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MIT News | Feb 18, 2020
Study finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide (Coverage: Xinhua)
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office February 17, 2020
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SHARE COMMENTHistorically, the oceans have done much of the planet’s heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known collectively as phytoplankton, which...
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New York Times | Feb 14, 2020
Residential and commercial emissions are now the leading cause of cross-state early deaths (New York Times) (More: CNN, Reuters, USA Today, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, Scientific American, USNWR, PopSci, Forbes)
By Henry Fountain
Feb. 12, 2020
Commentary
The Conversation | Feb 12, 2020
Joint Program researchers call for ongoing investigation of, stricter controls on U.S. cross-state air pollution (The Conversation) (Republished in Salon)
Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades.
As it turns out, much of this pollution originates not in a person’s own neighborhood, but up to hundreds or even thousands of miles away in neighboring...
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MIT News | Feb 12, 2020
Study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office February 12, 2020
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SHARE COMMENTMore than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report today in the...
News Brief
Global Futures Project | Feb 12, 2020
Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev serves as expert reviewer of new report for government and business decision-makers
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MIT Climate | Feb 06, 2020
In ten-minute MIT Climate podcast, MIT energy economist John Reilly demystifies fossil fuels
Fossil fuels -- coal, natural gas, and oil -- provide the large majority of our power in the United States and around the world. In this episode of TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate), John Reilly of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change joins host Laur...
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MIT Energy Initiative | Feb 04, 2020
MIT Energy Initiative podcast features Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly and faculty affiliate Noelle Selin
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John Reilly, senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School and co-director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Noelle Selin, associate professor, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
News Release
Jan 25, 2020
MIT Professor Ronald Prinn presents highlights in science keynote at 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
MIT TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science Ronald Prinn described how the field of atmospheric chemistry has advanced from 1920 to 2020 in a core science keynote address at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, the world’s largest yearly gathering for experts in the...
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Jan 21, 2020
New method enables a more comprehensive assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture
The Science
Statistical emulators of global gridded crop models are designed to provide a far less computationally intensive way to assess the impact of climate change on crop yields. This study advances statistical emulators to provide an accessible tool to assess the impact of climate...
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University of Bristol | Jan 21, 2020
An international team of scientists, including Joint Program Co-Director Ronald Prinn, has found atmospheric levels of HFC-23 growing at record values (Coverage: The Guardian, Technology Review)
Press release issued: 21 January 2020
Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric...