October 27, 2011 -- Harnessing the Earth, the atom and the leaf</title>
				<description><![CDATA[There are many sources that can make a contribution to our energy supply, but likely not at a major scale in the near future.   Beyond wind and solar power, a variety of carbon-free sources of energy &mdash; notably biofuels, geothermal energy and...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=137</link>
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				<title>October 25, 2011 -- Where the wind blows</title>
				<description><![CDATA[How far can wind power go toward reducing global carbon emissions from electricity production?With the world&rsquo;s energy needs growing rapidly, can zero-carbon energy options be scaled up enough to make a significant difference? How much of a dent can these...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=136</link>
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				<title>October 24, 2011 -- What can make a dent?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Given the enormous scale of worldwide energy use, there are limited options for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.At any given moment, the world is consuming about 14 terawatts (trillions of watts) of energy &mdash; everything from...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=135</link>
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				<title>October 5, 2011 -- Introducing the China Energy and Climate Project</title>
				<description><![CDATA[In collaboration with Tsinghua University, MIT launches a new research project to analyze the impact of China&rsquo;s existing and proposed energy and climate policies.Multiple forecasts suggest that rapidly developing nations such as China will be responsible for most of the growth...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=134</link>
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				<title>October 4, 2011 -- The power of manure</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Anaerobic digesters provide a win-win opportunity for agriculture and energy.When thinking about renewable energy sources, images of windmills and solar panels often come to mind. Now add to that picture livestock manure. Researchers from the MIT Joint Program...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=133</link>
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				<title>September 8, 2011 -- Valuing the trees through the forest</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Competing demands for food, fuels, and forests How do you value an ecosystem? Putting a dollar value on natural systems such as forests has long beset economists. Forests provide &ldquo;non-use values,&rdquo; such as the pleasure of knowing that a  natural system exists, and recreational values, such as hunting,  fishing and wildlife viewing. But recently,...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=132</link>
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				<title>August 29, 2011 -- A new way to model urban air pollution</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers improve upon methods to model atmospheric aerosols.Allison CrimminsUrban regions account for an ever increasing fraction of Earth&rsquo;s population, and are consequently an ever increasing source of air pollutants. These pollutants include anthropogenic aerosols, which have important climate and ]]></description>
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				<title>August 27, 2011 -- Seeing Irene as Harbinger of a Change in Climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JUSTIN GILLISThe scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change?The short answer from scientists is that they are still trying to figure it out. But many of them do believe that hurricanes will get more...]]></description>
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				<title>August 25, 2011 -- Why are hurricane forecasts still so rough?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Kerry Emanuel, Special to CNNAugust 25, 2011 11:45 p.m. EDTEditor's note: Kerry Emanuel is a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(CNN) -- At this moment, Hurricane Irene poses a risk to almost everyone living along...]]></description>
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				<title>August 1, 2011 -- Offshore wind turbines cool the marine atmosphere</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Nadya AnscombeIf wind power is going to meet 20% of our predicted energy needs in 2100, millions of wind turbines must be installed around the globe. Modelling performed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, has shown that these vast wind farms, if installed in offshore regions, could reduce the temperature of the lower atmosphere above the site by 1...]]></description>
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				<title>July 20, 2011 -- Mercury Game released</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making. The Mercury Game was written by Leah C. Stokes, Dr. Noelle E. Selin and Dr. Lawrence E. Susskind. The Mercury Game will be launched and played as a short course on Sunday July 24th from 1-4 pm in Halifax,  Canada at the International Conference of...]]></description>
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				<title>July 19, 2011 -- Press Event in Houston: Study Predicts More Unhealthy Air for Houstonians</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Dr. Tammy Thompson, postdoctoral associate from the MIT Joint Program for the Science and Policy of Global Change, will be speaking at a press conference held by the Texas Sierra Club at the Houston City Hall on Tuesday, July 19, 10:00am. Dr. Thompson wil be speaking on air pollution in Texas. For the Sierra Club Press Release, ]]></description>
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				<title>July 11, 2011 -- Brookings Institute podcast on the Future of Natural Gas</title>
				<description><![CDATA[As the world economy attempts to balance burgeoning energy demand with lower carbon emissions, natural gas has become a central pillar of energy strategy in both the developed and developing world. Advances in exploration and production technology have led to newly abundant sources of &ldquo;unconventional&rdquo; natural gas in the United States, with implications for policymakers as they look to...]]></description>
