At Deloitte University, located in Westlake, Texas, employees have the opportunity to do simulation classroom learning where they are working on situations that are bound to happen in the field.

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Considering that, a few years ago, it was rare to get the computer time needed to do even a single geoengineering simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model, this investment of time and effort marks a big step forward.

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And if you believe that you do you are exposing yourself to the lure of simulation entrapment.

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This might have something to do with the emergence of relatively complex and rich simulation and strategy games that leverage the size of the iPad display.

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To do this, you could run a "Monte Carlo simulation" in which you plug historical weather data into a computer and then roll a pair of virtual dice 10, 000 times.

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Because the simulation realistically mimics the visual experience of a fall, many people do topple over, and may even feel their gorge rising, as though they were falling through space.

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