Energiewende: German Angst or Bold Step Ahead?
Energiewende: German Angst or Bold Step Ahead?
Joschka Fischer Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1998-2005 Germany is a highly industrialized country and with its recent decision to eliminate nuclear energy, it has the potential to become a model for how a carbon-free economy without nuclear ...
Doctoral student Timothy Cronin asks how plants affect our ...
Doctoral student Timothy Cronin asks how plants affect our climate
Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in ...
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in climate change
Recently promoted from post-doc to research scientist, Dr. Erwan Monier works on quantifying uncertainty in future climate change using model simulations. "There are a lot of things about the earth system that we don't know," explains Erwan, "We have to take ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the ...
The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge
04/21/2011 3:00 PM Wong AuditoriumTodd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of StateDescription: With frightening evidence for climate change mounting around the globe, from droughts and massive forest fires to melting glaciers and rising sea ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of ...
03/29/2011 4:00 PM Noelle Eckley Selin, Assistant Professor; Engineering Systems Division; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDescription: It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin ...
Master's student Caleb Waugh studies the impact of air ...
Master's student Caleb Waugh studies the impact of air pollutant emission ...
fall, Caleb Waugh will graduate with a Masters degree from the Technology and Policy Program at MIT. His research focuses on the impact of alternative vehicles--such as hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles--on emissions of greenhouse gases and air quality pollutants, and ...
Environmental Energy Economist Niven Winchester ...
Environmental Energy Economist Niven Winchester investigates the economic ...
A visiting scientist since June 2009, Niven Winchester has officially joined the Joint Program as an Environmental Energy Economist. A native of New Zealand, Niven broadly focuses his research on evaluating the economic costs and impacts of climate change policies and ...
Dan Rather Reports - March 1, 2011 - "Power Play"
Dan Rather Reports - March 1, 2011 - "Power Play"
Meet physics professor Ernest Moniz from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Moniz is not just a world-renowned scientist, but also an expert in policy who served in President Clinton's administration and now is on President Obama's council of advisers on ...
The Green Grease Project
The Green Grease Project
Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organized the Green Grease project to help garbage pickers in Brazil save money and be more environmentally friendly by retrofitting their transport vehicles. In summer 2010, the team traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
01/27/2011 3:45 PM KresgeNancy L. Rose, PhD '85, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT; Dennis W. Carlton, SM '74 PhD '75, Katherine Dusak Miller Professor of Economics,; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Richard Schmalensee, '65 ...
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
11/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Sanjay Sarma, Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Soon, after checking under the hood and kicking the tires, we will be scanning our car's on"board diagnostic system (OBD). Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on ...
11/09/2010 4:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan; Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political ...
Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi
Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi
David Simchi-Levi, a professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Department of Civil Engineering, discusses lowering greenhouse emissions generated by humans.
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in ...
10/25/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the PresidentDescription: In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of ...
Energy Innovation at Scale
Energy Innovation at Scale
09/22/2010 2:00 PM 32"123Steven E. Koonin, PhD '75, Undersecretary for Science, U.S. Department of EnergyDescription: The United States urgently needs a transformation of its energy supply both to address climate change and for reasons of energy security. To meet this immense challenge, the ...
The Future of Natural Gas - Interim Report Briefing
The Future of Natural Gas - Interim Report Briefing
Natural gas has moved to the center of the current debate on energy, security, and climate. The MIT Study on the Future of Natural Gas has examined the role of gas in a carbon-constrained world, with a topic horizon out to mid-century. On June 25, 2010 at the National ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
04/13/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Description: Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to Ian Waitz, it is also an area where ...