Rotman Institute Conference on Knowledge and Models in Climate Science

By: Eric Winsberg

I am currently attending this exciting conference on Climate Modeling at the Rotman Institute at Western University.    I'll try to get a few posts up over the next few days about some of the highlights.   

Last night was related event:  a public panel meeting on Climate Change: what should we do?   One of the most interesting claims made, to my mind, was by Gary Brown.   He argued for the city as a good agent for social change.   His basic claim was that Cities are the kinds of political entities in which positive political change is within our grasp  (think of London, ON and San Francisco banning plastic water bottles, or New York City almost banning large sugarry drinks) and that once Cities speak in this sort of way, they can change the political dialog of the whole country or beyond.