The Life Scientific - Myles Allen on understanding climate change

Professor Myles Allen has spent thirty years studying global climate change, trying to working out what we can and can't predict. He was one of the first scientists to quantify the extent to which human actions are responsible for global warming. As a lead author on the 3rd Assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change in 2001, he concluded that ‘most of the observed global warming was due to human influence’. More recently, (having established that calculating a safe concentration of greenhouse gases was very difficult indeed), he worked out instead how many tonnes of carbon would be acceptable, a shift in emphasis that paved the way for the current Net Zero carbon emissions policy. Myles tells Jim Al-Khalili how our ability to predict climate change has evolved from the early days when scientists had to rely on the combined computing power of hundreds of thousands of personal computers. He sheds light on how the IPCC works and explains why, he believes, fossil fuel industries must be forced to take back the carbon dioxide that they emit. If carbon capture and storage technologies makes their products more expensive, so be it. 

Legh Richardson:

Luciano Bacco:

Poll:The UK’ s new £1.2bn supercomputer.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/poll-supercomputer/

It appears that the readers of the engineer have voted against spending 1.2Bn. for various reasons given in the comments.


Legh 

By The Engineer 25th February 2020 10:40 am
Affirmative and negative replies are almost balancing,
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/poll-supercomputer/

 

Legh Richardson:

Interesting read. But it still hasn't stopped the flooding.

Being able to predict five days in advance was unable to protect peoples property that now affects peoples lives. What practical use is it to be able to predict the way the jet stream moves around and consequently the quality of weather when we are unable to stop the UK from sinking into the ocean......

IMO We need the skills of Geologists and Engineers to provide new forms of soakawys to provide Acquafirs, sumps and water storage. This would provide a reatively clean source of water for all the various reasons one might consider the use of water.

If the Byzantines could do it so can we...perhaps?

Legh

Even this is a good move to try to minimize the problem of  flooding in UK:

Environment Agency call for new homes to be flood proof

https://www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/environment-agency-call-for-new-homes-to-be-flood-proof/5104515.article

Head of the Environment Agency (EA) James Bevan said that new housing should only be built on flood plains if it is immune to flooding.