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New Climate Change Warning

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-warmer-every-day dept.

sebFlyte writes "A new grid computing climate research project, climateprediction.net, has come up with its first major results, and they're really not good news for the planet according to the BBC. The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought."

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  1. Help climateprediction.net! by miope · · Score: 5, Informative

    The climates models are computed using the BOINC platform (distributed computing in your PC, similar to SETI, etc.).

    Please, help the project donating your idle CPU cycles, go to: the homesite of the project and download the client.

    The client (BOINC) supports Linux, Windows, MAC OS, etc.

  2. Re:First test of this distributed model by chickanmonkey · · Score: 5, Informative
    From climateprediction.net Introduction to climate modelling

    The equations are tweaked, within reasonable boundaries, so that the model does as well as possible at producing past and current climates (compared to archived observations).

    I really can't beleave you give them so little credit as to think they would overlook something so bleading obvious as to test the model before using it. Do you discount everyone you disagree with this easily.

  3. Re:You have to prioritize by metamatic · · Score: 5, Informative
    Is he worth hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives? Because that's how many his men have killed since he was in power.

    And guess what? We killed ten of thousands ourselves "liberating" them, and now the civilian death rate is worse than it was under Saddam.

    And they didn't just die from bombings, we're talking rape and torture. And no, not the kind of torture where people have sex in front of you and make you undress, but the kind where things are shoved up your ass that don't belong in your ass, where you are slowly killed, you know, real torture.

    You mean like the Iraqi teenager who was seen in Abu Ghraib, lying on the floor with his anus bleeding while US troops discussed sodomizing him with metal objects? I guess that story didn't get reported on FOX News, huh?

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