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![Photo: Robert van der Hilst moderates the symposium's day-two panel consisting of Sir Brian Hoskins, Inez Fung, Kerry Emanuel, Allison Wing and John Bush. (Photo by Lauren Hinkel) MIT-Chaos-Climate-Symposium-2018-panel-2-MIT-00.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Chaos-Climate-Symposium-2018-panel-2-MIT-00.jpg?itok=N4ur8uAO)
Trailblazing scientists Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research
Lauren Hinkel | Oceans at MIT February 14, 2018
Our understanding of atmospheric and climate dynamics, as well as weather prediction and its limits, would not be what it is today without advances in the fundamental science of modern meteorology that took place at MIT in the post WWII era...
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How might climate change affect the acidification of the world’s oceans or air quality in China and india in the coming decades, and what climate policies could be effective in minimizing such impacts? To answer such questions, decision-makers routinely rely on science-based projections of...
![Photo: Maps depict the close correlation of crop production, rainfall and temperature in the U.S. Midwest in the last half of the 20th century. In this map, the number of bushels of corn produced are shown in shades of green. (Source: Courtesy of researchers) MIT-Agriculture-Climate-01 (1).jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Agriculture-Climate-01%20%281%29.jpg?itok=1VUR8VVG)
An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office February 13, 2018
Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world’s climate systems. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and Dartmouth College...
![Photo: The co-directors of MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research are (left) Christopher Knittel, the George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Francis O'Sullivan, director of research for the MIT Energy Initiative. Knittel photo courtesy of MIT Sloan; O'Sullivan photo: Dominick Reuter Center-Electric-Power-Systems-OSullivan-Knittel-headshots-MIT-00_WEB - Copy.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Center-Electric-Power-Systems-OSullivan-Knittel-headshots-MIT-00_WEB%20-%20Copy.jpg?itok=2PGvNVCm)
Francis O’Sullivan and Christopher Knittel, co-directors of the MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research, are exploring cleaner, more reliable, and more cost-effective solutions
Kathryn M. O'Neill | MIT Energy Initiative February 2, 2018
![Photo: On January 16-19 and 31, eight Joint Program-affiliated graduate students delivered presentations during the 2018 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP). Student presenters included (left to right) Ellen Lalk, Meghana Ranganathan, Warittha Panasawatwong, Ali Ramadhan and Sika Gadzanku. (Photo by Dimonika Bray) DSC_1411_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/DSC_1411_WEB_0.jpg?itok=Hj-5TVcB)
Amid much uncertainty about the future of the global climate and efforts aimed at preventing its most damaging impacts, graduate students affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change are hard at work exploring some of the challenges and possible solutions that...
Short-term variability and long-term change in climate pose a challenge to water planners. Some climate uncertainties can be reduced over time as new information is collected, while others are irreducible. This presentation shows how flexible water-supply infrastructure planning can help...
![Photo: On January 25, the MIT Climate Action Team organized a carbon-pricing panel that included Massachusetts State Senator Michael Barrett, State Representative Jennifer Benson, ClimateXchange Research and Policy Director Marc Breslow, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Associate Professor Janelle Knox-Hayes, Joint Program Co-Director and Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer John Reilly, and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) Director and Sloan Professor Christopher Knittel. DSC03014_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/DSC03014_WEB.jpg?itok=ccikAFsz)
Many economists across the political spectrum agree that carbon pricing could provide a cost-effective strategy to accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce carbon emissions that play a key role in global climate change. Drawing on their research, legislators in several states...
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Hunkered down at 11 tables at Harvard Law School on January 17, more than 100 business, sustainability and emergency-management professionals spent three hours simulating how they might coordinate a response in the aftermath of a major hurricane in the City of Cambridge.
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MIT Joint Program-affiliated researcher and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) PhD student Sarah Fletcher has won a 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Paper Award for her paper, “Urban water supply infrastructure planning under predictive groundwater...
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MIT Joint Program-affiliated researchers Noelle Selin and Amanda Giang contribute to multidisciplinary study of regulatory impacts on Great Lakes mercury
By Allison Mills | Published 10:00 AM, January 23, 2018
A transdisciplinary team examined regulatory impacts on Great Lakes mercury, focusing on an Upper Peninsula tribal community with high fish consumption.