News Releases

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate John Sterman and co-author of a forthcoming book chapter find that AI’s biggest climate threat isn’t the power draw of data centers — it’s the economic growth AI unleashes (MIT Sloan School of Management) (MIT Sloan Commentary: Can AI’s climate benefits outweigh its costs?)

MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientists Jennifer Morris and Angelo Gurgel to lead project that aims to enable decision-makers to assess potential economy-wide impacts of multiple decarbonization pathways (Schmidt Sciences)

A new MIT Sloan School of Management initiative co-led by Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel, aims to design the financial architecture needed to bring breakthrough climate innovations from technical promise to commercial scale (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Initial research projects to advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more. CS3 faculty affiliate Haruko Wainwright is the MIT lead on projects that leverage AI to improve energy-water security and radioactive waste storage. (MIT News)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Michael Howland and MIT co-authors of new Nature Energy study find that where new wind and solar energy projects are built could be key to avoiding blackouts in a future with hotter weather and other challenges (MIT News) (Coverage: OIlprice.com, Times of India)

The most comprehensive and rigorously quality-controlled ocean interior data product for marine biogeochemistry studies, GLODAPv3 enables quantitative assessment of biogeochemical changes and feedbacks between climate change and the ocean. MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Ryan Woosley contributed to this upgrade. (OceanICU) 

Using modern tools, MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon and co-authors also determined that carbon tetrachloride, used as a dry-cleaning and degreasing agent as early as the 1930s, was at the root of early ozone loss (MIT News) (Coverage: Gizmodo)

A new study co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel suggests flexibility in the timing of electricity consumption could lower consumer costs (MIT News)

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

MIT EAPS Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate recognized for "groundbreaking advances and leadership in atmospheric and climate sciences that shaped global policy for Sustainable Development” (MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) (Coverage: Taipei Times)