In September 2010, MIT’s School of Science launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry. By emphasizing high-risk, curiosity- driven research, the Lorenz Center aims to attract an interdisciplinary group of top scientists who will focus on the enormous scientific challenge of understanding the physics, biology, and chemistry of the climate system.
PAOC's Kerry Emanuel, Breene M. Kerr Professor of Meteorology, and Daniel H. Rothman, Professor of Geophysics, are leading this effort, which is named after their late colleague Edward N. Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory and an early contributor to theoretical climate science. Located on the 18th floor of the Green Building, the Lorenz Center is endorsed by all of MIT’s climate scientists, even those who are skeptical of the effects of human activity.
Read more about this endeavor in the spring issue of the MIT School of Science newsletter.