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Embedded within the climate system are many nonlinear feedback systems and possible tipping points , making prediction of future climate difficult. Co-leaders of this session discuss such mechanisms of the climate system; Earth-system models; the role of clouds, oceans, land cover and biology in the climate system; and how extreme weather relates to climate change.

Climate Science 102: Climate feedbacks and tipping points (Ali Ramadhan and Warittha Panasawatwong)

In order to develop effective strategies to combat climate change, policymakers must be able to address the economics of implementation, risk uncertainty and information assessment. This session provides a brief overview of these tools and their relationship to the foundation of climate policy.

Climate change: The nexus of economics and policy (Sika Gadzanku and Anthony Fratto Oyler)

An overview of climate science: what comprises climate, relevant factors in the climate system, and how the climate has changed in the past versus how it is changing now.

Climate Science 101: Warmer things (Ellen Lalk and Meghana Ranganathan)

XLI MIT Global Change Forum Sponsor Agenda

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 are now working to enact bills that impose a per-ton fee on carbon emitters, but it’s no easy task to win political support for such measures.

Is Massachusetts ready for carbon pricing?

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.

Flood risk under an uncertain future climate

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 uncertainty: Bayesian updating and flexible design.” Granted to the top five percent of student participants, the award inc

Sarah Fletcher receives 2017 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

Joint Program-affiliated researcher Sarah Fletcher, other MIT grad students/postdocs discuss water resource challenges.

J-WAFS IAP Seminar: Water Management for Future Climate Scenarios

The big picture of Great Lakes mercury pollution

A primer for understanding climate science