Discussion Global Climate Action Plan 2015

Hello, Thank you for reaching out to us! Unfortunately, we are unable to grant more space at this time. Please do your best to summarize your points within the space provided. We apologize for the inconvenience! Thank you, Annalyn Bachmann Visiting Student with the Climate CoLab

Hello, Thank you for reaching out to us! Unfortunately, the template for the regional contests will not be the same as the proposal template for the 2015 Proposal Workspace. However, you should still be able to select your proposals created in the workspace. I would suggest checking out the template for the Regional Climate Action plans so that you can include all the necessary information. Also, the deadline for regional climate action plans has been extended until August 31st, so you may still have the opportunity to submit your proposals. Thank you, Annalyn Bachmann Visiting Student with the Climate CoLab

Dear Climate CoLab Community, We also wanted to let everyone know that we will be opening a regional climate action plan workspace after the deadline for the current round of regional contests. Here you will be able to work on your regional climate action plans outside of the contest period, and link to them in your global plan. We will be posting updates about this soon! Thank you, Annalyn

The use of logic should not be a negative/limiting factor in the judging of proposals! 

There has been a rule change which is clearly directed at eliminating the value of any national/regional proposal which anticipates 'Global Plan' needs.

This rule change fundamentally limits both the judge's freedom of thought and action and that of the authors.

The following text will be inserted into:  The iWENN Carbon Negative Infrastructure Investment Strategy  

The logical basis and the three key elements of a global plan proposal, as envisioned by the CoLab team, is stated as:

“Any comprehensive combination of actions to address climate change across the world as a whole must necessarily involve:

• multiple sectors of the economy, especially segments of the energy and agricultural industries;

• activity at multiple geographic levels (international, national, regional, and local),

• interventions in the technical, biological, and geological systems that directly affect the earth’s carbon cycle as well as interventions in the economic and political systems, and behavioral patterns, that shape the relevant physical systems.”

The most seemingly logical and common sense approach to addressing the above widely diverse 3 problem sets first requires that the most common denominators, at the STEM problem set level, be isolated and that the most appropriate STEM solution(s) be adopted as the pivot or starting point for the balance of the global plan.

This reductionist approach to complex problem set evaluation and resolution is well understood and long recognized in multiple professional fields such as science, technology, engineering, business and policy development.

On the subject of ‘the most appropriate STEM solution’, in general, most well informed researchers now understand that the carbon emissions problem is so immense that there is now a critical need for large scale investments (trillions of dollars) in massive scale carbon negative infrastructure development programs. We need to remove, properly utilize and then sequester 10 trillion tons of carbon or the environment and thus society will become highly dysfunctional...within a few decades...not centuries.  

In simple words:logic encourages us to find a singular concept for managing vast amounts of carbon, which will require vast investments in infrastructure and such an idea is available through carbon negative technology.  

However, in this MIT Climate Colab Global Plan challenge, the CoLab team informs the authors that global plans will be rejected if they follow well accepted problem set evaluation and resolution logic.

As stated in a recent CoLab alert message to all Global Plan authors: “IMPORTANT **For example, plans will not be advanced that offer a singular idea that can be applied globally.”In view of how complex problems are routinely solved by most professionals,this judging standard and its logic should not be set aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force!

Michael

Not sure where to start with integrating proposals for your global climate action plan?

Introducing seed proposals: proposals that are summaries of existing national or regional climate action plans, like the United States Climate Action plan, or the European Union's 2030 Climate and Energy Framework.

Seed proposals have been uploaded to the Climate CoLab by contest Fellows.  We invite you to link to these in your global proposal, or to use them as a starting point for creating proposals of your own.

View seed proposals on the regional contest workspace:  https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302801

Or in the global contest: https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302401

Feel free to contact us with questions!

Mosessite:

There seems to be an extra piece of code in the embedded link you have there.  Please try copying and pasting the code into your browser address bar: https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302801

Sadly I think that this effort will be largely wasted. There are changes in both economic theory and engineering that will make all of the 5 posts at best redundant.  Critical questions concerning the economics and sources of carbon are not being asked and because of that answers that are neither effective or economic will be provided. Because they are largely ineffective and not economic they wil not be adopted on any scale.