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				<title>June 16, 2011 -- A national push for energy innovation</title>
				<description><![CDATA[At MIT, former Michigan governor touts new bipartisan initiatives to make the U.S. the world&rsquo;s clean-energy champ.David L. Chandler, MIT News OfficeIn a spirited talk at MIT, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm presented a plan for a bipartisan initiative that she...]]></description>
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				<title>June 13, 2011 -- Report: Natural gas can play major role in greenhouse gas reduction</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The cleanest of fossil fuels, it is far more abundant than previously thought and can have significant impact at little cost, MIT study finds.David L. Chandler, MIT News Office    ]]></description>
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				<title>June 9, 2011 -- Coal-to-liquid fuels poised for a comeback</title>
				<description><![CDATA[With rising energy prices, could coal-to-liquid conversion become an economical fuel option?Converting coal into liquid fuels is known to be more costly than current energy technologies, both in terms of production costs and the amount of greenhouse gases the process emits. Production of coal-to-liquid fuel, or CTL, has a large carbon footprint, releasing more than twice the lifecycle...]]></description>
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				<title>June 9, 2011 -- An M.I.T. Plan for Natural Gas With Planet in Mind</title>
				<description><![CDATA[By ANDREW C. REVKINThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released &ldquo;The Future of Natural Gas,&rdquo; the latest in its valuable series of reports examining global energy choices. The report lays out a path for exploiting this abundant and relatively clean source of energy in ways that could limit environmental concerns and give the biggest near-term boost to efforts to trim...]]></description>
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				<title>June 8, 2011 -- The impact of climate policy on U.S. aviation</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Researchers find that a federal climate policy would lower total U.S. emissions, but without large reductions in the aviation sector.Aviation is one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide, and with this growth comes a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. An economy-wide cap-and-trade policy would decrease carbon emissions for all U.S. industries, including the aviation...]]></description>
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				<title>June 6, 2011 -- The price of fresh air</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Hear Noelle Selin discuss air pollution in China on Danish Radio. (Interview in Danish)How costly are the health damages from air pollution in China?China has experienced unprecedented development over the past three decades, but this growth has come at a...]]></description>
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				<title>May 24, 2011 -- Co-Director John M. Reilly Joins  Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Advisory Board</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Press Release:Top economist will work with experts around the world to address global food issues  May 24, 2011 (MILAN) &ndash; John M. Reilly, Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, is now the newest member of the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) Advisory Board, a panel of top health, food, environment, economy and...]]></description>
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				<title>May 20, 2011 -- MIT adds to the cap-and-trade debate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[by James OttAviation Week, May 20, 2011A report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should be required reading for environmental policymakers. &ldquo;The Impact of Climate Policy on US Aviation&rdquo; was issued this week by the Transportation Research Board. It is an independent assessment and takes no prisoners in the sometimes strange world of...]]></description>
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				<title>May 20, 2011 -- Natural Gas, Coal, and Climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[by John Reilly with Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, and Richard SchmalenseeHuffington Post, May 20, 2011]]></description>
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				<title>May 19, 2011 -- The True Cost of Carbon</title>
				<description><![CDATA[New York Times, May 18, 2011By DAVID LEONHARDT Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, economists at The Hamilton Project, are releasing a new paper Wednesday on the costs of American energy policy. They argue:]]></description>
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				<title>May 2, 2011 -- Thousands spend Saturday at MIT</title>
				<description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Under the Dome&rsquo; showcases discovery and innovation; first open house in decades. Emily Finn, MIT News Office April 30, 2011 The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change participated in Saturday's Open House with exhibits in the...]]></description>
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				<title>April 26, 2011 -- Full Report on The Future of the Nuceal Fuel Cycle Released</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Nuclear power is poised to grow quickly in some parts of the world and could grow significantly here in the United States. Key decisions are pending, however, on how to structure that growth. MIT has completed a 3-year study on the Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle to address two overarching questions: (1) What are the long-term desirable fuel cycle options and (2) What are the implications for...]]></description>
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				<title>April 26, 2011 -- Plug-in hybrids are good for atmospheric ozone levels</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can make a significant contribution towards reducing ozone levels. That's according to a study by US researchers who modelled the effect of different charging scenarios for PHEVs on ozone levels over the state of Texas, US.  Many regions of Texas fail to meet national air quality standards for ozone. Tammy Thompson and her colleagues...]]></description>
