SE and climate change brainstorm distilled

I've already posted a summary of the brainstorming sessions we had last year. I'd like to distill my notes even further for our first meeting of the new year, tomorrow.

There are three themes that came up:

• Access to information
• Improve the SE of climate models
• Reduce emissions

Unpacking these themes covers most of our ideas from the brainstorm:

• Access to information. raise awareness of climate change and our impacts (e.g. interactive models and games, cool visualisations, querying), provide decision support tools (e.g. 'what-if' models, hand-held footprint reader), and enable data sharing (e.g. metadata management, querying)
• Improve the SE of climate models. collaboration support, V&V, workflow tools, reproducible research tools, modularisation, programming skills.
• Reduce emissions: low-power software.