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A Slice of MIT | Jun 12, 2013
By Joe McGonegal
June 12, 2013
On the slopes of Mt. Karisimbi, a 4,500-meter volcano in northwestern Rwanda, a lone MIT researcher is working this year to add new data to climate change research.
She is Katherine Potter PhD ’11, the principal investigator for the new Rwanda Climate Observatory....
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MIT News | Jun 12, 2013
"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
A version of this quote, originally penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” appears in a dog-eared copy of “Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists...
Oceans at MIT | Jun 10, 2013
The Keeling Curve record from the NOAA-operated Mauna Loa Observatory shows that the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration hovers around 400 ppm, a level not seen in more than 3 million years when sea levels were as much as 80 feet higher than...
News Release
MITEI | Jun 06, 2013
June 6, 2013
Vicki Ekstrom, MIT Energy Initiative
The cost and performance of future energy technologies will largely determine to what degree nations are able to reduce the effects of climate change. ...
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MIT Tech Review | May 30, 2013
Last week, the new U.S. secretary of energy, Ernest Moniz, pledged to continue his predecessor’s work in making the Department of Energy a “center of innovation,” while also highlighting projects he thought deserved more attention. Near the top of his list is a renewed emphasis on carbon dioxide...
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MITEI | May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013Vicki Ekstrom, MIT Energy Initiative
In the past decade, the massive expansion of China’s production and export of silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells and panels has cratered the price of those items globally, creating tension between China and the United States, and, more recently, China...
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Quartz | May 24, 2013
By: Steve LeVine
Environmental websites are buzzing that China, the world’s biggest emitter of carbon and other heat-trapping gases, is on the cusp of breaking the persistent logjam on global climate change policy by placing an absolute cap on its carbon emissions. Beijing’s impending move, writes...
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New York Times Dot Earth Blog | May 22, 2013
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
MAY 22, 2013
As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human-driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms. The focus on the ground in Oklahoma, of...
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MIT News | May 09, 2013
Cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles, study finds.
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National Journal | May 09, 2013
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’s blind ideology. “I had friends who denied Pol Pot was killing people in Cambodia,” he says. “I reacted very badly to the triumph of ideology...