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				<title>April 25, 2011 -- Moving climate change regulation forward</title>
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				<title>April 22, 2011 -- Science and policy can catalyze each other, EPA head says</title>
				<description><![CDATA[In MIT visit, Lisa Jackson discusses how technology can affect government regulations. Technological innovations have the ability to change environmental policies just as much as those policies can affect innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said during a visit to MIT on Friday, Apr. 15. In delivering the annual ]]></description>
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				<title>April 19, 2011 -- Study: U.S. drought risk to increase with climate change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[While impacts will vary by region, projections indicate that drought frequency will increase throughout most of the contiguous United States. Danya Rumore, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change The impacts of drought in the United States are estimated to cost an average of $6 to $8 billion per year. These impacts are likely to increase if drought...]]></description>
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				<title>March 18, 2011 -- Carbon Leakage</title>
				<description><![CDATA[New report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and the Policy of Global Change analyzes the impact of border carbon adjustments. Allison Crimmins, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change When one country decides to unilaterally implement climate legislation, there is concern that the emissions reduced locally will result in an increase in...]]></description>
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				<title>March 1, 2011 -- 2011 MIT Excellence Awards honors Chris Hill</title>
				<description><![CDATA[n a ceremony to take place on Tuesday, March 1, from 3-5 pm at Kresge Auditorium, MIT will honor PAOC member Chris Hill for his work as part of an MIT team building a high performance computing center in Holyoke, MA - read an Oct 6 news article for more about this venture.  ...]]></description>
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				<title>February 11, 2011 -- Perspectives on Climate</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Joint Program students and researchers speak with the Boston Museum of Science on NOAA's announcement that 2010 was the hottest year on record. Scientists at the National Oceanic...]]></description>
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				<title>January 21, 2011 -- What's the price of environmental policies?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Joint Program report examines discrepancies in climate-change cost estimatesAllison Crimmins, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeA recent report from MIT researchers aims to identify why proposals for climate-change legislation often have varying and wildly...]]></description>
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				<title>January 10, 2011 -- Energy Choices: Myth v. Fact</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The way we power our homes and cars and factories is one of the most  important choices our society faces. Perhaps it&rsquo;s the push of climate  change, air pollution, resource depletion, and national security. Or  maybe it&rsquo;s the pull of new technologies and newfound energy supplies  that may be cheap and clean. Either way, most experts expect that we are  heading toward a virtual...]]></description>
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				<title>November 30, 2010 -- Joint Program Students Are Winners In Climate CoLab Contest</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A Realistic Climate Proposal Selected For Judge's Choice AwardA team of students at MIT working at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change created a proposal to answer the question: &ldquo; What international climate agreement...]]></description>
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				<title>November 24, 2010 -- Food and Water</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Researchers model the effects of competition for global water resources on agricultureAllison Crimmins, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeAs the globe&rsquo;s population increases and people become wealthier, agricultural production will need to likewise increase. But food systems may become more stressed because of a competition for...]]></description>
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				<title>November 3, 2010 -- 3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on deficit spending</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office As deficit hawks appear poised for victory at the polls, the MIT economics professor presents the case for more spending on infrastructure and R&amp;D. Government deficit spending has been a contentious issue during this year&rsquo;s U.S. mid-term election campaigns. Yet some economists believe that additional government spending in certain...]]></description>
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				<title>November 1, 2010 -- Holdren sees opportunities in energy challenges</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Presidential science adviser calls for increased energy R&amp;D to create jobs and boost business; supports conclusions of MIT nuclear study. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office The two toughest challenges the nation faces in terms of energy, according to presidential science adviser John Holdren &rsquo;65 SM &rsquo;66, are meeting our transportation needs with less...]]></description>
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				<title>October 30, 2010 -- Study sees changing intensity of storms from warming</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Hemispheres will respond to climate change differently, with weaker summer storms in the North, study suggests.Weather systems in the Southern and Northern hemispheres will respond differently to global warming, according to an MIT atmospheric scientists analysis that suggests the warming of the planet will affect the availability of energy to fuel extratropical storms,...]]></description>
