Took the train from Seattle to Vancouver yesterday. Much less painful than going to the airport. Since I was already in the Seattle area, I thought it was a good chance to go to a regional CCL conference nearby.
Last night was a social evening just getting to know people from other places.
I'm now on one about a EN-ROADS that is a simulator for calculating the impact of different actions on climate change.
And here are some slides that show some of the latest data on climate change.
Lots of questions about what things are included in these charts and what's left out and warnings that these are models, approximations, but they give us more information about climate change progress and how the EN-ROADS model would affect things.
Here's one more slide - that shows the EN-ROADS model results of one simulation (as I understand what's happening.)
You can't see much here, but you can go online to see the EN-ROADS simulator and play with it.
Let's see how clear this screen shot of the variables that are manipulated in this simulation to see which measures impact future temperature change.
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| If you click on the image it gets much clearer |
I think the core thing about En-Roads is the fact you can figure out how the Earth can stay beneath 1.5°C, and that it can be done - if we act now. It is a lot more than just a cool tool to play with. Great to have this report from Vancouver. Thanks Steve!
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