Doom for the whole family!

In keeping with the mandate of public broadcasters everywhere to kill all joy with flashy tax-funded graphics, the BBC has a new online Flash game called Climate Challenge that, according to Lee Jones of Spiked Online, is possibly the most miserable game ever created. As ‘President of Europe’ you have a century in which to save the planet from the scourge of climate change by eliminating Europe’s carbon output and convincing the rest of the world to follow suit. It’s a game you can only win by screwing the electorate and destroying the fruits of modern civilisation. In other words, a deadly accurate depiction of political climate change solutions. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to get worked up over CO2 emissions when they look like nothing other than happy popping little balls of fluff.