is a required field.
At a minimum, we hope that this on-line forum will help educate the general public about the real issues involved in global climate change.
More importantly, by constructively engaging a broad range of scientists, policy makers, business people, and interested citizens, this forum may help develop proposals and policies that are better than any that would have otherwise been developed.
If the project is successful in its grandest ambitions, it will lead to the creation in a few years of a societal institution that is comparable to (though perhaps somewhat smaller than) Wikipedia.
It will be an on-line community used routinely by scientists, politicians, journalists, and anyone with a professional interest in climate change.
It will also be a standard resource for educators, students, and any citizens who want to learn about climate change. And it will be a place where any citizens who care can either express their opinions about climate change directly, or delegate their "proxy" to others who will vote on their behalf.
In short, it could become a combination of an on-line simulation game for climate change, a kind of Wikipedia for controversial topics, and a form of electronic democracy on steroids.
