News & Media: Modeling and Data

CS3-affiliated work on carbon dioxide removal and climate change uncertainty among recent titles from Institute faculty and staff (MIT News)

Climate scenarios, such as RCPs and SSPs, are tools used to explore different possible futures as the world economy evolves and the climate changes in response. MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris explains how they can advance understanding of climate risk and inform decision-making. (MIT Climate Portal)

Inside the demise of a 15-year-old modeling scenario built off the worst possibilities scientists could imagine, with insights from MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris (E&E News by Politico) 

No—climate scientists are careful to remove the signal of urban warming from the global temperature record. Even in the raw, unadjusted data, urban heat islands explain a very small fraction of the global climate change we have observed. MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser explains. (MIT Climate Portal)

MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris explains how economists estimate the dollar costs of a warming planet, and how the tools of economics can help us plan for a better, more prosperous future, even in the face of uncertainty (MIT Climate Portal)

Lecture series explores the science of climate change and policies to stabilize the global climate (MIT Open Learning)

Unfortunately, we don’t know. The risks are severe, and grow worse the longer we wait to address them, but climate scientists and economists are very far from agreeing on an exact dollar cost. MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris explains. (MIT Climate Portal)