The following essay was written by the Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, Joseph Curtatone. Although Curtatone ties systems thinking to I-93 and childhood obesity in Somerville, the same long-term ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fiddaman Doesn’t Mourn the Copenhagen Accord’s Missing Emissions Targets
(This is a guest post by Climate Interactive team member Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems. His terrific blog is here. This post originally ran at the blog of Xujun Eberlein: Inside Out China.) I've ...
Innovative Partnership Launches Freeware Online Climate Simulation
A new partnership of companies and NGOs committed to open source climate simulations has launched a freeware climate decision support tool. Check it out here -- click on the big "C-Learn" ...
Bonn – Are Developing Countries Asking For the Wrong Thing?
Today's post comes from Climate Interactive partner and lead modeler on the C-ROADS simulation, Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems. It was originally posted on his excellent "MetaSD" blog. From the ...
Only The Most Ambitious Emissions Reductions Under Discussion Within the UNFCCC Come Close To Achieving Climate Goals
The diplomats at this week's UNFCCC meeting in Bonn will need to aim towards the most ambitious proposals offered so far within the UNFCCC process if they want a global agreement later this year ...
Building Confidence in C-ROADS
How does one build confidence in a system dynamics simulation like C-ROADS? Above you can see results from one important test that Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems did. Here's what he did: From the ...
The Deal We Need
Team modeler Tom Fiddaman (that's him in the picture) of Ventana Systems and I are heading to Washington DC next week (Oct 16th) to run an abbreviated version of the Copenhagen Climate Exercise with ...