Okay…You Fix The Climate
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 18th, 2009
How about a little fun today?
Think you have all the answers to fixing our climate issues? Think you can do a better job with the budget? Okay, prove it.
Fix the climate. - Play the game.
Details….details….what are the details?
As a participant in this game, you need to to figure out a way to help save the planet from the effects of climate change up until 2010. A cute Frog is your partner. You have to help him by choosing the smartest ways to help the planet feel better.
The deal is this: You have 250 billion US dollars available each year to spend to figure this out. You can also save up money to spend on other good stuff. The game lasts for 90 frog years which is about one week of game playing. Based on real scientific results developed by the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Any players out there? Need more details? Read on…
Which response to global warming do you think will be the smartest for the planet? Should we spend money on adapting to living in a warmer world? Should we immediately regulate greenhouse gas emissions to minimize the causes of global warming? Should we invest in technological solutions like a large-scale manipulation of the planet’s atmosphere?Different solutions to climate change will achieve different things, and cost varying amounts. Help the frog saving the planet from climate change in the smartest way.
How do you do it?
You have to help him by investing in the smartest solutions to climate change. The game lasts for 90 Frog Years – each one corresponds to one week. The cash balance tells you how much money you can spend on the 8 different solutions to climate change at any given point in time. The balance grows over time. You have 250 billion US dollars available each year. This amount corresponds to real estimates of the potential cost of avoiding damages from climate change. The actual total cost depends on the solutions you choose. If you spend it smartly, you can save money to help the world in other ways: doing ‘Other Good Stuff’.
This timeline tells you what year you are in. The time is accelerated so one Frog Year corresponds to 2 hours; that is 12 frog years per day or 90 frog years per week. So the game will last for 90 frog years or about one week in your human terms. You have to help your frog during this week, by choosing the best ways to make the Earth feel better. If you spend your money wisely, you can save up money to spend on other good stuff.
Four Prizes
This game has four prizes – one for the frog that tops each Hi-score in the end of week 1.
Each prize consists of one iPod with key material from the Copenhagen Consensus Climate Change Projects, and signed copies of the two exciting books ‘Cool It’ by Bjorn Lomborg and ‘Global Crises, Global Solutions’ edited by Bjorn Lomborg.
The winners will be notified by: Jan 5, 2009.
Readers: Think you can do it? Wanna try? Go ahead, It’s Friday – give it a go.
Roy: Hi – good to hear from you. I am a bit concerned from your blog comment. How are you and is there anything I can do for you?
Anna: I am aware that there are issues getting on…so sorry. Thanks for being persistent! Hafa Adai!
HI Al: How are you?
Got to run…it’s my early morning..peacin’ and blissin’ out….
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michelle
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December 18th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Michelle
I would like to send you and Zen Lill a postcard from Guam and a DVD. Would that be okay with you?
Hafa Adai
December 18th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Sounds like fun. I’ll give it a try.
Al
December 18th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Anna from Guam, that would be lovely, thank you for thinking of me also, Mischa can forward to my home address. Happy holiday to you, Hafa Adai – I love your greeting, what exactly does it mean, hello/goodbye like caio or ??
Al, thanks for asking after me also, I’m fine just working my ass off so I can take some time off now through Jan 5, have to do PT work but I’m OK with that. I’m sorry health issues have kept you and Howie down lately. I hope your holiday season is as pleasant as possible : )
Mischa, lots to read and video catch up, will get to it later – have parties to attend all weekend, can’t wait, one is a buyer of my clothing line and tomorrow it’s another seller, bioth have bucks and know how to run a pary : ) hee hee and ho ho ho…
Holiday jokes for you: what’s the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa? Santa stops at 3 ho’s ; )
Check in again soon! Luv and happy holidays to you all, Zen Lill
PS – women of the MM blog – if I’m on the blog only sporadically right now, here’s my advice, weigh yourself daily between now and New Year’s Day and adjust your eating accordingly : ) OR kick your workout’s up a notch to cover the ‘collateral damage’ – hee hee hee…!
December 19th, 2009 at 6:53 am
ZL, your reference to women as HO’s in the above joke is politically incorrect. Ta’s up, dollar squeezed (poor George), and shoulders back. At ease, Happy Holidays.
Al ‘amode