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Informing media and climate negotiators with the C-roads climate model

Guest lecture by Andrew Jones, co-director of Climate Interactive.

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In the New York Times, everyone can use C-roads to test out the effects of different emission targets for major regions of the world.
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Hovedinnhold

Different from the big general circulation models that take days to simulate and analyse, the C-roads model replicates well the big climate models and produce results in seconds. Therefore, the C-roads model has been used by climate negotiators from several nations to get quick answers to pressing questions.

Andrew Jones will demonstrate how the model is used with negotiators and politicians, among them President Obama. A major reason for Climate Interactive to develop the model in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Management, was to counteract widespread misperceptions of the dynamics of climate change, which has led politicians and electorates to opt for wait-and-see strategies. He will also explain how the model is used to give quick comments to media events, such as President Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

This is a link to the New York Times, where everyone can use C-roads to test out the effects of different emission targets for major regions of the world. A more elaborate version of the model will become available for researchers at UiB’s new Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation to inform the Norwegian debate on climate policies.

Program

Welcome: Rector, Dag Rune Olsen
The problem of misperception: Professor of System Dynamics, Erling Moxnes
Informing with C-Roads: Co-director of Climate Interactive, MIT & Stanford Univ., Andrew Jones

Organized by: The System Dynamics Group and the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation.