Climate Interactive -- Public simulator and Webinar

This is essentially a RT (What do you call this for blogs? RB?).

You've heard about Climate Interactive before from me, me, me, and Steve -- they build simple climate simulations to be used in political decision-making. They've recently released an even more accessible version of their simulation software:

C-Learn is the more accessible, online version of the C-ROADS simulation, which was recently seen in US State Department Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing's plenary address in Bonn Germany to the UNFCCC. Now you can explore how changes in fossil fuel emissions from three parts of the world, plus deforestation and afforestation, will affect CO2 concentrations, global temperature, and sea level rise. And you can make your own graphs to show others your simulation experiments.

It also means that anyone who wants to run a mock-UN negotiation policy exercise such as "the Copenhagen Climate Exercise" has a simulator to back them up.

Try the sim, give us feedback, and let us know how you are using it! Send it to climateinteractive [at] sustainer [dot] org, or submit your information on our Climate Interactive site.

You can't play with C-ROADS online, but there is an upcoming public webinar to show off and discuss the software on June 3rd @ 11:00am EST. Details:

This session will include interactive demonstrations of C­-ROADS (we’ll ask “what if” questions of the simula­tor), description of past and potential applications, and an open discussion about how open architecture simulators could help contribute to effective policy de­sign and dialogue towards a stable climate, particularly aiming towards Copenhagen in 2009.