Climateprediction.net

Does anyone else on this here forum run any of the climateprediction.net climate models?

See here for full details: Climateprediction.net | The world's largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st century.

Basically you use your idle CPU cycles to help scientists run climate models which can only benefit mankind.

Maybe a team could be setup for Windows 7 Forum members?

There are quite a few 'folding' applications which are linked to weather mapping, SETI, finding huge prime numbers, etc... - but they all have one thing in common... because they will all undeniably increase your carbon footprint...

Not necessarily since I have a few machines that need to be on 24/7 but quite often they don't do too much during the early hours of the morning, so why waste power doing nothing when you could do something with those idle cycles to crunch some climate models.
Anyway look at it this way, those climate models are going to be run at some point anyway, so the energy required to do this will be used at some point.
It was worked out that the amount of energy used to make tea in the UK alone is 23 times that required to run the entire climate prediction experiment, and that assume 100% efficiency to boil the water.
Also most people running the Climateprediction models are more aware of their carbon footprints anyway and ofset this in other ways.
I think the benefits of crunching these models outweigh the cost in consumed energy.