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Oceans at MIT | Mar 24, 2014
By Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
The ocean plays a critical role in climate change, especially in setting the climate's response to increasing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. As excess heat accumulates in various parts of the Earth system, most of that thermal energy goes into the...
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MIT News | Mar 05, 2014
Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, recently accepted the 2014 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his “fundamental insights into water mass transformation and deep convection and their implications for global...
News Release • China Energy & Climate Project
Link to Article | Mar 05, 2014
Alli Gold Roberts
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
China is the world’s second largest national economy and its largest exporter. This growth has come at a cost, with energy demands and associated environmental damages on the rise. China is now the world leader in...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Mar 04, 2014
Michael Davidson
MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project
According to tallies by the National Energy Administration, China added 14 gigawatts (GW) of grid-connected wind power capacity in 2013, now the fifth consecutive year with installs of over 10 GW (here, at a glance, is China’s grid in...
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MIT News | Feb 27, 2014
By Genevieve Wanucha
Oceans at MIT
Water has a lot of say in how Earth’s climate works. And scientists often acknowledge that the uncertainty about climate’s future trajectory comes from a lack of understanding of water. This intellectual challenge filled the better part of February 10-12 for 37...
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...
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....
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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....
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...