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 thought process of actions and consequences must be utilized by city and regional leaders today as we increasingly feel the impacts of a changing climate. Hats off […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 finally recovered from a long and frustrating week at COP15 in Copenhagen. Like many, I never actually made it into the conference […]
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” banner. C-Learn is the more accessible, online version of the C-ROADS simulation, which was recently seen in US State Department Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing’s […]
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 news: BONN, Germany (Reuters) – China, India and other developing nations joined forces on Wednesday to urge rich countries to make far deeper cuts in greenhouse […]
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 that will stabilize CO2 levels in the range of 350-450 ppm. The figure to the left — the output of […]
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 published papers and online data, we made a graph of the “CO2 in the atmosphere” results from historical data and from […]
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 C-ROADS (formerly called Pangaea) as part of a Tallberg Foundation event at the Swedish Embassy. The theme of the event is “The Climate […]