Extreme weather forecasts: web users unite to power climate change project

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Home PC users invited to carry out pioneering research by tracking links between global warming and extreme weather

Damian Carrington
The Guardian, Wednesday November 17 2010 -

From today, anyone with a computer and internet access can be part of a huge, pioneering climate change experiment, probing the controversial question of whether extreme weather events will become more or less common as the world warms.

By running advanced climate models while their PCs are idle, participants will estimate how often heatwaves, floods and hurricanes will strike in the next few decades. The initiative will also indicate how much of the blame for these events can be attributed to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans.

The http://climateprediction.net/weatherathome/">weatherathome.net project breaks new ground for the world's biggest climate forecasting experiment, http://climateprediction.net/">climateprediction.net, which has run nearly 92m years of climate modelling since September 2003, and delivered world-leading research published in journals such as Nature and used in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark 2007 report.

The key to the new project is its use for the first time of regional climate models, which can create realistic weather predictions, showing temperature, winds, rain and snow.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/17/weatherathome-climate-change-weather-project

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• Watch a video by the project's founders here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/nov/17/weatherathome-climate-change-weather-project

climateprediction.net was featured in this documentary: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x412899">Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey (Great BBC Documentary To Share With Any Deniers You Know)

Apparently DU has a team and are currently ranked at 259: http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4874693&mesg_id=4878569

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The republican/blue dog plan

Stick your head up your ass and maybe it will go away.

When the F 88 tornadoes are headed for DC the GOPers think they can just yell "JOBS" at it and it will go away.

[groundloop]

2. Not exactly correct, they'd filibuster the tornado into submission

[Hubert Flottz]

3. The people who are owned by the energy corporations only care

about their bank account. The world of the generations to come don't mean anything to them. Can't get any more stupid than that.

[Turborama]

4. Kick, for anyone else who might want to take part. n/t

:kick: