It's a Friday morning, right before lunch, and the sixth day of a seven-day conference on human adaptation to climate change. It's a good conference, but the consensus among attendees is that another PowerPoint presentation might make them puke. Which is probably why Pablo Suarez's session on games and climate change is particularly well attended. Suarez, the associate director of programs at the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Center, thinks that playing games will help us better prepare for a warming world. Famers, fishermen, shanty town dwellers, Red Cross volunteers, climate scientists, clergy members, donors, and members of parliament from Argentina and Uganda have all played games his program designed. These aren't high-tech video games like Halo.
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