Coming on the heels of an announcement that a forthcoming IPCC report confirms that climate change is causing more extreme weather events, Climate Interactive consortium member and MIT professor, John …
ClimateWire Covers Sterman and Importance of Discovery in Climate Breakthroughs
John Sterman of MIT Sloan, a Climate Interactive consortium member, continues to make headlines with his latest research on communicating climate change. From ClimateWire, below is Evan Lehmann's …
MIT Sloan’s Sterman Breaks Through the Climate Communications Challenge
We're excited that MIT News is covering a new paper by our Climate Interactive consortium member John Sterman of MIT Sloan. Simulations can make a difference! From David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, …
Beth Sawin On Hurricane Irene from Vermont Bioneers: The Big Four Lessons
At the end of August, Vermont was hit by catastrophic flooding as result of Hurricane Irene, which dumped six inches of rain on already saturated hillsides around the state. On Saturday, I (Beth …
Dickinson College COP17 delegation World Climate experiences
Nine weeks away from their attendance at the COP 17 Climate Change Negotiations in Durban, South Africa, students of Dickinson College's delegation joined with classmates to participate in Climate …
Tropical Storm Irene Hits Close to Home
Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin (who is coping with life in newly flooded Vermont – she and family are okay BTW) posted a timely perspective on this week’s Irene disaster on Romm’s Climate …
Powerful C-ROADS Graphs From New ClimateWorks Report
Australia’s Gillard Is Right on Climate Dynamics: “Nothing Hard Ever Gets Easier By Waiting”
"I've learned in my life that nothing hard ever gets easier by waiting." That was Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, addressing the national press club about her stance on carbon prices last …
The Costs of Delay: A Powerful New Report Incorporating C-ROADS Scenarios
Our partners at the ClimateWorks Foundation have just published an excellent new report: The Costs of Delay. The message of the report is one we at Climate Interactive emphasize whenever we get the …
Three Reasons To Keep on Working on Climate Education and Energy Policy
"Wow. I just want to cry. Please tell me we are making a difference."’ Those were the words of a colleague today after she watched a video illustrating a recent Bill McKibben essay about a rising …
The Importance of the Next Five and 10 Years – Climate Simulations Convey What the Author of the Widely Known Stern Report Considers the ‘Great Challenge’ of Climate Communication
Nicholas Stern, when asked in a recent interview by the MIT Technology Review, about the sense of urgency he was trying to convey in the Stern Review, published five years ago this fall, had this to …
Climate Interactive Heads to China
I'm excited to be leaving tomorrow to Beijing to work with our dear colleagues at Tsinghua University. They have asked for the C-ROADS simulation to be presented to a group of provincial leaders who …