News Articles

This page contains links to news articles covering research conducted by CMI faculty, staff researchers, graduate students and members of the Advisory Council.

Recent News

A Force to Fight Global Warming
Nov. 19, 2009, Nature

Fossil Fuel CO₂ Emissions Up by 29 Percent Since 2000 (full citation)
Nov. 17, 2009, Insciences

The Personal Carbon Footprint Makes Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2009 List
Nov. 13, 2009, Time

Climate Central work cited in More Record Highs and Far Fewer Lows
Nov. 12, 2009, New York Times

The Climate Race: How Global Warming is Already Affecting Us and the Tough Choices We Have to Make
Listen Now!
Oct. 29, 2009, Market Place, American Public Media

Michael Oppenheimer cited in article Campaign Against Emissions Picks Number
Oct. 24, 2009, New York Times

Scientists: Biofuel Laws May Harm Environment
Listen Now!
Oct 23, 2009, NPR

Study: Accounting Error Undermines Climate Change Laws
Michael Oppenheimer co-authors article published in the journal Science (full citation)
Oct 22, 2209, News at Princeton

Climate Central Reports: In Greenland, Ice Unlocks Climate Change History
Oct. 19, 2009, NewsHour

Future Unlikely For Kyoto Climate Treaty
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Oct. 16, 2009, NPR

Massimo Tavoni, CMI Postdoctoral Associate, cited in article: On Road to Copenhagen, Experts Seeking Most Sustainable Energy Lane
Oct. 16, 2009, Media Global

Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences participates in Antarctica research project. Old Ice: Climate Record from Last 2.5 Million Years May Sit at the Surface of Allan Hills
Oct. 2 2009, Antarctic Sun Editor

CMI's Advisory Council Member Michael A. Levi authors piece entitled "Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth"
Sept./Oct. 2009, Foreign Affairs

Sharing Global CO₂ Emission Reductions Among One Billion High Emitters
Sept. 28, 2009, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program & World Bank Institute

Carbon Mitigation Initiative Launches Redesigned Website
Sept. 25, 2009, PEI News

Sigman, Zoli Win MacArthur 'Genius Grants'
Sept. 22, 2009, News at Princeton

Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention
The world watches a coal-fired power plant's effort to capture and bury some of the carbon dioxide it creates.
Sept. 21, 2009, New York Times

Princeton Awarded More Than $17 Million in Recovery Act Funding
Sept. 18, 2009, News at Princeton

Three Ways Climate Action Offers a Business Advantage
Sept. 17, 2009, Reuters

Kerry: Health Care Debate "Flexes Muscles" for Climate Change Bill
Michael Oppenheimer discusses the challenges faced by the Senate to pass Climate Change Bill prior to Copenhagen meeting in December
Sept. 10 2009, ABC News

Climate-Control Plans Scrutinized: The Royal Society Reviews Options for Fighting Global Warming with Geoengineering (PDF Report)
Sept. 1, 2009, Nature News

Better Sharing of CO₂ Emissions Targets
August 27, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

"Sharing Global CO₂ Emission Reductions Among One Billion High Emitters" (PDF) Makes Top 10 of 30 Most-Read Papers Online During the Month of July 2009
August 27, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

A New Growth Industry? Biochar Could Enrich Soils and Cut Greenhouse Gases as Well
August 27, 2009, The Economist

DOE Selects Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO₂ Storage
August 24, 2009, U.S. Department of Energy

Invasive Weeds Grow with Global Warming
August 16, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle

Report Maps the Future of U.S. Energy Technology (full citation, PDF Report)
August 11, 2009, News at Princeton

Geoengineering to Mitigate Global Warming May Cause Other Environmental Harm
August 7, 2009, Science Daily

Geoengineering Schemes Under Scrutiny
August 7, 2009, Nature News

Climate Engineering Responses to Climate Emergencies (PDF)
July 28, 2009, NOVIM Group

Actions Taken Over the Next Decade to Demonstrate and Deploy Key Technologies Will Determine U.S. Energy Future
July 28, 2009, National Academies

Making Beneficial Biofuels: The Food, Energy and Environment Trilemma
July 17, 2009, Science

Biofuels 'Done Right' Can Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Provide Other Benefits (full citation)
July 16, 2009, News at Princeton

Four Reasons to Use Cap-and-Trade to Fight Global Warming
July 13, 2009, The Huffington Post

New Princeton Method May Help Allocate Carbon Emissions Responsibility Among Nations (full citation)
July 6, 2009, News at Princeton

Scientists Urge G8 to Take 'Strong' Action on Climate Change
July 6, 2009, Earth Times

Maeder Fund to Promote Innovation in Energy and Environment Research
July 1, 2009, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

The Carbon Clock (video)
June 30 2009, Climate Central

Ideas Festival Kickoff: Opening "Big Ideas" Session
June 30, 2009, The Atlantic

Socolow to Receive Frank Kreith Energy Award
June 24, 2009, News at Princeton

Brinkman Confirmed as Director of DOE's Office of Science
June 23, 2009, News at Princeton

Princeton University Scientists Propose Unique Approach to Co-Processing Coal and Biomass
June 23, 2009, Energy Boom

Deutsche Bank Launches World's First Real-Time Carbon Counter That Displays Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
June 18, 2009, Deutsche Bank Press Release

Debenedetti Does Entertaining Science at Cornelia Street Cafe
June 9, 2009, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The "Wedges" Concept Acknowledged as Important Contribution from Princeton Faculty at 2009 President's Commencement Remarks
June 2, 2009, News at Princeton

Fuels from Coal and Biomass Could Impact U.S. Oil Dependence, But Significant Technological Investments Are Still Needed
May 20, 2009, News from the National Academies

Grand Challenges: Biological Effects of Ocean Acidification
Climate Policy Based on Individual Emissions
China's Rapid Deployment of SO₂ Scrubbers
Power Shift: Energy Group Analyzes Options for the Future
May 18, 2009, PEI News, Spring/Summer 2009 (PDF)

Princeton to Receive $20 Million to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center
May 5, 2009, News at Princeton

President Obama Announces his Intent to Nominate Richard G. Newell as Administrator of the Energy Information Administration
May 4, 2009, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary

Bill Brinkman Nominated by President Obama for Director of the DOE Office of Science
April 17, 2009, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary

Steve Koonin Nominated by President Obama as Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy
March 20, 2009, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary

Forget the Freezer: Research Suggests Novel Way to Control Water Behavior
Feb. 20, 2009, e! Science News

Storing Wind Power: PEI Researchers Submit Report on Compressed Air Energy Storage
Collaboration Between PEI and GFDL Fuels Sarmiento's Climate Change Research
Climate Modeling Center at Forefront of Climate Research Research
Jan. 5, 2009, PEI News, Fall/Winter 2008 (PDF)