What is epically sad is that the information and technology is already out there but nobody is looking. I am certain I will be easy to dismiss for I am just an architect and I do not have a PHD in any of the fields. What I do have is a Team of engineers, that have designed and built multi billion dollar power plant working with my ideas and the ability to look at ideas that have been dismissed for good reason but to see them applied differently in a manner that allows them to function in a manner that is both sound from an engineering standpoint but from an economic stand point. 

While I have looked at the proposals I have a problem seeing where any of them can reduce energy costs. Why not take on fossil fuels at their strength, low cost and beat them there. If that is done then market fouces will provide the changes faster than any government action. 

I do applaud the work of all the contestants teams and MIT for producing this contest. That is critical for change to ocure but do not be surprised if discoveries else where come and change the rules. 

Most Respectfully 

Bruce Best (1989esprit) and Gene Preston and others not finding what you are looking for among the five finalists in the Global Action Plan contest, please note that our proposal, Make Climate a Top Priority for Action by Every Global Citizen and Organization, by Mobilize Now is not perfect, but it does provide an umbrella under which all the other proposals in the finals of this contest, plus many other winners, and citizen initiatives, and many ideas that were too extensive to fit in the rubric could be sheltered.  It provides the "bubble up" complement to the "trickle down" mandates that we may see coming out of the Climate Negotiations going on now in Paris.  If implemented it will help provide the citizen pressure needed to implement household and village level, regional, national and international projects and programs that are "sound from an engineering standpoint and from an economic standpoint."

What we expect to do if we win is to mobilize our team to - in turn - mobilize their technical colleagues and their political allies and their educational peers in every country to take the initiative to mobilize everyone around themselves to solve the problem, not just to pay lip service to it.  

My own work was in Family Planning program in South Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s where we worked with our local counterparts to reduce average number of children per family from 6 to around 1.6 in a single generation.  We did this by following the culture change methodology spelled out in 1962 by Professor Everett Rogers, generally termed The Diffusion of Innovations.  This systematic approach to culture change moves people quickly past mere "Awareness" and helps them to climb a stairway from Awareness to Interest to Trial and Evaluation (which may need to be repeated over and over) to Adoption and through Confirmation from peers and reinforcement of the basic ideas on to Advocacy.  We now need to take the entire Planet through this cultural transformation and it is best done by working both with current political, scientific, educational, business and thought leaders, and with the people as a whole working in concert.  The image I use these days to demonstrate this transformation can be found in my dropbox.

We have assembled for the start of this project a team of 30 well-known international climate leaders who will be asked to apply their enormous energy, networking skills and fund-raising acumen to bring this umbrella project to fruition, not to simply work on one small facet of the issue.  We expect them to think broadly and "system-wide" to mesh what we propose with all of the other actions happening around the planet in order to effect a mobilization that will address and solve the problem both from the top down (where most of the energy has been expended) and from the bottom up.  Our core team is just the beginning and we see the need to expand this team by bringing in more experts in more areas, and by making certain we do what MIT has done through the CoLab, and remain open to ideas and individuals who can help.

I am old enough to remember Victory Gardens, Gasoline Rationing, Bond Drives, and Fireside Chats and the spirit of inclusion and purpose that pervaded society during World War II, and I know that spirit can be rekindled, but it will take efforts by every facet of society including schools, churches, civic organizations and all the other players listed in our proposal, plus many more, to arouse the populace to action.

I hope this is helpful to get readers to decide to vote in this category and not dismiss what we are doing as trivial or fatuous.  This is how big problems get solved, by people coming together with good intent, framing the problem and being open to the wisdom of crowds to get to a solution.

Dave Finnigan, Director, Climate Change is Elementary.

 

The Global Plan: Make Climate a Top Priority for Action by Every Global Citizen and Organization is, without exception, the most well thought out, actionable and inclusive of any proposal ever submitted within the CoLab experiment and should be selected/supported by those that truly understand that we need such broad based efforts if we are to realistically challenge the power base which has brought us to this global scale point of collective suicide.

All of the other 4 Global Plan proposals, currently in the voting stage, are supported, either directly or indirectly, within this proposal (including my own) and thus voting for this highly inclusive plan would be supporting the entire spectrum of proposals.

