The Climate Collaboratorium is an on-line forum that allows large groups of people to work together in developing plans to address climate change.

The Collaboratorium combines three key technologies.

• Open modeling
  Simulation models can project the likely impacts of actions that are proposed to address climate change. The system will make use of some of the many existing models of the physical and human systems that affect climate. The Collaboratorium will also pioneer a new approach for extending and developing these models, radically open modeling.

• Large scale argumentation
  Large scale argumentation allows groups to summarize the structure and key positions held on contested topics. It works by structuring arguments into four types of entities: issues (or questions), positions, argument for (or pros), and arguments against (or cons).

• Group decision making
  The Collaboratorium will use voting and rating to allow the community select the most convincing positions in the debate and the best sets of actions to pursue.

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