MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence and its approach to climate change problems

BLOGGER'S NOTE: The text below has been lifted from Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog, New York Times, April 25, 2008.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Center for Collective Intelligence is creating what it calls a wiki-style Climate Collaboratorium aimed at clarifying issues and options related to human-driven climate change. The idea began in a 2006 paper by M.I.T.’s Mark Klein and others (pdf alert). A video summary is on YouTube:

Link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2w2WBCn7ug