Some like it hot: global warming is not just a scientific prediction - it's also a hot political football. (includes related article)

E | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

Dr. Ben Santer's computer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California goes cuckoo every hour, on the hour. No, it's not time for Bytes 'R Us: The computerized cuckoo clock sound is just to remind Dr. Santer to get up and stretch his legs. Otherwise he'd become so absorbed in his global warming climate models that he'd never move from his keyboard.

Welcome to the wonderful world of computerized climate projection, a window on the weather that is largely responsible for predicting that, because of our continuing addiction to the burning of fossil fuels, ...

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