# 4.1 Climate design tool

The ‘Climate design tool’ is a simple model that predicts the effects of different types of geoengineering, mitigation and adaptation on future climate change, and the consequences of these actions for humans and other living things. You will use this to develop a geoengineering design for 2030–2100, and then explain your choices. Can you design the best possible future?

Open the climate design tool. (To open this link in a new tab, select and press ‘Ctrl’ (Windows) or ‘Cmd’ (Mac OS X)).

This is a tool for exploring how you would balance competing priorities. Here is an explanation of how it works. Refer to the climate design tool as you work through the below.

OpenLearn - Could we control our climate?
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