CS3 In the Media

Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability and J-WAFS/CS3-affiliated Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek featured in October issue of Miller Magazine (Miller Magazine)

The size of the hole in the stratosphere’s ozone layer fluctuates every year, but last month’s, measuring 10.6 million square miles, was especially large. However, longer term trends indicate that the ozone hole is slowly recovering as expected, says MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon. (Smithsonian Magazine)

A paper co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel argued that the administration's calculations contained major inconsistencies, such as in its assumptions about how consumers value the benefits of saving fuel. "If you do the analysis right, we found that revoking these standards does not save consumers money," said Knittel. (New York Times)

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – a development that MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram calls a 'huge step' (Eco-Business)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel highlights how climate change is being drowned out of the national cost-of-living debate, even as U.S. households already pay an estimated $400 to $900 a year in climate-related costs (Politico)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate John Sterman discusses AI’s potential and risks, and the role of public policy in steering the technology toward societal benefits, including climate solutions (Boston Globe)

MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon joins Cleo Abram’s “HUGE* If True” to discuss her 1985 research uncovering how chlorofluorocarbons were depleting the ozone layer, which led to the Montreal Protocol that banned the use of those chemicals. (“HUGE* If True)

Steel, cement, aluminum, and fertilizer sit behind a fifth of global emissions, and a carbon price floor could raise $200 billion a year, finds Science study led by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram (Earth.com)

Commentary co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel argues for a mileage-based approach (WBUR)

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)