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				<title>September 16, 2010 -- Nuclear-fuel report challenges key assumptions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT study finds no shortage of uranium for nuclear energy for decades, but more research is needed to develop improved fuel-cycle options.Uranium supplies will not limit the expansion of nuclear power in the U.S. or around the world for the foreseeable future, according to a major new...]]></description>
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				<title>September 8, 2010 -- More hurricanes in greener seas?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Research suggests ocean color is linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclonesMore hurricanes may form in greener waters, where sunlight tends to be absorbed at shallower depths, than in clear seas, according to new research that draws a link between ocean color and the formation and movement of tropical cyclones.It&rsquo;s no secret that hurricanes...]]></description>
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				<title>August 4, 2010 -- Financial impacts of 'cap and trade'</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Analysis shows that, contrary to some claims, proposed legislation to limit carbon emissions would not disadvantage those with lower incomes.So-called &ldquo;cap and trade&rdquo; legislation has often been portrayed as a regressive policy &mdash; one that would hit poor people the hardest. A new MIT study concluded that this is not the case.The U.S. House of...]]></description>
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				<title>June 25, 2010 -- MIT releases major report: The Future of Natural Gas</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Study finds significant potential to displace coal, reducing greenhouse gas emissions Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation. That&rsquo;s the conclusion reached by a comprehensive study of the future of...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=91</link>
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				<title>June 7, 2010 -- 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury</title>
				<description><![CDATA[As U.N. negotiations begin this week on a global mercury treaty, an MIT atmospheric scientist explains the challenges ahead. The first United Nations negotiating session for a global, legally binding mercury treaty begins today in Stockholm. Continuing through Friday, this is the first of five planned negotiating sessions that will address global controls on mercury, a...]]></description>
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				<title>March 19, 2010 -- Explained: Climate sensitivity</title>
				<description><![CDATA[If we double the Earth&rsquo;s greenhouse gases, how much will the temperature change? That&rsquo;s what this number tells you. (This is the second part of an &quot;Explained&quot; on climate change. Part one dealt with radiative forcing.) Climate sensitivity is the term used by the Intergovernmental Panel...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=88</link>
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				<title>March 17, 2010 -- Weather in a Tank</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve weather and climate education  In recent years, U.S. undergraduates have shown an increasing interest in introductory meteorology, oceanography and climate classes. But many students find it difficult to grasp the non-intuitive nature of rotating fluids, which is critical to understanding how weather...]]></description>
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				<title>March 12, 2010 -- Wind resistance</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate &mdash; and not necessarily in the desired way  Wind power has emerged as a viable renewable energy source in recent years &mdash; one that proponents say could lessen the threat of global warming. Although the American Wind Energy Association estimates that only about 2 percent...]]></description>
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				<title>March 10, 2010 -- Explained: Radiative forcing</title>
				<description><![CDATA[When there's more energy radiating down on the planet than there is radiating back out to space, something&rsquo;s going to have to heat up. (This is the first of a two-part &quot;Explained&quot; on the scientific concepts underlying the concept of the greenhouse effect and global climate change. Part two deals with climate sensitivity.) ]]></description>
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				<title>February 26, 2010 -- Ancient hurricanes</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Intense hurricane activity millions of years ago may have caused and sustained warmer climate conditions, new research suggestsA question central to research on global warming is how warmer temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases could influence climate. Probing the past for clues about this potential effect, MIT and Yale climate scientists examined the Pliocene...]]></description>
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				<title>December 15, 2009 -- Assessing the impact of 'Climategate'</title>
				<description><![CDATA[VIDEO of Climategate discussionEvent and participant detailsAt Dec. 10 forum, MIT faculty experts discussed what 'Climategate' really means for climate science and the ongoing policy negotiations in the Congress and at...]]></description>
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				<title>December 9, 2009 -- 3 Questions: Henry Jacoby on the Copenhagen Conference</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The co-director of MIT's Global Change program discusses what to expect from the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and the effects of 'Climategate'Delegates from around the world began meeting this week in Copenhagen to try to work out a new U.N. pact to address global climate change. Henry Jacoby,...]]></description>
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				<title>November 5, 2009 -- 3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT&rsquo;s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has pegged the annual cost of the proposed cap-and-trade legislation in Congress at $400 per U.S. household. But estimating the cost of doing nothing is far more difficult.Sergey Paltsev, a principal research scientist in MIT&rsquo;s Joint Program on the Science...]]></description>
