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Our op-ed is out today in Boston Globe Media, in which we discuss the challenges and opportunities in decarbonizing heating in Massachusetts. The bottom line? Electricity rates need to come down before there is widespread uptake of heat pumps. https://lnkd.in/edf2p9fs
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NEW: Released today, Professor Juliette Kayyem and PBS Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien lead a documentary delving into tornado destruction, examining the science driving our understanding of tornadoes and the difficulties with recovery from a disaster. In Oklahoma, the 2024 season for tornadoes has broken records. Nearly 100 twisters have wreaked havoc, leaving behind death, destruction, and devastated communities. Watch the documentary by MyRadar here.
Last week at the Nato summit, leaders called China a ‘decisive enabler’ of the war in Ukraine - a statement that Beijing denies. On Ukrainecast, the Belfer Center's Rana Mitter joined Spectator journalist Cindy Yu to talk about China's role in this conflict.
"No one knows what will happen in the coming months. But we must recognize that the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13 is unlikely to be the last violent incident in the 109 days before November 5." Graham Allison writes in The National Interest.
"Iran may have a surprising new president, but the future of Iran still looks like its past." In Foreign Affairs Magazine, Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Research Fellow with Harvard's Middle East Initiative, argues Pezeshkian is likely to govern "in seamless coordination with the supreme leader—just as Raisi did," with the country maintaining its assertive regional policies and nuclear program, and strengthening its friendships with China and Russia.
Research Professor - George Mason University
2wadding the cost of carbon emissions to natural gas wouldn’t make it cheaper but it would lower/eliminate the disparity. It’s being done on the generation side of natural gas with RGGI, which (ironically) exacerbates the problem.