Thursday, January 27, 2005
Our world, it's a hot potato...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Alarm at new climate warning:
By Richard Black
BBC environment correspondent
Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. This figure is twice the level that previous studies have suggested.
The scientists behind the project, called climateprediction.net, say it shows there's no such thing as a safe level of carbon dioxide. The results of the study, which used PCs around the world to produce data, are published in the journal Nature.
Climateprediction.net is run from Oxford University, and is a distributed computing project; rather than using a supercomputer to run climate models, people can download software to their own PCs, which run the programs during downtime.
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The lowest rise which climateprediction.net finds possible is two degrees Celsius, ranging up to 11 degrees."
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FOR MORE CHECK http://www.climateprediction.net
By Richard Black
BBC environment correspondent
Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. This figure is twice the level that previous studies have suggested.
The scientists behind the project, called climateprediction.net, say it shows there's no such thing as a safe level of carbon dioxide. The results of the study, which used PCs around the world to produce data, are published in the journal Nature.
Climateprediction.net is run from Oxford University, and is a distributed computing project; rather than using a supercomputer to run climate models, people can download software to their own PCs, which run the programs during downtime.
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The lowest rise which climateprediction.net finds possible is two degrees Celsius, ranging up to 11 degrees."
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FOR MORE CHECK http://www.climateprediction.net
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