#iams — Public Fediverse posts

Models to assess scenarios of futures often reflect Western concerns and values. They assume persistent inequalities, obscure ethical or normative choices, and systematically fail to include stakeholders and scientists from other cultures.
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• We explore limitations of modelling science in assessing different justice dimensions
• We emphasise various procedural, recognitional, and epistemic justice considerations
• We take aim at the disconnect with non-modellers and Global South underrepresentation."

Alexandros Nikas et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2026.103850 🧩 🧵

#futures #anticipation #bias #modelling #modeling #models #IAM #IAMs #climatePolicy #science #climateScience

Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached.
Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in funneling action while shifting risks to vulnerable populations.
Roger A. Pielke Jr. advocated for taking the role of saying "How about these other ideas?" instead of taking a position on currently debated topics.

ref. (2007). "The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics" 🧩 🧵

#policy #uncertainty #uncertainties #robustness #probabilities #futures #anticipation #IAMs #science #modelling #modeling #risks #riskAssessment #unknowns #governance #bias #workCollectives #institutions #Pielke

It's Ginger Cat Appreciation Day! "She contacted ME from the shelter with her Iams cat food model headshot." "Her actual photos make AI self-aware of its own jealousy." "When she appears on a TV that doesn't work, it's the highest-rated program on television." "Shylo is... the most interesting cat in the world." "I don't always sleep, but when I do, I sleep 23 hours per day. Stay ginger cat, my friends."

#GingerCatAppreciationDay #cat #cats #Caturday #mostinteresting #gingercat #Iams #catfood #photography #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

My all time favorite #porsche at the #iams in the RAI in Amsterdam. What a beautiful color. Exclusiv Manufactur 911 Turbo Cabrio. #carmastodon

Nice paper on how optimistic/pessimistic models underlying the #IPCC WG3 assessments are regarding their assumptions on coal with CCS/renewables:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad24cd#erlad24cdf6

„The overall pattern that emerges shows that, on average, #IAMS expect growth in renewables to fall to less that half of their recent pace and #CCS to more than double from its current best estimate.”

Fantastic day with the #iClimate crew from @AarhusUni at their annual meeting . A genuinely interdisciplinary #Climate group with talks covering #Energy grids and how to account for #Renewables in #IAMs, how to encourage more people in #FlyingLess plus #palaeoclimate the state of #Arctic #SeaIce + #methane #aerosols #biodiversity and the #Economics of #climateadaptation

They're doing some really great #Science + #SocialScience research. Go check them out.

https://iclimate.au.dk/

Interesting to see scholar use PPT template that looks like a stone tablet. Even though presentation is somewhat historical, doesn't seem to be ironic...
#IAMS #IntlAssocMongolStudies

These models are used to compare reducing emissions options (#mitigation) given specific policy goals (e.g., limiting warming to 1.5°C). In contrast to cost-benefit #IAMs, they do *not* include a feedback from temperature change on population or economy (GDP).

The only effect on GDP are costs from #ClimatePolicy - benefits from avoiding flooding or fires are ignored *by assumption*.
It's a one-way street: #population & #GDP to baseline-vs-mitigation scenarios (i.e., different #warming levels).

#Pets food is big business. In 2018, pet owners in the USA alone spent over thirty-billion dollars on food for their animal companions.

The Truth About Prescription Pet Foods

https://www.canadianpetconnection.ca/prescription-pet-foods/
H/T @elliek #Pets #Food #RoyalCanin #Iams #Cat #Dog #HillsScienceDiet #Purina

@daniel_huppmann @anlomedad_real This idea of a formal "requirement" for a specific modelling approach is highly problematic in multiple ways. That some blessing by a few self-appointed gurus from the global North is required rather emphasizes the problems with #IAMs than resolving them.

Worth reading also this note by Yamina Saheb, Kai Kuhnhenn and Juliane Schumacher https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/46631/its-a-very-western-vision-of-the-world