How modeling helps to transition the world to renewable energy | 9am PT Tues, June 9, 2026

[Grigory Bronevetsky]

Modeling Talks

How modeling helps to transition the world to renewable energy Mark  Z. Jacobson, Stanford Tues, June 9, 2026 | 9am PT Youtube Stream Hi all, The presentation will be via Meet and all questions will be addressed there. If you cannot attend live, the event will be recorded and can be found afterward at https://sites.google.com/modelingtalks.org/entry/how-modeling-helps-to-transition-the-world-to-renewable-energy More information on previous and future talks: https://sites.google.com/modelingtalks.org/entry/home Abstract: Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the most significant problems facing the world today. This talk discusses the development of worldwide technical and economic roadmaps to solve these problems and the computer models behind the roadmaps. The solution to the problems is to electrify buildings, transport, and industry and provide the electricity with 100% clean, renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) and storage. Results indicate grids can remain stable at low cost worldwide. Aside from mitigating global warming, these roadmaps have the potential to eliminate over seven million air pollution deaths annually, reduce international conflict over energy, stabilize energy prices, reduce catastrophic risk, and create jobs. Please see https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/WWS-50-USState-plans.html for more information. GATOR-GCMOM: Weather-climate-pollution model: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/GATOR/GATOR-GCMOMHist.pdf LOADMATCH grid model: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/150Country/150-CountriesEGS.pdf   Bio:  Mark Z. Jacobson has been a professor at Stanford University since 1994. His career focuses on better understanding air pollution and global warming problems and developing clean, renewable energy solutions to them. He has published seven books, including “Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling” and his latest, “Still No Miracles Needed,” and 196 journal articles. In 2022, he was ranked as the #1 most impactful  scientist in the world in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and #6 in Energy among those first publishing past 1985. For his work on the computer modeling of black carbon’s climate effects, Jacobson received the 2005 American Meteorological Society Henry G. Houghton Award and a 2013 American Geophysical Union Ascent Award. In 2018, he received the Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award “For a distinguished career dedicated to finding solutions  to air pollution and climate problems.” In 2023, he was named one of the top 100 globally “who have made an impact on the  world this year” by Worth magazine. He has served on a committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, appeared in a TED talk and  on the Late Show With David Letterman, and co-founded The Solutions Project nonprofit. He served as an expert witness in the  first U.S. climate trial to win and be upheld, Held v. Montana, and the world’s first climate case to reach a settlement, Navahine v. Hawai’i. His work is the scientific basis of the U.S. Green New Deal and laws to go to 100% renewable energy worldwide.