The Citizen-Times (US) interviewed Ellie Johnston, Beth Sawin, and Drew Jones of Climate Interactive as well as our partner Tom Fiddaman and took photos of the role-playing World Climate game. Check out their article “Climate change models inform negotiators, engage regular folks” to learn more about how Climate Interactive got its start and what we do. Read […]
To hit the gas or not?: Natural gas and our energy future
Debate over whether to promote natural gas or not has been elevated across the country following President Obama’s State of the Union address where he made a strong call for natural gas development. Just yesterday, one of the nation’s largest and oldest environmental organizations, the Sierra Club, announced that it will no longer support natural […]
Tom Fiddaman Shares the Power of Simulations
In his latest blog post, Climate Interactive partner Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems shares thoughts on his recent interview for SEED Magazine. The story discusses using models to develop “complex solutions to complex problems” and notes the utility of C-ROADS: “having the capacity to accurately predict the utility of proposed policy—whether it be domestic legislature […]
The New C-ROADS Simulation Has Amazing Climate Analysis Capabilities
Check out this short video to view the new features of C-ROADS. The top five improvements: 1. Choose from 14 different reference scenarios, pulled from EMF and SRES 2. Create emissions scenarios by changing Carbon intensity 3. Land use emissions are disaggregated by country (thanks to primary research funded by Heinz Center and TCG) 4. […]
C-ROADS Version 2.0 — Thinking about drivers of emissions scenarios post 2020
A new simulation from the C-ROADS team is coming! To fully address climate change, we’ll need to look at strategies, policies, and investments over the next decade that will affect greenhouse gas emissions for much longer into the future. (One big reason — fifteen times the needed Carbon abatement will happen post 2020!) We’re working […]
Tom Fiddaman on Open Source Climate Simulations and C-ROADS
Today we have guest post by Tom Fiddaman of our Climate Interactive team. The original is here. Models and copyrights Tom Fiddaman, July 15, 2010 Or, Friends don’t let friends work for hire. Image Copyright 2004 Lawrence Liang, Piet Zwart Institute, licensed under a Creative Commons License Photographers and other media workers hate work for […]
Stock, Flow and Loop Diagram of Climate Change from Fiddaman
< p style=”text-align:left;”>Climate Interactive partner Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems gave a climate talk at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman Montana on C-ROADS and C-Learn. The original post is was published on his blog. Cool hybrid stock-and-flow and causal loop diagram — even cooler in the step-by-step build that is included in his slides. Much […]
Fiddaman to Lead Climate Modeling Course
Dr. Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems, in my opinion the top system dynamics modeler of climate change science and policy, will be leading a public training course next month in New Mexico, USA. As person who has learned a lot from Tom over the past fifteen years, I would STRONGLY encourage interested folks to sign […]
Top Ten Ways Climate Interactive and C-ROADS Delivered Results in Copenhagen
The Climate Interactive team, led by Sustainability Institute, delivered big results in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC’s COP15 climate conference. Bill McKibben wrote in the UK Guardian, from Copenhagen: “the only people who really understand what’s going on may be a small crew … called Climate Interactive. Their software speaks numbers, not spin – and in […]
C-ROADS China Collaboration Grows
The collaboration of the C-ROADS team with Chinese climate analysts at Tsinghua University is growing via a university partnership. At the recent UN conference in Copenhagen, Drew Jones of Sustainability Institute met with Professor He Jiankun of Tsinghua University (shown in the photo) to discuss extending and customizing the C-ROADS simulation to better match the […]