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Washington Post
His administration cherry-picked my group's findings to help make their case.
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Wall Street Journal
Joint Program co-directors to Wall St. Journal: Your editorial references our research to draw what we consider to be the exact wrong conclusion about the importance of the Paris Agreement to addressing climate change.
In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Prof. Ron Prinn and John Reilly, co-directors of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, explain why their research shows the importance of the Paris climate agreement. “Paris provides an unprecedented framework for global cooperation on this serious threat. In our view, U.S. withdrawal from it is a grave mistake.”
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Correcting the record on the US President's reference to MIT research
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MIT Joint Program-affiliated Professor Susan Solomon (EAPS) co-authors study in Nature Scientific Reports
Researchers published a scientific paper that explicitly refutes an assertion by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on climate change. Related Links: Popular Science EnviroNews
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The Energy Collective
MIT Joint Program research has "demonstrated that even a modest attempt to mitigate emissions could profoundly affect the risk profile for equilibrium surface temperature"
A forthcoming book by MIT Joint Program sponsor representative David Hone, Putting the Genie Back: Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma, draws on MIT Joint Program research on climate probability and uncertainty.
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Intensification of extreme rainfall varies from region to region, study shows
Study co-authored by Joint Program affiliate Paul O'Gorman shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of the world will increase in intensity by 3-15%, depending on region, for every degree Celsius that the planet warms. Additional Coverage: Eco-Business
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Associate Professor Paul O'Gorman, an MIT Joint Program-affiliated researcher, describes three questions climate scientists recently suggested should frame the future of climate research
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Climate data analyst Thomas Karl describes global temperature and precipitation measurement and interpretation in the 16th Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
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Climate change could lead to overall increase in river flow, but more droughts and floods, study shows
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New study in PNAS co-authored by MIT Joint Program Co-Director Ronald Prinn pinpoints possible cause of a sudden, unexpected global rise in atmospheric methane in 2007
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