In brief, we fundamentally need to rally around a comprehensive and inclusive central plan, such as this proposal offers, so that the effort(s) and funding can be focused with the most strength and done so in the shortest possible time: for time is not our ally in this life or death struggle.

To reject this proposal would be to be to reject the existential need to substantially confront the power base which threatens our very existence. 

In the simplest words: which side of the struggle do you wish to support?

Michael

Gene Preston - If you don't like the plan, ask to join our team and offer ways that we can strengthen the plan to make it work for you.  We are not exclusive, we are inclusive.  Please join us and make it better.  This plan is not a finished product, it is a work in process.  If you have the heart for the work, please join us.

Mosessite - With regard to our sudden spurt in last minute votes, in order to cool the "arms race" that was going on, we put off asking our colleagues for votes until the end and that is all you are seeing.  There is nothing untoward here, just a lot of hard work over the past 24 hours, corralling voters.  We do not have a natural constituency, like vegetarians, who can be easily found, so we have waited to ask our concerned friends to register and to vote.  It does take about 3 minutes to contact a colleague, explain CoLab and ask them to register and vote.  This is the natural process.  Wonder how Citizens Climate Lobby got 401 votes in 2015 and 1247 in 2014 for the same proposal?  They worked their lists and asked their concerned colleagues to vote.  That is the established and legitimate process. 

We would like to offer members of your team, and your voters, the same opportunity that we offered Gene Preston above.  One part of our existing proposal is that people should cut back on their meat consumption.  If we win, please join the team and help us to mobilize consumers to follow a pathway from skipping meat once a week to totally converting to a plant-based diet.  As we say over and over, our plan is an umbrella and we hope that all of the finalists will join us to work together with the dozens of other proposals we have identified, and that together we can find, or come up with, ideas not yet formalized into proposals.  This is not the time to start an argument, it is the time to unite for a common good.

Then we can go to the funding agencies as a broadly based consortium of MIT sanctioned proposal authors and supporters and get the money necessary to carry out all of our proposals.  In our opinion, this contest is not only about a single noble idea, like becoming vegetarians, but is about a huge range of ideas that have in common the fact that they are all about "bubble up" rather than "trickle down."

We look forward to working with your team.  Let us not wrangle, but let's create a "super team."

 

Dave Finnigan

You are starting to make obvious fraudulent mistakes in creating fake accounts. For example, today you are creating multiple profiles with similar names and screen names with only slight variations.

The following 6 accounts  were all created minutes apart on 12/5/15 around 6:00am
- Nouhaila Bezoui (nouhailabezoui)
- nouhaila bezoui (bezouinouhaila1998)
- Hamid Bezoui (hamid.bezoui)
- Lamyaa Bezoui (lamyaab)
- lamyaa bouzi (lamyaaaaa), and
- lamyaa baroud (lamichaa)

Also, the following 2 accounts  were all created minutes apart on 12/5/15 around 5:00am 
- imad iraki (imadoo)  and
- imad iraqi (imadhgdjugcb)

You are using obviously fake names, like "imad iraki" - seriously? There is no such name as imad. There is "Amad" but no "imad,"

Please stop this fraudulent behavior!

Instead of trying to mobilize more votes during the last two days for my proposal, I had to spend all my energies and effort documenting fraud. And, instead of gratitude, you want all the my investigation and analysis to be deleted?

I understand that vote surges occur at the end. But there are specifics to the intensity of this Moblize Now surge that still raises concerns. Given limited data, resources and time, I was only partially able to document some aspects of their fraudulent voting.

1) 66 votes in a 3-hour period at 2.7 minutes for vote, including 36 new members, is highly dubious

2) members with similar names and screen names, joining at the same time, is also improbable

That fact that these two issues may be part of sabotage makes them even more serious. They should be public, if only as a deterrent. Voting fraud need to be seriously addressed since they place the credibility of the program at stake. Moreover, it serves as a huge disincentive to others who play by the rules. 

Dear Fellows 

some unusual comments have appeared on the MIT CoLab from mohammad115. Google Translate gives a translation that does not seem to make sense. Can you please suggest a resolution?

Thank you in advance.

Faithfully, Delton

Winners have been announced for the Global Climate Action Plan contest!