New Scientist: "Distributed climate model aims for errors "

A new distributed computing project is aiming to put error bars on the global warming predictions made by computer models of the Earth's climate.

Until now, a lack of computing power has meant the complex models could only be run a small number of times. But many repetitions are needed to assess the uncertainty in, for example, a predicted rise in temperature.

The project, called climateprediction.net, was launched on Friday and hopes to provide the computing power required by using the spare computer time of thousands of volunteers. Each person downloads a program that performs the model's calculations while showing its weather patterns swirling over the planet.

This reinforces the claims by some that our "climate crisis" is based on junk science and a politically motivated problem.