Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) addresses fundamental questions about the environment and climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. The CGCS was founded in January 1990, and in 2006 became an independent center in the School of Science.
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Potential Climatic Impacts and Reliability of Very Large-Scale Wind Farms
Meeting future world energy needs while addressing climate change requires large-scale deployment of low or zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission technologies such as wind energy. The widespread availability of wind power has fueled legitimate interest in this renewable energy source as one of the needed technologies. For very large-scale utilization of this resource, there are however potential environmental impacts, and also problems arising from its inherent intermittency, in addition to the present need to lower unit costs.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 26 June 2009 | Download | Comment on this
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The Cost of Climate Policy in the United States
We consider the cost of meeting emissions reduction targets consistent with a G8 proposal of a 50 percent global reduction in emissions by 2050, and an Obama Administration proposal of an 80 percent reduction over this period. We apply the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA), modeling these two policy scenarios if met by applying a national cap-and-trade system, and compare results with an earlier EPPA analysis of reductions of this stringency.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 26 June 2009 | Download | Comment on this
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Designing a U.S. Market for CO2
The United States may soon have a market for carbon. If so, that market will grow out of a cap-and-trade system like the EU's Emissions Trading System for CO2 or the U.S. Acid Rain Program for SO2. This article reviews the historical performance of these two markets, with particular focus on how the flexibility afforded by, as well as restrictions on, the "banking" and borrowing of allowances has affected the evolution of prices.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 02 April 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this
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Revised MIT climate model sounds alarm
The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago — and could be even worse than that.
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 20 May 2009 | Download | Comment on this