January 26, 2005

world’s largest climate change experiment: first published result

Speakers:
Dr Heike Langenberg, Physical Sciences Senior Editor, Nature
David Stainforth, Chief Scientist for climateprediction.net, Oxford University
Professor Bob Spicer, Director of the Centre for Earth, Planetary Space and Astronomical Research

Scientists announce the first results of the world’s largest ever climate-modelling experiment as it is published in Nature. The experiment gets participants across the world to download free software onto their computers which runs through climate scenarios while the computer lies idle. The results are reported back to the researchers via the internet and used to make predictions about the climate in the 21st century.