Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Consensus deniers!: Now even the Guardian wonders whether extreme weather might become *less* common in a warmer world

Extreme weather forecasts: web users unite to power climate change project | Environment | The Guardian
From today, anyone with a computer and internet access can be part of a huge, pioneering climate change experiment, probing the controversial question of whether extreme weather events will become more or less common as the world warms.

By running advanced climate models while their PCs are idle, participants will estimate how often heatwaves, floods and hurricanes will strike in the next few decades. The initiative will also indicate how much of the blame for these events can be attributed to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans.
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To tackle the question of how much human activities are to blame, the weatherathome.net project will process data from the past 50 years.

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