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Climate Change Experiment. - You Take Part
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15/03/2006 12:50:41
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Forum:
Weather
Category:
Climate change
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01104451
Message ID:
01104602
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12
I installed the program a while ago, but failed to mention it here. It seems a worth-while cause.

It automatically runs with a low priority, so that it doesn't interfere with normal work. If you leave the computer for a while, a screensaver becomes active, showing the current status.

>Hello Forummers
>
>Saw this prog on the BBC last night, re: Climate change:
>I thought "I know where I can get some recruits for this experiment"
>
>Take part in the largest climate change experiment ever.
>
>Using 1,000s/millions of indiv. PCs, all running a climate modelling prog (supplied) in the background, each with a different slant, can exhibit real synergy. All of us together can produce the most comprehensive and accurate future climate model, better than any of the few super-computers working on it.
>
>"We need the computer power you're not using. An experiment developed for the BBC by climate scientists, led by Oxford University, using the Met Office climate model. "
>
>Go to this URL to get your copy of the prog (you can watch it working), download it and let it run
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/
>
>Tery
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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