Thursday, December 30, 2010

Freak weather could have been predicted : Nature News
UK Met Office is being held back by a lack of computing power, says its chief scientist Julia Slingo.
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[Q] The UK has had big snowstorms both this year and last. Will this kind of weather be more common in future?

We don't know. That's exactly the sort of thing we need more computing power for. We probably have the models. We'll launch a project in the next few months to look at this question.
International Conference: Communicating Disaster (Spreading Climate Propaganda)
Now I’m not saying that there should not be conferences on how to communicate in the event of disasters, and that some of the content of this conference won’t be useful. But I am concerned that this conference also has the primary function of teaching how to propagandize weather events so that they “do become understood as having negative social impact” and are due to our current social prosperity.

1 comment:

Shug Niggurath said...

"We completely failed to predict the last couple of winters, and over-egged the summers. What we clearly need is … even more money, that'll do it!"

These people clearly think all of our heads button up at the back.