this week's climate change thread

[Dru]

this sounds sort of like seti@home

 

i am certain both j_b and fairweather, jim and mtngoat will be anxious to run this model in order to help with our understanding of global climate change.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994159

[catbirdseat]

Basically what they are saying is they want to determine how sensitive the model is to initial conditions. There are uncertainties in the parameters they input. If a small change has a large effect on the prediction, then the "error bars" will be very large.

 

It's like the alalogy that has a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan can cause a hurricane ten years later in the Atlantic.

[lummox]

fukin a thers climate change goin on. its called 'autumn'.

 

[scrambler]

Only in the northern hemisphere. It's Spring down under.