Climate science into the BoardRoom (CIBR)

该项目的目的是将气候变化模型的信息可视化，以便在一个名为2050年全球计算器的互联网“游戏”中显示出来。全球计算器的目的是在2015年巴黎UNFCCC气候谈判之前，激发并告知有关能源和气候选择的讨论。全球计算器让你对2050年的能源系统做出决定：我们是应该大量使用核能，还是给房子隔热，还是成为素食主义者？这些选择的影响随后以碳排放和对全球气候的影响来显示。在构建全球计算器的早期阶段，我们已经从能源和气候变化部了解到气候科学家和政策制定者的不同期望。网络工具的目标受众是商务人士，他们可能会有不同的期望。因此，我们想做的是使用全球计算器来展示这些差异，并努力找到一个可以帮助我们更好地沟通的系统。这意味着帮助气候科学家设计实验，给出与现实世界决策直接相关的答案，并帮助决策者了解气候信息的局限性，这样他们就不会要求不可能的事情。通过围绕全球计算器展开对话，提供一个反馈和建设性讨论的论坛，将改善气候信息在商业和政策中的使用。

The aim of this project is to visualise information from climate change models so that it can be displayed on an internet "game" called the the 2050 Global Calculator. The aim of the Global Calculator is to energise and inform discussion about energy and climate choices in the lead-up to the UNFCCC climate negotiations in Paris in 2015. The Global Calculator lets you make decisions about the energy system in 2050: should we use lots of nuclear power, or insulate our houses, or become vegetarian? The impact of these choices is then shown in terms of carbon emissions and the effect on the global climate. In the early stages of constructing the Global Calculator, we have already learnt a lot about the different expectations of climate scientists and of policy-makers from the Department for Energy and Climate Change. The target audience for the web tool is businesspeople, who will probably have different expectations again. So what we want to do is to use the Global Calculator to demonstrate those differences, and work towards finding a system that will help all of us to communicate better. That means helping climate scientists design experiments that give answers that are directly relevant for real-world decisions, and helping decision-makers to understand the limits of climate information, so they don't ask for the impossible. Providing a forum for feedback and constructive discussion, by starting this conversation around the Global Calculator, will improve the use of climate information in business and policy.