In the Media

E&E News reporter Chelsea Harvey speaks with MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy and MIT Energy Initiative Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris about the demise of RCP8.5, a recently-retired climate modeling scenario, and the need for increased communication about the likelihood of different climate scenarios. “It’s really no different in other areas in life that we deal with,” says Morris. “We buy insurance to protect ourselves not from the likely outcomes but from the worst-case outcomes. It’s the same thinking. We need to be thinking about what are the worst-case scenarios in addition to what are the more likely scenarios.”