Scientists have shown for the first time that human activity has made extreme rainfall and floods around the world worse in recent decades.
Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth’s climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers – time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.
Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday Feb 2011 News, p.3