November 2012: Venice submerged in near-record floods
October 2012: Hurricane Sandy – impact of climate change?
September 2012: Powerful typhoon Jelawat in Okinawa
September 2012: Floods claim lives of hundreds in Pakistan
September 2012: Earthquakes Kills Dozens in Southwest China
August 2012: Rescue operations on after Iran quake
July 2012: Japanese island ravaged by flooding
July 2012: Flash floods devastate Southern Russia, scores dead
June 2012: 32,000 flee Colorado wildfire
May 2012: Strong earthquake hits northern Italy again
May 2012: Deadly wall of water as flash floods cascade through Nepal
April 2012: Monster tornadoes strike Texas
March 2012: Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks southern Mexico
March 2012: Tornadoes sweep across America: 29 dead
February 2012: Europe’s Deep Freeze
December 2011: Philippines Typhoon kills more than 1200
December 2011: Hurricane Force wind storm leaves destruction in Scotland
November 2011: Spectacular silent volcanic eruption in Ecuador
ICES Foundation
(Bob Bishop, President)
http://www.icesfoundation.org/
International Centre for Earth Simulation
Helping guide the successful transformation of human society in an era of rapid climate change and frequent natural disasters.
The ICES Foundation is a not-for-profit tax-exempt Swiss Foundation that was created in Geneva in the month of January 2010 for the purpose of attracting finances to build and operate a Swiss-based International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES), and to build a global network of partner activities.
The mission of ICES is to integrate the vast pools of knowledge contained within today’s multitude of scientific and socio-economic specializations and to develop next generation ‘holistic’ modeling, simulation and visualizations that accurately depict the medium and long term future direction of planet Earth.
ICES is a project for the common good that will provide enhanced decision support and improved scientific underpinnings to our current and future policy makers, especially with respect to the effects of climate change, extreme weather, geoengineering, resource depletion, hazard reduction and mitigation.
The ICES Foundation has been formed as a Public-Private Partnership and will actively seek close cooperation between multiple domains of society: government, academia, industry, ngos – both public and private.
This ambitious project is expected to take decades to fully achieve its mission and will require innovative breakthroughs from a core group of active professionals working in close proximity and drawn from multiple scientific and social disciplines. In addition, the ICES mission will require cooperation with a large number of specialized institutes and research bodies throughout the world, including with the Citizen Science movement in general.
Acting as a work platform for the program, and as soon as financing allows, the ICES project is planning to install and operate one of the ten most powerful computing and advanced visualization centers in the world, and to dedicate the facility to the furtherance of Earth System Science, especially as it relates to our modern society. In cooperation with its partners, it will also spawn several ‘proof of concept’ projects in well chosen locations as evidence to society of the value of holistically integrated scientific resources and models.
As a Swiss Foundation, the ICES Foundation is under the jurisdiction of the Swiss Confederation’s Department of Interior (DFI), and has elected the international companies of Pricewaterhouse Coopers and UBS as its auditor and its banker, respectively.