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				<title>October 23, 2009 -- Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says</title>
				<description><![CDATA[New analysis shows that without proper regulation, biofuels programs aimed at curbing greenhouse gases could do just the opposite  A global push toward production of biofuels, advocated by many as a measure to curb greenhouse gas emissions, could have exactly the opposite effect unless adequate controls are put in place, a new study has found. Because forests, which remove...]]></description>
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				<title>October 2, 2009 -- How to limit risk of climate catastrophe</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Comprehensive analysis of the odds of climate outcomes under different policy scenarios shows significant benefits from early actions. A new analysis of climate risk, published by the MIT Global Change Program, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. It also shows that quick, global emissions...]]></description>
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				<title>August 17, 2009 -- A hard rain's gonna fall</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Analysis shows climate change to yield more extreme rainfall &mdash; Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns. But the increase in extreme downpours is not uniformly spread around the world, the analysis shows.  Overall, previous studies have...]]></description>
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				<title>June 22, 2009 -- Greenhouse gases made visible</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Fed by MIT data, display shows extent of human-caused emissions The latest ominous number to appear on the side of a New York building is a real-time count of the tons of carbon dioxide (and equivalents of other greenhouse gases) emitted each day, based on MIT calculations. The 70-foot-tall...]]></description>
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				<title>May 19, 2009 -- Climate change odds much worse than thought</title>
				<description><![CDATA[New analysis shows warming could be double previous estimates. The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago &mdash; and could be even worse than that. The study uses the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=76</link>
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				<title>March 11, 2009 -- New greenhouse gas identified</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Early detection may permit 'nipping it in the bud' &mdash;  A gas used for fumigation has the potential to contribute significantly to future greenhouse warming, but because its production has not yet reached high levels there is still time to nip this potential contributor in the bud, according to an international team of researchers. Scientists at MIT, the Scripps Institution of...]]></description>
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				<title>March 10, 2009 -- Children's book illuminates photosynthesis</title>
				<description><![CDATA[An MIT ocean microbiologist and a Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator have teamed up to produce a lavishly illustrated children's book that explains how the sun creates life on Earth through photosynthesis. Penny Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Civil and...]]></description>
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				<title>January 1, 2009 -- The Cost of Cutting Carbon</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Will putting a price on carbon increase the use of renewables?  &mdash; The cheapest way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is probably to put a price on them. One way to do that is a direct tax. Another is a cap-and-trade system, where the government sets an overall cap on emissions, but indi&shy;vidual businesses trade emission allowances. But surprisingly, a carbon penalty may do little...]]></description>
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				<title>January 1, 2009 -- Carbon Tax Q &amp; A</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A leading economist explains why a carbon tax is the best strategy for cutting greenhouse gases and the use of fossil fuels. &mdash; Many economists argue that painful though it might be to consumers, the best way to address climate change is to put a &quot;price&quot; on carbon dioxide and other carbon-based emissions, thereby making fossil fuels more expensive and alternative energy...]]></description>
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				<title>November 17, 2008 -- A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner</title>
				<description><![CDATA['Partial capture' of emissions could be near-term move &mdash; Construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States is in danger of coming to a standstill, partly due to the high cost of the requirement -- whether existing or anticipated -- to capture all emissions of carbon dioxide, an important greenhouse gas. But an MIT analysis suggests an intermediate step that could get...]]></description>
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				<title>November 13, 2008 -- MIT analysis shows how cap-and-trade plans can cut greenhouse emissions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Researchers at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research have produced a report concerning key design issues of proposed "cap-and-trade" programs that are under consideration in the United States as a way of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The first contribution of the three-part study found that, based on an examination of the European Union's system and of similar U.S....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=63</link>
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				<title>October 29, 2008 -- Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again</title>
				<description><![CDATA[According to a team led by MIT researchers, the amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable. Methane levels in the atmosphere have more than tripled since pre-industrial times, accounting for around one-fifth of the human contribution to greenhouse gas-driven...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=62</link>
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				<title>October 3, 2008 -- MIT creates Environmental Research Council</title>
