Climate change worries me. So I’m glad to learn that the BBC is sponsoring an experiment, to simulate climate change. It uses the power of individual computers, similar to the immensely popular SETI@Home.

I downloaded it to my puny laptop, only to realize it cannot run it. For now I’ll have to be content biking to work, living summer without air conditioning, and hoping for moderate weather.

I would still encourage other souls with desktops to install and run it, though. To learn more:

• Download the software at climateprediction.net.
• Learn about climate change that the BBC’s climate change website.

SETI@Home as over 5 million participants. This one only has a few hundred thousand. And knowing if the earth will catch fire in 50 years, is probably more pressing than finding E.T. drinking chocolate on a distant planet.