New US Supercomputer to study Climate Change
www.betanews.com/article/New_Supercomputer_to_Track_Climate_Change/1113605260

IBM has announced that the University of Colorado, in cooperation with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has acquired a Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate the ocean, predict the weather and analyze other complex climate phenomena that may affect climate change and cause ripple effects in the global economy.

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My take:
I hope that the U.S. won't use the supercomputer studies to justify that "predicting climate change is highly uncertain".

For example, the US has already used "climate change" instead of "climate warming".


Also, a flurry of recent CNN reports say "predicting climate change is highly uncertain".

The science debate behind climate change - Forecasting the future remains a contentious exercise
www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.science/index.html

A truly global problem - Costs, stakes, uncertainties high in climate change debate
www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.policy/index.html

This looks like university research, so I hope they will be leading the terminology, not copying CNN usage.

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I can just see three years from now they will get the same results that CPDN is currently.

Hi Llama

My cousin's son works at Colorado State in atmospheric science. He and Dave Frame know each other so I presume their universities will not want to duplicate efforts.

Maybe this is my excuse to save up for the plane ticket to Denver for a holiday in a marvellous place and to check up that the supercomputer is not wasting its time!
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