CS3 In the Media

A discussion centered on tipping points--what they mean in the short- and long-term, how we can use them to our advantage, and why our guests (and probably most scientists) hate using the phrase at all--with MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris and CS3 Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser. (Boston College Creative Communication Lab)

For the Philippines, the findings--published in a paper co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel--raise the possibility of improving grid efficiency while new power plants and transmission projects are being developed (The Daily Tribune)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel joined this podcast to discuss the costs and benefits of clean energy. "We should continue to subsidize rooftop solar, but we should do it in a way that's not regressive, that is not leaning harder on those homes that cannot install solar," Knittel said. (Climate One)

The state’s 18 million acres of forest, the largest unfragmented tract in the eastern U.S., offsets at least 60 percent of Maine’s overall greenhouse gas emissions annually. But the use of large areas of forest as carbon sinks is more complex when businesses also depend on these areas for timber, says MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram. (Inside Climate News)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram said getting natural gas into Massachusetts is crucial to address winter shortages. "Clean energy will help us break the dependence on these volatile fossil fuels, but it's going to take a while for clean energy projects to get built and for relief to show up," Wolfram said. (Boston Globe)

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)

Residential solar, by contrast, raises costs for non-solar customers, a situation that can be addressed through changes in rate design, finds MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel and study co-author (Commonwealth Beacon)

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)