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The climate models are crude in space and they’re crude in time, he continues. So there’s an enormous amount of natural phenomena they can’t model. They can’t do even giant storms like hurricanes. There are several reasons for this, Myhrvold explains. Today’s models use a grid of cells to map the earth, and those grids are too large to allow for the modeling of actual weather. Smaller and more accurate grids would require better modeling software, which would require more computing power. We’re trying to predict climate change twenty to thirty years from now, he says, but it will take us almost the same amount of time for the computer industry to give us fast enough computers to do the job.
The climate models are crude in space and they’re crude in time, he continues. So there’s an enormous amount of natural phenomena they can’t model. They can’t do even giant storms like hurricanes. There are several reasons for this, Myhrvold explains. Today’s models use a grid of cells to map the earth, and those grids are too large to allow for the modeling of actual weather. Smaller and more accurate grids would require better modeling software, which would require more computing power. We’re trying to predict climate change twenty to thirty years from now, he says, but it will take us almost the same amount of time for the computer industry to give us fast enough computers to do the job.
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