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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...
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MIT News | May 07, 2013
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...
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MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | May 06, 2013
According to a new study co-authored by Susan Solomon, as the planet warms, not only do Earth's climate zones keep shifting, they actually shift at an accelerating pace, giving species inhabiting each zone less time to adapt.
"The warmer climate gets, the faster the climate zones are shifting....
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MIT News | May 01, 2013
Researcher Eric Martinot presents findings of two-year project at campus event
Professor 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 “mainstream” and are “a...
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The Atlantic | Apr 29, 2013
By Charles C. Mann
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—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...
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MITEI | Apr 29, 2013
Earth Day talk details Massachusetts’ accomplishments since the governor’s MIT speech five years ago
By: David L. Chandler
April 29, 2013
Earth Day talk details Massachusetts’ accomplishments since the governor’s MIT speech five years ago, and outlines new goals.
In an Earth Day address at MIT in 2008, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick outlined an ambitious set of goals that he said could achieve...