Today we have a guest blogger, long time colleague, the system dynamicist and systems thinker Kris Wile of Systems Thinking Collaborative. Chris Soderquist, of Pontifex Consulting, and I delivered …
Open Access Climate Models to Help Democratize Climate Change Policy
Thanks to Google Earth, citizen leaders around the world have access to satellite images of their local watersheds and forests. And increasingly, they are using the information to monitor the health …
Waxman-Markey Targets Would Ensure a US Contribution to Meeting Climate Goals
The climate bill put forward this week by Waxman and Markey lays out targets that are ambitious enough to make a significant contribution to the global effort to avoid the most dangerous consequences …
“We Want To Do Whatever We Can”
If the governments of the largest GHG emitting nations had the vision and the mandate of the low-lying Indian Ocean nation, The Maldives, we'd be already be aiming towards a different world. The …
Senator John Kerry to Introduce C-ROADS Briefing in Washington
Our partners John Sterman from MIT and Bob Corell from the Heinz Center are presenting C-ROADS and its latest findings this Wednesday (March 18) on the Hill! Senator John Kerry will provide …
We Aren’t On Track But We Could Be: CAI Presentation in Copenhagen
In a session on "Enabling Long Term Climate Policy" at the IARU Climate Conference in Copenhagen yesterday, I presented on behalf of the Climate Action Initiative, the team that has formed to use …
Risk of Ruin
One of the more interesting talks at the Climate Congress this week came a presentation by Nick Silver and Oliver Betts, professionals from the insurance industry who have been applying frameworks of …
Minister Hedegaard’s Challenge to C-ROADS
OK - she wasn't speaking to the C-ROADS team alone but to all of the assembled scientists: "You scientists have to tell the politicians what you know loud and clear. Bring your best game make your …