We're happy that our colleague and supporter Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica is the new UN Climate Chief! Read the press release here. In a previous blog post, Christiana said that C-ROADS is an …
“Carbon Bathtub” Metaphor Gets More and More Coverage
The climate change bathtub metaphor appears in Neil Wagner's "What on Earth?" cartoon. This way to look at the climate change challenge emerged from research by Dr. John Sterman and Linda Booth …
Vote for Your Favorite C-Learn Scenario on Climate Collaboratorium
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is complementing our simulation efforts with their new Climate Collaboratorium. This service allows users to create, analyze, and vote for their favorite …
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 …
C-Learn helps the Good Life Meet the Green Life
[vodpod id=Video.3931360&w=425&h=350&fv=] Play the sim above or click here for a larger version. A new simplified version of C-Learn has been released as part of a website called …
For Climate Solutions: Think Civil Rights Movement, Not Manhattan Project
The solution to climate change will look much more like the civil rights movement than the Manhattan Project, says MIT's John Sterman in his the keynote address at last week's IBM Almaden Institute …
The Benshi: “It was very cool. Very very cool.”
Today we have guest post by the Science Communicator Guru Randy Olson, who wrote an excellent book "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style " and has a great blog as well, The …
“Climate Pledge Adders” Collaborate in Bonn
Many of the scientists and analysts who are working together to add up climate change mitigation pledges to determine their sufficiency to address climate change met to collaborate at the recent …
Climate Interactive Partner Citi Named Greenest Big Bank
Recently listed at the top of "America's Greenest Bank" rankings, Citi was one of the founding funders of Climate Interactive, long before C-ROADS was discovered and used by so many climate analysts …
World Needs Long Term, Post-2020 Climate Targets
How far into the future should policymakers specify the GHG emissions targets they and their nations propose? How far into the future should climate modelers try to forecast the consequences of those …
“Adding Up” Pledges Gets Official in UNFCCC!
A working group of the UNFCCC officially requested the sort of "Adding Up" of mitigation pledges that we do with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard! Here's the accepted text: The AWG-KP requested …
Climate Scoreboard Takes Flight
On the trip home from the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany I was pleasantly surprised to see a fairly accurate representation of the Climate Scoreboard in the pages of Delta's onboard magazine, Delta …