Thread: Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project'

Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project' - 07 May 2008 - New Scientist

In the wake of a thousand-year drought in Australia and last weekend's lethal cyclone in Burma, the world's climate modellers are drawing up plans for a global supercomputing centre that would provide detailed local forecasts of future climate change.
Meeting at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, the scientists liken the billion-dollar project to CERN, the international particle accelerator near Geneva, and to the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. They hope to present their plan to the G8 meeting in Japan this summer.
The modellers say they need a centre with computing power of 100 petaflops – two thousand times greater they have access to today.

I am sure that there will be those who will jump on this to claim

a) it proves the scientists do not know what they are talking about
b) Climate change is not happening
c) it is all a global conspiracy
d) all of the above

Originally Posted by Bowerbird

Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project' - 07 May 2008 - New Scientist


I am sure that there will be those who will jump on this to claim

a) it proves the scientists do not know what they are talking about
b) Climate change is not happening
c) it is all a global conspiracy
d) all of the above

I am sure there really is no need to be redundant.let them tell it to themselves.

Originally Posted by Bowerbird

Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project' - 07 May 2008 - New Scientist


I am sure that there will be those who will jump on this to claim

a) it proves the scientists do not know what they are talking about
b) Climate change is not happening
c) it is all a global conspiracy
d) all of the above

How about instead we do something meaningful and useful and have a Manhatten Project for clean, cheap, renewable energy instead? Kill a few birds with one stone, not to mention expand your range of influence?

Originally Posted by Luigi

How about instead we do something meaningful and useful and have a Manhatten Project for clean, cheap, renewable energy instead? Kill a few birds with one stone, not to mention expand your range of influence?

When it comes to renewable energy there are an awful lot of innovation going on - unfortunately up until now there has been little monetary funding either in direct support or in the ability to borrow/raise money to do the research required.