				<description><![CDATA[MIT has announced the launch of the Environmental Research Council to elevate and expand the Institute's leadership in this critical area of study. The goal is to create a robust Institute-wide collaboration comparable to the MIT Energy Initiative. Global Change Program participants on the council include professors Entekhabi (chair of the council), Prinn, Greenstone, Chisholm, Marshall, and...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=61</link>
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				<title>September 8, 2008 -- Weather cycles: Group gears up for climate change awareness ride</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A group of MIT-affiliated cyclists hope to fuel themselves from New York to Washington in a few weeks to raise awareness -- and money -- for climate change initiatives. The nine graduate students, researchers and friends are all planning to take part in the Climate Ride 2008, a five-day, 320-mile ride from the Big Apple to the nation's capital that symbolizes the nation's need to get out of the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=58</link>
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				<title>September 1, 2008 -- Richard Schmalensee is the new Director of CEEPR</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Richard Schmalensee takes over as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) as of September 2008. Most recently, Prof. Schmalensee served as the Dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He had a previous stint as the Director of CEEPR from 1991 to 1999....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=57</link>
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				<title>August 20, 2008 -- Understanding climate change complacency</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Sloan's Sterman sees flawed reasoning at root of problem. Why is the general public not more concerned about the potential consequences of climate change? For many risks, such as the risk of a plane crash, the public is far more fearful than the evidence shows, observes John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. But on the issue of...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=55</link>
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				<title>July 1, 2008 -- MIT expert: Don't count on long-term success in climate policy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Says policy-making requires ambitious short-term goals. Long-term climate change policy in the United States and abroad is likely to change very slowly, warns an MIT professor who says the lack of future flexibility argues for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=52</link>
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				<title>July 1, 2008 -- Prof. Mort Webster Receives $750K NSF Grant</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ESD Assistant Professor Mort David Webster has been named Principal Investigator of a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Human and Social Dynamics Program. The grant's other investigators are Henry D. Jacoby, Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Climate Change; Karen Fisher-Vanden and Chris Forest of Penn State University; and David...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=60</link>
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				<title>June 19, 2008 -- MIT analysts say European system for cutting CO2 emissions is working well</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Lessons to be learned for U.S., globe. In a bid to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the European Union has been operating the world's first system to limit and to trade carbon dioxide. Despite its hasty adoption and somewhat rocky beginning three years ago, the EU &quot;cap-and-trade&quot; system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=51</link>
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				<title>April 28, 2008 -- Mapping Earth's soil moisture</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Entekhabi to lead science team for NASA satellite mission Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=54</link>
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				<title>April 17, 2008 -- New MIT study validates hurricane prediction</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Provides confirmation that climate change intensifies storms Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=53</link>
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				<title>January 1, 2008 -- Wheel of Global Fortune</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A leader in documenting man-made climate change, MIT's Ronald Prinn has also made it his business to inform world leaders--and the public--about the risks of ignoring it....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=40</link>
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				<title>November 13, 2007 -- Study sees potential for acceleration in U.S. emissions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, even with technological advances and current energy-saving efforts, according to a new study on The Implications of the Historical Decline in U.S. Energy Intensity for Long-Run CO2 Emission Projections, by MIT Global Change Joint...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=41</link>
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				<title>October 26, 2007 -- Human-generated ozone will damage crops, according to MIT study - Could reduce production by more than 10 percent by 2100</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A novel study by the MIT Global Change Joint Program concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy. The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide and ozone) associated with human...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=42</link>
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				<title>October 11, 2007 -- Biofuels report warns of strain on water resources</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Boosting ethanol production by growing more corn in the United States without considering the quality and availability of water by region could put a significant strain on water resources in some parts of the country, a committee of the National Research Council said in a report released this week....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=43</link>
