Monday, May 28, 2012

Supercomputer will help researchers map climate change down to the local level - The Washington Post

"Would you rather go to a doctor who tells you what you want to hear, or what's really going to happen?" Loft asked. "Not everybody has the same answer to that, I guess. I'd like to know. And this machine's going to help us know more about how bad climate is, as a threat to human civilization, and I think that's a good thing.

"Dinosaurs didn't have any technology to know something was coming, so they just woke up one day and found out that the planet was destroyed. But if we can know about it 30 years before it happens, and do some things to cope with it, we can still mitigate the impact on human beings," he said.

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