Your Idle Computer Could Help Calculate Global Warming: Scientific American

Better climate models are key to understanding how best to protect the environment and food production, but they require massive computing resources. You can help. Climateprediction.net allows researchers to parcel out simulations to computers that are online but not being used to full capacity. More than 96,000 idle computers in 138 countries have already been tapped to run thousands of simulations.

From the comment section: Scientific American

But the Earth hasn't warmed in 10 years despite rising greenhouse gases. If anything the global temperature has begun to fall in the last 2-3 years. So why would I allow my computer to burn fossil fuel derived electricity to feed a climate model which cannot account for this hiatus?