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News Release
Apr 10, 2019
Key takeaways from the XLII (42nd) MIT Global Change Forum
The pace of global change poses multiple risks to communities and ecosystems, but also presents unprecedented opportunities to address those risks and cultivate a more resilient and prosperous future.
In The News
Scientific Computing World | Apr 03, 2019
Joint Program extreme-weather-event modeling method featured in Scientific Computing World article on weather prediction
In The News
Washington Post | Mar 26, 2019
Climate policies around the globe remain woefully inadequate, says MIT CEEPR Deputy Director Michael Mehling (Washington Post)
“We are headed for disaster, and nobody seems to be able to slow things down,” a Stanford University professor said.
Around Campus
MIT News | Mar 20, 2019
Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes
Kelsey Tsipis | EAPS March 20, 2019
Oceanographers studying the physics of the global ocean have long found themselves facing a conundrum: Fluid dynamical balances can vary greatly from point to point, rendering it difficult to make global generalizations.
In The News
Technology Review | Mar 19, 2019
Susan Solomon’s research pinpointed how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole—and later showed that the Montreal Protocol is helping to mend it. She’s convinced we can make progress on addressing climate change, too. (Technology Review)
by Amanda Schaffer
February 27, 2019
News Brief
Mar 11, 2019
Studies advance natural resource risk assessment, economic modeling and infrastructure resilience
MIT Joint Program researchers have recently won awards and honors for two peer-reviewed journal papers, a Joint Program Report and a PhD thesis.
In The News
PolitiFact | Mar 08, 2019
Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly: Climate change one of multiple factors making wildfires, and hence air quality, worse (PolitiFact)
By Tom Kertscher on Friday, March 8th, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.
News Brief
MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Mar 05, 2019
EAPS/IDSS Associate Professor Noelle Selin, a Joint Program faculty affiliate, coauthored the technical background document, contributing to the modeling chapter (5) with former postdocs, including the Joint Program's Sae Yun Kwon
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News
Monday, March 4, 2019
UN Environment just published the Global Mercury Assessment 2018, which includes mercury emission estimates by sector and country, as well as info on mercury fate and transport in the environment and levels in air, water, biota and...
Commentary
Hartford Courant | Mar 01, 2019
MIT Joint Program Founding Co-Director Henry Jacoby and co-authors call for a more focused approach that does not bundle climate policy with multiple social objectives
By GARY YOHE , RICHARD RICHELS and HENRY JACOBY
| HARTFORD COURANT |
MAR 01, 2019 | 6:00 AM
News Release
MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Feb 22, 2019
Experts assess potential global destabilization caused by climate change impacts on water supplies, land use, and migration
Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory February 22, 2019
Scientists can, to varying degrees of accuracy, model the climate. They can predict the rate at which greenhouse gas emissions grow, sea levels rise, and ocean temperatures warm. It is also possible to predict the direct impacts...