Getting to zero emissions will require a fundamental rethinking of the energy system. Advances in data science are enabling new technologies and approaches to cleaning up our energy house.
Sally Benson is co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. Her talk was presented as part of an October 6, 2019, event at Stanford University: Accelerating Climate Solutions for a World that Works. Please see http://climatesolutions.stanford.edu for more information.
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Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.