{"id":670,"date":"2015-11-04T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2015-11-04T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:57:48","slug":"the-society-environment-and-economics-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"The Society, Environment and Economics Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1krqqca\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-220\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1krqqca\" alt=\"seel\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to introduce SEEL, David Anthoff&#8217;s nascent lab within the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.  What was initially a ramshackle group of Ph.D. students, associated with David for as little reason that economically minded folk in ERG&#8217;s engineering-focused community need to stick together, seems to be growing into a healthy researching machine.  Check out the new website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1l79LLI\">Society, Environment and Economics Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current drivers are around <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1mXgq7g\">FUND<\/a>, a widely-used integrated assessment model, maintained by David.  For a long time, models like this have been black boxes, and FUND is one of the few with open source code.  That&#8217;s changing with David&#8217;s new modeling framework, <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1l79JDF\">Mimi<\/a>, which has allowed him to <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1krqsRr\">rewrite FUND<\/a> as a collection of interconnected components.<\/p>\n<p>I like the vision, and I think it&#8217;s implemented in a way that has real legs for shifting the climate impact assessment process into a more open process.  But we&#8217;ll find out soon.  The National Academy of Sciences is meeting soon to discuss the future of the &#8220;social cost of carbon&#8221;, an influential quantity computed by models like FUND.  David is going to try to convince them that the future of impact modeling looks like Mimi.  Godspeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to introduce SEEL, David Anthoff&#8217;s nascent lab within the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. What was initially a ramshackle group of Ph.D. students, associated with David for as little reason that economically minded folk in ERG&#8217;s engineering-focused community need to stick together, seems to be growing into a healthy researching machine. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Society, Environment and Economics Lab<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,14,15],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ifttt","tag-james-rising","tag-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}