The Web's prediction: warmer days ahead

More than 90,000 people worldwide have participated in a project operated by Climateprediction.net. Participants downloaded software that uses the spare capacity of their computers to model the future of the globe’s climate. The model breaks down the Earth’s surface into1,000+ zones, and predicts climate based on factors including cloud coverage, the rate of heat movement and rainfall rates. A total of 2,017 simulations were run, and all of them predicted temperature rises, most temperature rises were about 3.4 ºC, some results were much higher. Further, the computer the models predict that midway through this century, atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels will be double what they were before the industrial age. Results were published in the journal Nature. Link. According to the some scientists, climate change is not our fault and is not something we can predict or fix. This opinion is popular with the Coal Association of Canada, among others. Link.