Global Warming...

bobins · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: Global Warming...

Oxford University are running a HUGE climate change experiment using the aid of the public... not sure if you've heard about it in the us.. but its been all over the tv here... i konw im interested in how the results will turn out.

this is why im currently participating.

all you do is download a secure climate change model from THIS SITE

the model will run on your computer in the background. and so far as ive been using it it isnt a resorce drain, which is why it takes so long to complete i guess. they obviously dont wnat to hog your computer. your free to run the model and pause it at any time of cause. but me i've just left it running.

each person that participates gets a slightly different model. thus giving results depending on what our actions could be as a united globe..

then the researchers will gather together the similar trends from all the models that the 'people', us.. have ran and will have the most likely results.

hope some of you participate. it's somthing thats going to effect us all. and i for one am interested in the results.

check it out ppl.

bobs.
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The Nanite · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

A Bobins siting! Long time no see mate.

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bobins · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

hey hey.. how've you been mate.

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Mike · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

sounds kinda like that thing where you can donate some of your processor usage for some protein thing at some college that requires alot of computing.
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bobins · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

it kinda is. but you run your own model that your given. you run it when you like your not constrained.. to a deadline.

then your results are uploaded and they collate the results of all the models ran by themselves and the public.

and whalla... we have a global warming model...

i can predict some of it.. myself.. were all screwed if we dont do somthing about it.. lol.
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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

I went with the accelerated program...I cut the power to the CPU fan and let the program run.
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Mike · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject:

ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject:

Global warming is a win win situation.... if we warm up people in Siberia will be able to grow some food....if we go into a freeze people will go to sleep... either way do you expect to live forever???
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cobra · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:16 am Post subject:

Ricen · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

Didn't golbal warming start at the end of the last ice age ? Ya know, after global cooling. I belive if we look hard enough we may find a historic pattern here. Think

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DukeNukem · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

Besides some are now predicting another mini ice age during the next 200 years.

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Malanthros · Registered User Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 454

You should all ready State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Its mostly science fiction, but in his book the characters quote actual scientific works that were done about Global Warming. Michael even writes down links at the bottom of the page when he mentions a cited article. It's fantastic and will really open up your mind to the real non-threat of global warming.

And thank you whoever mentioned that we started a period of warming after the last period of cooling. Welcome to how the world has been working FOREVER!!

Oh, and if anyones worried about icecaps melting. That one iceshelf in Antartica that keeps melting and everyones so worried about, consists of about .2 percent of the whole place. The rest of it has been steadily growing in ice, not receding. Read the book i suggested, I swear it'll turn things around.

http://www.crichton-official.com/fear/
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loka · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

well aside from this i dunno how its been in other areas. but it hasn't been winter in boston in the last 2 years. it's been in the 40's-high 30's the entire winter and only 2 snow storms which is not normal. and its getting hotter in the summer so weather is changing here.
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