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erupting volcano
News Release
MIT News | Feb 23, 2014
Alli Gold Roberts MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change By the late 1990s, scientists had observed more than two decades of rapid global warming, and expected the warming trend to continue. Instead, despite continuing increases in greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth’s surface...
2014 IAP
Commentary
MIT News | Feb 10, 2014
In climate change, science and policy are inextricably linked—more so than in most contemporary social phenomena. The complexity of understanding earth’s systems generates uncertainty, which feeds into an imperfect policy process that often warps ideal economic instruments beyond recognition....
2014 IAP
In The News
MIT News | Feb 05, 2014
Genevieve Wanucha Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate IAP 2014 was bone-chilling, and thanks to 12.310, An Introduction to Weather Forecasting, 20 new amateur forecasters can tell you why. Always offered between semesters, 12.310 reveals the principles of fluid dynamics that govern the...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Feb 03, 2014
By Michael Davidson It is quite a challenge to pin down an electricity system that has grown 10.8 percent annually over the last decade, doubled power generation in just 7 years and added 80-90 gigawatts (GW) – the equivalent of the United Kingdom’s entire generating capacity –every year....
black carbon
News Release
MIT News | Jan 28, 2014
Alli Gold Roberts MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Black carbon is one of the most potent air pollutants that contributes to global climate change, and is produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and forest fires. While scientists have known about the role...
In The News
The Global Young Academy (GYA) is an international group of two hundred young (up to ten years post PhD) scientists selected based on research excellence and commitment to impact. Through GYA, members are linked to the senior international academy network ...
In The News
By Michael Craig, Amanda Giang, Colin Thackray â€¨ What’s the difference between climate change, the Northern spotted owl, and acid rain? That question is not the beginning of a bad joke. Rather, it was the type of question that lay at the heart of the class ‘Science, Politics, and Environmental...
climate science
In The News
MIT News | Jan 21, 2014
In many public discussions of climate change, science takes a back seat to political agendas and rhetoric. But 12.340x (Global Warming Science), a new massive open online course from MITx now open for enrollment...
Paltsev
In The News
Gaidar Forum | Jan 21, 2014
Sergey Paltsev, assistant director for economic research at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, presented at the 2014 Gaidar Forum entitled "Russia and the World: Sustainable Development." The expert discussion “Green growth” and sustainable development” was dedicated...
Davidson
In The News
Channel News Asia | Jan 21, 2014
Channel News Asia interviews Michael Davidson on the Business Central show. Michael Davidson is Research Assistant for the China Energy and Climate Project and a doctoral student in the Engineering Systems Division.

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