Climateprediction.net
What it's all about: Climateprediction.net, based at Oxford University and the Open University in the U.K., describes itself as "the world's largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st century." This distributed computing project is designed to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2080 and to test the accuracy of climate models. Experiments include estimating the possible effects of climate change mitigation strategies and an investigation of the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.
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I contribute my unused computer cycles to this project as it analyzes the effects of global warming. This article itemizes 12 charitable projects to which you can contribute YOUR unused computer cycles to. Some are looking for extra-terrestial life, others are looking for a cure for cancer. The ten bucks a month it costs me to leave my computer on all night with the BOINC programs running is my little contribution to mankind. I wish we could get all the computers in business, colleges, and schools involved, as they have thousands of computers, maybe millions, that could be used for a good thing. It does seem to be a good place to spend some stimulus money, as it directly facilitates research.
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