Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On Your PC 285
kpearson writes "climateprediction.net, a distributed computing project to predict Earth's climate 50 years from now, has a new add-on project to study THC slowdown (how climate might change as CO2 changes in the event of a decrease in the strength of the thermohaline circulation). This kind of rapid, extreme climate change is shown in the movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which New York City is treated to a 10,000-year-long ski season. Anyone can download the project's client software and participate in the simulation. climateprediction.net was previously mentioned in the September 13, 2003 article
Distributed Computing and Climate Change." Clients are available for various varieties of Microsoft Windows, but none are listed for other OSes.
Simulating a fiction...? (Score:2, Informative)
Or is the association with the upcoming movie merely some editorial license on the part of the
Looks like it will be a bad film (Score:5, Informative)
How much of the public will be mislead into thinking thats how it really happens? I still cringe whenever Armageddon is on.
wrong! (Score:3, Informative)
Where did you get all that from, tarot cards?
Re:THC slowdown (Score:5, Informative)
There are varieties of hash called pollen I believe, but they are "brand names" much like "northern lights" or "silver pearl" are to skunk herb.
Your dealer is either using the name in this way, or has bastardised polm. It seems to be a commonish error. But, now you know...
The reason why 100% female plants are preferred to males is that they are much stronger and more productive. The ladies give us concentrated trichomes containing high levels of THC/CBD, whereas the males contain little of the active ingredients and give us a headache and a weak buzz.
So, spread the word brother.! No more pollen. Polm!
Re:Concerning the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" (Score:2, Informative)
And what we learn from the movie is that this global warming you speak of causes a 10,000 year winter. Or, the warmer it gets, the more snow falls on New York
Re:wrong! (Score:3, Informative)
Freemars [freemars.org] - Gravitational interaction (tides on the Earth caused by the Moon) transfers kinetic energy from Earth to the Moon, slowing Earth's rotation and raising the Moon's orbit, currently at a rate of 3.8 centimeters per year.
another page [autodynamicsuk.org]
and another [astro.uu.nl]
and another [jimloy.com]
Re:Attempting to model the real world on this scal (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Southern Africa in Peril. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Concerning the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" (Score:4, Informative)
The Abrupt Climate Change FAQ [ucsusa.org] from the Union of Concerned Scientists, has a lot to say on the subject and the movie:
The other interesting thing it mentions is that Abrupt Climage Change refers to changes that happen over years to decades as opposed to climate change that is happening now over decades and centuries. Make no mistake, we have changed our climate more in the last hundred years than in the previous thousand years.
Re:Not gonna work (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Attempting to model the real world on this scal (Score:4, Informative)
Re:MODS: THIS IS _NOT_ OFF-TOPIC (Score:5, Informative)
Cheers
Dave Frame
climateprediction.net coordinator
For anyone not getting the "THC" jokes (Score:1, Informative)
Who wrote the script? (Score:5, Informative)
Bjorn Lomborg (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, it turns out many of his critics aren't very good scientists.
from http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/004625.shtml [reason.com]
No word of an apology nor headlines declaring Lomborg vindicated.
Posted by Ronald Bailey [mailto] at March 12, 2004 03:27 PMRe:Looks like it will be a bad film (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe that's the purpose of the movie?
The first couple of paragraphs in the following column are political commentary, so feel free to skip them and get straight to the scientific criticism of the movie.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28338-20 04May14?language=printer [washingtonpost.com]
Re:Bjorn Lomborg (Score:4, Informative)
Since I have not read the (now withdrawn) findings by the Committee, I choose not to base my judgements on their findings.
By the way - I wasn't even thinking of that Committee, but was thinking of a smallish 5 page (I think) dissection [math.ku.dk] (page 12 to 17 of that pdf) of a just a small part of his book - by Inge Henningsen, who is an associate professor at the Statistic Department [stat.ku.dk] of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences [math.ku.dk] at Copenhagen University [www.ku.dk].
She also notes in her piece, that he's not actually a statistician like they know them at her department, as he has a M.A in Political Science [ps.au.dk] from Århus Universitet [www.au.dk] and teaches "Methods" there as well. He is (as is noted) "an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Politital Science".
As to who has the better credentials when it comes to statistics - well, my oppinion is fairly obvious, but I've given you plenty of venues to explore yourself and leave you to draw your own conclusions.