What should we humans do about climate change?
Somehow, our species has to answer this question. And you can help.
Anyone - from experts to ordinary citizens - can use this site to develop plans for what we humans can do, vote on the most promising plans, and debate the plans and other issues.
Our first goal is to influence the negotiators in the UN Copenhagen climate talks by
- developing high quality plans for what the negotiators should agree to and
- having at least 5000 people register their opinions about these plans on this site before December 1, 2009.
About the Climate Collaboratorium
The home page offers users a very high level overview of the kinds of issues important to the climate change debate, and links to the major functional pieces of the system.
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The Climate Collaboratorium allows large groups of people to work together in developing plans to address climate change.
Users generate plans by:
•Selecting sets of actions and setting out their rationale for them, and
•Selecting simulation models that project the physical and economic impacts of those actions.
Users can view existing plans, comment on them, and vote for the ones they find promising.
Users can also take part in debates about actions which cannot be readily modeled or ones for which similation models are not yet available.
Your ideas matter! Anyone from experts to policy makers to concerned citizens can add their perspective. Even the smallest contribution can play a part in creating a solution to this pressing problem. For more on how the system works, see About the Collaboratorium
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