Tag: Michael McElroy

  • Nation & World

    An ‘element of risk’ rewarded

    From uncovering the ancient histories of viruses to investigating interethnic cooperation in war-torn areas, the 2023 winners of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research explore uncharted territory.

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    Science illustration.
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    Heat rising, along with urgency and hope, as climate summit nears

    Despite dire warnings of climate scientists, Harvard climate experts are encouraged by recent progress to fight it.

    13 minutes
    Caldor Fire creates smoky orange sky above Sierra Nevada mountains.
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    So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?

    Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.

    9 minutes
    Solar panels.
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    What weighed on us in 2019? ‘Climate emergency’

    Harvard faculty reflect on 2019’s word of the year: “climate emergency.”

    10 minutes
    Protestors marching, holding a large banner and signs.
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    Clearing the way for cleaner air in China

    Researchers have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move toward carbon-negative electric power generation and found that China can do so in an economically competitive way.

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    Ganjiaxiang's industrial panorama.
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    Studying environmental issues in China

    A group of Harvard undergraduatess interested in fighting environmental decline spent the summer studying China’s problems and working alongside scholars whose efforts are directed at a host of issues.

    4 minutes
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    Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake

    Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

    10 minutes
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    No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution

    A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.

    4 minutes
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    A way forward on climate

    Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, talks about his new book, “Energy and Climate: Vision for the Future.”

    11 minutes
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    Harvard creates Global Institute

    A multidisciplinary project to investigate climate change, energy security, and sustainable development in China has received the first $3.75 million grant from the new Harvard Global Institute.

    5 minutes
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    Political climate, changed

    Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to institute a cap-and-trade program in the Asian giant by 2017. Harvard China Project leader Michael McElroy discussed the announcement and its potential effects on both climate legislation in the United States and on future climate talks in Paris.

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    Support for seven from president’s climate fund

    Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

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    Working with China on key issues necessary

    Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick advocated engagement with China in areas of agreement as the nation faces its multiple challenges in environment, economy, and energy supply.

    4 minutes
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    Weather warning

    A report co-authored by Professor Michael McElroy and D. James Baker, a former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, connects global climate change, extreme weather, and national security.

    5 minutes
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    Carbon counter

    Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for 2005 to 2009, and the first statistically rigorous estimates of the uncertainties surrounding China’s CO2 emissions.

    5 minutes
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    Model situation?

    Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have shown that the primary explanation for the reduction in CO2 emissions from power generation that year was that a decrease in the price of natural gas reduced the industry’s reliance on coal.

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