The Climate Scoreboard is an online embeddable widget that allows the public, journalists and others to track progress in the ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard allows users to check, on a daily basis, whether proposals in the treaty process commit countries to enough greenhouse gas emissions reductions to achieve widely expressed goals. 

A team from Sustainability Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ventana Systems has designed the Scoreboard to show the estimated temperature increase in 2100 if current proposals within the negotiations were to be implemented. The analysis behind the Scoreboard, based on the C-ROADS computer simulation, is also available on the Scoreboard site, as is a short video about the Scoreboard.

The Scoreboard is based on the C-ROADS (Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support) computer simulation, which is carefully calibrated to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report results. C-ROADS emerged from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and allows users to input mitigation proposals for China, India, the US, the European Union, and other nations and regions. It then simulates these emissions’ impacts on greenhouse gas concentrations, temperature change, per-capita emissions, cumulative emissions, sea level rise and other indicators.

The Climate Bathtub Simulation is a brief, animated, interactive simulation game that teaches several principles regarding the dynamics of the global carbon cycle and climate change. Designed for children and adults, its purpose is to improve understanding of how changes in carbon dioxide emissions will affect levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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The online simulator provides an interactive environment in which people can learn about stocks and flows and then see how GHG emissions and removal flows accumulate to determine atmospheric GHG concentrations.

You first are introduced to the stock-flow concept through an interactive Java applet. You explore how stocks accumulate the flows into and out of them using a water tank metaphor. You can draw on your screen any pattern you like for the inflow to and outflow from the tank, then immediately see the resulting pattern for the stock, and animate the result. The stock-flow applet should be useful in system dynamics and modeling classes of any type, whether or not the class addresses climate change.
After exploring the relationships between stocks and flows with the water tank, you can see how these concepts apply to the climate. The simulator presents you with a simple scenario for future atmospheric GHG concentrations. You draw on your screen your estimates of the rate of GHG removal from and emissions into the atmosphere that would achieve the GHG concentration scenario. The simulator then provides you with context-sensitive feedback on how you did, and you can then cycle back as many times as you like.