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“Looking back, my interest in China developed out of spending a lot of time around people who were really passionate about the possibilities for their country,” Karplus says. “Working with colleagues in China over all of these years, I feel like the country has become a part of my own story.” ...
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Study shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models.
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MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev discusses the outlook for LNG trading over the next several decades.
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MIT China Energy and Climate Program Director Valerie Karplus talks with MIT’s Tech Review about when China’s emissions might peak.
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MIT News interviews Chris Knittel, who co-authored a new article in Science evaluating government's proposed emissions policy for power plants.
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In this column for the Washington Post Wonk Blog, Michael Levi describes the significance of U.S.-China climate agreement, and research that may have influenced the agreement
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The Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment tracks global emissions and atmospheric data, but lacks data on Africa. Jimmy Gasore, 4th-year MIT graduate student, is trying to change that.
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Learn how MIT researchers account for different sources of uncertainty in climate modeling, and what they're doing to reduce it.
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New committee aims to catalyze community discussion on how MIT can help address climate change.