Recent Global Temperature Trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?

04/15/2015 @ 5:00 pm – Observations suggest a hiatus in global surface temperature rise since 1998, whereas most climate models simulate continued warming. What causes this difference? Do climate models respond too sensitively to the increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations such as that of CO2, and thus overestimate climate change systematically? Or has the discrepancy arisen by chance? And what is […]

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How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future? A Lecture by Dr. James Hansen

04/14/2015 @ 4:00 pm – Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. […]

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Compassion, Technology, & Environment | A Talk by the Karmapa

03/17/2015 @ 5:00 pm –   Gyalwang Karmapa is the head of the 900 year old Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world.In addition to being a scholar and meditation master, as well as painter, poet, songwriter and playwright, the Gyalwang Karmapa is an avid environmentalist.     Click here to register.Co-sponsored […]

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Tiny Cells, Global Impact

03/10/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Professor Sallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Biology Open to General Public The James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments by full-time members of the MIT faculty. It is the […]

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