Wheels coming off wagon !!! (well the stabilisers anyway ;) )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/02/climate-week-splitting-green-movement

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/02/climate-camp-disbanded?intcmp=239

Apparently despite being in and out of Chris Huhne's office on a regular basis the greenies don't think they have enough influence and lobby muscle, so they want to set up a 'People's watchdog'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12620647

Our old friends Futerra show up too!

@RossH

How odd- the Guardian reviewed on it in October 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/31/fate-of-the-world-review

@ Messenger

It was apparently release on the 28th of Feb 2011, so it must have been delayed.

Bugs in the models...? Damn those sneaky testers if so!

Surely the BBC are just recycling old news again- Fate of the World came out last year, didn't it, if not earlier?

@ lapogus

Was just about to post this and noticed you beat me to it. Being in the industry, if GCMs can be used to make a game like this, I am even more worried about their validity than before (if that were possible).

It's just a game, and even the most complex of games are much simpler than you think. I wonder which GCMs were used for this?

Sir John will present the findings of the Government's Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Report and discuss how to feed a future population of 9 billion people healthily and sustainably in the face of climate change.

The future of food and farming
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/1540/the_future_of_food_and_farming

Apparently serious climate scientists were involved in the making of this game - so we can use the term playstation modellers without any irony!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12615599

"Computer strategy game Fate of the World gives gamers the chance to save a virtual world from climate catastrophe.

Using real climatic models, it gives gamers and environmentalists the chance to test policy ideas on a global scale. Its developers intend the game to be fun and to help increase awareness of the complex nature of fighting global warming.

Players get to set policy initiatives over a 200-year period and watch as the outcomes of their decisions are played out.

The game's developers have used official data collected by international bodies such as the International Energy Agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from the US (NOAA) and the United Nations.

Economists and non-governmental organisation including Oxfam and Friends of the Earth also contributed..."

MO on the Beeb this morning asking us to measure contrails and wind speed for them.
Apparently to measure wind speed you have to blow bubbles and time them over a known distance. Contrails creating clouds also cause warming, it is all explained at their new Opal website.

Wow

The Carbon Brief guys are good.. Bishop hill is slacking ;)

Finding this out at the Carbon Brief

Climategate to Cancun The Real Global Warming Disaster Continues...
by Christopher Booker
by Richard North

;)

http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158570&SubjectId=1023&Subject2Id=1456

http://www.carbonbrief.org/profiles/richard-north