CS3 In the News

Inaugural event for MIT’s climate action groups showcases ways the Institute is reaching outside its walls to make new contributions on climate change

MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly explains why solar panels reduce more emissions than trees (WGBH)

Six campus events to focus on the urgent challenges of climate change and climate action

In MIT talk, Lord Nicholas Stern calls the next 20 years “absolutely defining” for society

Joint Program extreme-weather-event modeling method featured in Scientific Computing World article on weather prediction

Climate policies around the globe remain woefully inadequate, says MIT CEEPR Deputy Director Michael Mehling (Washington Post)

Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes

Susan Solomon’s research pinpointed how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole—and later showed that the Montreal Protocol is helping to mend it. She’s convinced we can make progress on addressing climate change, too. (Technology Review)

Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly: Climate change one of multiple factors making wildfires, and hence air quality, worse (PolitiFact)

MIT Joint Program Founding Co-Director Henry Jacoby and co-authors call for a more focused approach that does not bundle climate policy with multiple social objectives

Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation

As machine learning expands into climate modeling, EAPS Associate Professor Paul O’Gorman answers what that looks like and why it's important now