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ClimateWire, via Scientific American | Mar 02, 2015
ClimateWire article: Plans to clean up China's air may increase emissions of carbon dioxide.
ClimateWire via Scientific American
China's efforts to improve urban air...
Feb 25, 2015
John Marshall, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Director of MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative, spoke with the MIT Club of Northern California about the role oceans play in global climate change.
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MIT News | Feb 17, 2015
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.
Cassie Martin | Oceans at MIT
Understanding how oceans absorb and cycle carbon is crucial to understanding its role in climate change. For approximately 50 years, scientists have known there exists a large pool of dissolved carbon in the deep ocean, but they didn’t know much about it — such as the...
Commentary
USA Today | Feb 15, 2015
We can expect oil prices to remain low for the for the forseeable future, writes John Reilly in a column for USA Today.
John M. Reilly | Co-director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Worldwide, people are learning to live with less gas, but that's a habit hard to keep.
The price of oil has fallen nearly 60% since peaking in June, and lately there's been a lot of ink and pixels devoted to...
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MIT Energy Initiative | Feb 11, 2015
As one of the ten panels open to the public at the upcoming MIT Energy Club Conference, MIT energy economist Christopher Knittel will explore the future of shale gas with fellow experts in the field.
Francesca McCaffrey | MIT Energy Initiative
Leaders from the energy industry, government, and the scientific community will gather to discuss the world’s most pressing energy challenges at the annual MIT Energy Club Conference, to be held February 27-28 on the MIT campus. Developed and organized...
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MIT News | Feb 11, 2015
MIT graduate students brush up on the fundamentals of climate science and policy
Photo: Paul Kishimoto
by Audrey Resutek | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Graduate students from the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change taught a series of...
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Boston Globe | Feb 04, 2015
MIT Prof. Paul O'Gorman talks with the Boston Globe about how climate change could affect snowfall.
By Carolyn Y. Johnson | Boston Globe
When a historic blizzard dumps a record-breaking amount of snow on the region, it’s only a matter of time before someone ventures a wry joke about climate change. Maybe there’s an upside to a warmer world, after all? Less shoveling.
But the halfhearted punchline...
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MIT News | Jan 26, 2015
Alumnus and prominent conservationist Larry Linden calls for carbon tax to combat global warming."
By David L. Chandler
Photo credit: Bryce Vickmark
MIT News Office
After a career that included work as a White House advisor in the Carter administration and as a partner at Goldman Sachs, Larry Linden SM ’70, PhD ’76 has turned his attention to what he says is the most critical issue facing...
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MIT News | Jan 26, 2015
MIT professor is lead scientist on three-year mission to study how soil, water, and carbon interact.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
Dara Entekhabi, an MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering and of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, is the science team leader of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite,...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
Between the Lines | Jan 22, 2015
Valerie J. Karplus, Director of the China Energy and Climate Project, discusses the impacts and broader significance of the just-launched Korean emissions trading system on Channel NewsAsia’s Between the Lines.
China Energy and Climate Project Director Professor Valerie J. Karplus appeared on Channel NewsAsia to discuss the impacts and broader significance of the Korean emissions trading system...