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Captain Slow    Registered Member #3 Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003Location: Scotland Posts: 4651 | We have computers running that most of the time are not doing much, what if your computer could do something helpful, what if it could run something in the background that would help others. Weather you believe in climate change or not, and no matter what is causing it you can help by giving up some of your computing power in the search of the reasons why.  Paul Rose is a modern-day explorer. He’s spent many years in Antarctica and the Arctic, organising scientific expeditions. Now he sees evidence that the polar regions are in danger from climate change. So he decides to try and find out the truth about global warming: what's really going on with our climate, and what's it going to mean for the future? He starts by asking how the climate has changed in the past. Are the changes we’re seeing now part of a natural cycle, or are they something we’ve brought upon ourselves? And what can Viking voyages, the freezing of the Thames and ancient Bronze Age settlements on Dartmoor tell us about how our climate is changing? His quest comes up against a fundamental problem - a lack of computing power necessary to model what effect global warming will have in the future. But he meets a scientist with a brilliant idea. By making use of your computer - and thousands like it all over the world - we can carry out the largest climate experiment ever, and work out what is really going to happen to our climate over the next 50 years. We have computers running that most of the time are not doing much, what if your computer could do something helpful, what if it could run something in the background that would help others. If you would like to help out you can find details of how to do your part at the link below. http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange | ||
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| Registered Member #35 Joined: Tue Dec 30 2003Location: Lincolnshire England Posts: 2080 | I got it installed on my game sever (45) (128) | ||
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*hms*non Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 | me too for two days...... and now?? (17) (78) | ||
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| Registered Member #35 Joined: Tue Dec 30 2003Location: Lincolnshire England Posts: 2080 | Sit back and think wow I`m helping the planet (45) | ||
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| *HmS* Rambo Rob |
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 Registered Member #594 Joined: Wed Apr 06 2005Location: United Kingdom, Wales Posts: 236 | YAAAAAA Me too. (93) Hope it helps out (30) | ||
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| Captain Slow Registered Member #3 Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003Location: Scotland Posts: 4651 | A good computer will take 4 months to run its model and thats on all the time, thats why they need help, lots of computing power needed. Its a long term project, but your doing something thats helping predict how the earth will be in years to come with global warming. | ||
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| Life is like a box of chocolates... Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | Right - you can help them make incorrect forcast FASTER. LOL | ||
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 Registered Member #432 Joined: Tue Dec 28 2004Location: Spanish Fork UT Posts: 1681 | my computer is stupid when it come to weather. I am running seti on mine. looking for life out in space. too bad sometimes we could not turn seti inside out and look for intelligent life on earth argh Maybe I am being sarcastic. | ||
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