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Noelle Selin, Amanda Giang share their perspective in The Conversation
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Katie Mulvaney - The 2016 Climate Policy 102 course surveys international, national and subnational climate governance, with an emphasis on COP21 and U.S. climate action plans.
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Katie Mulvaney - The 2016 Climate Policy 102 course surveys international, national and subnational climate governance, with an emphasis on COP21 and U.S. climate action plans.
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Sam Houston - The 2016 Climate Policy 101 course reviews policy options for climate mitigation, adaptation and geoengineering, and the tradeoffs involved.
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Megan Lickley - The 2016 Climate Change & Uncertainty course explores uncertainty in the rate of global warming, sea level rise and storm activity, and how uncertainty can propagate in climate models.
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Susan Solomon co-authors study in Nature Climate Change
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Now available online, sessions provide fast, accessible introduction to the field
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MIT-Tsinghua University project, publications advance U.S.-China climate cooperation
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Amanda Giang - The 2016 course Dispatches from Paris: Reflections on the COP21 Climate Talks featured a panel discussion with members of the MIT community who participated as observers at the Paris climate negotiations.
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Mara Freilich - The 2016 Mechanisms of Climate Change course covers feedbacks and interactions among the water cycle, clouds, aerosols and ocean circulation in the climate system.