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The 2014 Energy and Climate Outlook explores changes in global energy, climate, land and water systems, with an eye toward the outcome of the 2015 UN climate talks in Paris.
John Reilly at Polytechnique Montréal. Can renewables become the dominant source of electricity in Canada and the USA?
What is the observational evidence that the ocean has warmed in recent years, and how difficult is it to quantify? Oceans at MIT asks Carl Wunsch about the limits of our knowledge.
The Atlantic reports on an MIT study that concludes that cost of limiting carbon emissions would pay for itself in human health benefits.
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Study finds that savings from healthier air can make up for some or all of the cost of carbon reduction policies.
The Christian Science Monitor writes about an MIT climate change study released Sunday, indicating that the cost of slashing coal-fired carbon emissions would be offset by reduced spending on public health. The EPA-funded study examined climate change policies similar to those proposed by the Obama administration in June.
According to MIT researchers, ocean circulation explains why the Arctic feels the effects of global warming much more than the Antarctic.