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				<title>July 10, 2007 -- U.S. Climate Change Science Program Report Released: Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy, this Synthesis and Assessment 2.1 report is titled Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations, and Review of Integrated Scenario Development and Application, and provides a new long-term, global reference for greenhouse gas stabilization scenarios and an evaluation of...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=35</link>
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				<title>July 5, 2007 -- MIT CEEPR a winner in inaugural climate change grants</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research is one of six organizations to receive support in the first round of grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as part of its $100 million initiative to tackle global climate change....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=36</link>
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				<title>June 26, 2007 -- MIT model compares environmental, economic effects of emissions bills</title>
				<description><![CDATA[While Congress considers seven bills that aim to limit America's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, MIT researchers have offered an analysis of the legislation based on a powerful model they created. The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change applied its model to the seven bills to determine how costs associated with each might affect the domestic economy....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=37</link>
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				<title>May 1, 2007 -- Planning for a climate-changed world</title>
				<description><![CDATA[As the global picture grows grimmer, states and cities are searching for the fine-scale predictions they need to prepare for emergencies--and to keep the faucets running. "The challenge is to increase our capability to accurately forecast climate at the regional level," says Ronald Prinn, an atmospheric scientist who directs the Center for Global Change Science at MIT. "That is what is needed in...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=38</link>
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				<title>March 29, 2007 -- Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing - Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=44</link>
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				<title>March 29, 2007 -- MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes</title>
				<description><![CDATA[A new program to develop computational models of how marine microbes live and evolve in the global ocean has been launched to help researchers understand and simulate the relationships between climate change, marine ecosystems and the ocean carbon cycle. The collaborative effort is led by Mick Follows, and includes participants Penny Chisholm, Stephanie Dutkeiwicz, John Marshall and Chris Hill,...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=59</link>
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				<title>March 26, 2007 -- U.S. Congressional testimony on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Dr. Denny Ellerman participated in a Hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy &amp; Natural Resources to discuss the progress of the European Union&rsquo;s Emissions Trading Scheme and to receive information on lessons learned for policymakers who want to better understand how a market-based trading program could operate efficiently and effectively in the United States. (A transcript of the...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=45</link>
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				<title>February 28, 2007 -- U.S. Congressional testimony on climate change - Energy and Tax Policy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Prof. Ronald Prinn participated in a Hearing of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the first in a series on energy and tax policy, which focused on climate change. (Hearing transcript.)]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=46</link>
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				<title>February 13, 2007 -- U.S. Congressional testimony on the Stern Review of the economics of climate change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Prof. Henry Jacoby participated in a Hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change, examining the economic impacts of climate change and stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere....]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=47</link>
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				<title>February 2, 2007 -- IPCC Report: Human activity fuels global warming</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Today's release of a widely anticipated international report on global warming coincides with a growing clamor within the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the potentially devastating consequences of global climate change. &quot;There's clear evidence that greenhouse gases have been increasing by very large amounts since preindustrial times, and the vast majority of...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=49</link>
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				<title>February 1, 2007 -- Measuring the uncertainty of climate change</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Better models are rapidly defining the uncertainties ahead, says leading climate scientist Ronald Prinn. - The most definitive scientific assessment of global warming to date, a report released earlier this month from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded with &quot;very high confidence&quot; that humans are contributing significantly to global warming. The report also...]]></description>
				<link>http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=48</link>
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				<title>January 24, 2006 -- Driving Force: Climate Change and Energy Policy</title>
				<description><![CDATA[There's one basic answer to the question, Why are we worried about energy? The answer is climate change, argues MIT's Ron Prinn: if there were no global warming threat associated with fuels like oil and coal, there'd be no crisis....]]></description>
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