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Published online 2 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070226-14
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Policy gets to grips with reality
Virtual tours could help build better policy decisions.
How would a sneak preview of the destruction caused by rising sea levels in a warmer world, say in 50 years' time, affect how much you'd be willing to invest now in carbon-capture technologies?
The film The Day After Tomorrow, which showcases some extreme, fictional impacts of climate change, gave one answer — of a kind — to that question (see 'Disaster movie highlights transatlantic divide'). But now an experiment is being developed by a group at the University of Central Florida in Orlando to check on the impacts of slightly more realistic sneak previews.
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