Coming up in November 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2-4 pm Tipping Point: Climate Change Feedback Crisis? View and discuss the Pirate TV video recording of "Facing Bifurcation: Crossroads in Context", the keynote address by David Wasdell at the Humanity 3000 seminar in
Seattle, April 2006.At
North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski, Chicago
312-744-5472
Sponsor: Chicagoland Urban Permaculture (CUP)
David Wasdell is Director of the
Meridian Programme. His presentaion is a conceptual, top-down, systems-dynamics approach to modelling the whole earth system as a single global entity. It stands in sharp contrast to the bottom-up, integrational approach adopted in familiar climate modelling.
His
October 2005, 4 page presentation at the Club of Rome, provides a summary
A July, 2006 updated version, giving some of the modeling details is
Beyond the Tipping Point: Positive Feedback and the Acceleration of Climate change. Towards the Anthropocene Extinction Event