Posted on 07/22/2002 9:44:45 AM PDT by jdontom
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:41:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
State hopes to pave way with emissions law Davis says the 'greenhouse gas' bill to be signed today is an 'example for others to follow' By Chris Bowman -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Monday, July 22, 2002 Gov. Gray Davis today plans to sign a bill making California the first state to regulate vehicle exhausts linked to global warming -- atmospheric change that threatens to shrink water supplies, raise sea levels and worsen wildfires.
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Are you kidding? All the Sheeple out there that don't pay the least bit of attention to what's going on will have no idea what this bill means. And then there's "wet noodle" Simon who won't take a stand on ANYTHING against Davis. Face it - unless a miracle happens - California is screwed!
El Segundo - July 22, 2002
Predicting climate conditions and weather accurately all of the time may still be impossible, but scientists appear to be getting closer to this elusive goal.
Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are now using one of the world's largest supercomputers to evaluate the Earth's climate and predict the effects of events such as volcanic eruptions and global warming on the weather.
NASA engineers, working with El Segundo, Calif.-based Computer Sciences Corporation, installed and integrated a HP AlphaServer SC45supercomputer at NASA's Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. With the new computing capabilities, NASA scientists will be able to increase the accuracy of their predictions of the effects of climate changes, such as how much the Earth's temperature will rise in the future or where an approaching hurricane will go.
"Using the information from NASA's Earth- observing satellites to make more quantitative assessments of climate change and its relation to weather is a key part of NASA's Science strategy," said Dr. Richard Rood, Acting Chief of NASA's Earth and Space Data Computing Division.
In December of 2000, NASA, working with the General Services Administration Millennia contract, awarded a seven-year contract to CSC to help the agency achieve a 32-fold improvement in computational power for climate prediction. The installation of the new HP system marks the first step towards achieving the agency's goal.
"NASA scientists sought to improve their climate modeling and simulation capabilities," said Bob Scudamore, vice president of CSC's High Performance Computing Center of Excellence.
"This objective drove the requirements for greater computational power, memory and data storage. With this new technology in place, NASA scientists will be better able to understand the Earth's systems and improve our predictions of climate, weather and natural hazards."
CSC's High Performance Computing Center of Excellence installed the 512-processor HP SC45supercomputer at the NCCS. The system, which Scudamore estimates is one of the 20 fastest supercomputers in the world, more than doubles the center's current capacity.
CSC also installed a 32-processor HP SC45 system at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City as part of the Agency's overall computational plan. The new system will enable scientists to pursue climatic research at the Goddard Institute.
This September, CSC will help NASA increase its computing power further as it expands the center's computational capability another three fold with the installation of 880 additional processors to the existing HP system at Goddard Space Flight Center.
How can someone run so boldy early on and then succumb to the status quo view, being afraid to express an opinion on anything?
I hope there is one ready to submit to Jones today and the plan in place to get it circulated!
Simon has been given a platform on a silver platter, he could even get on the good side of all the labor Unions, who are against this.
That bill, AB 1058, actually was killed by the effort, but the legislators pulled a fast one and wrote the bill with a new number, AB 1493...because the first one "had a taint".
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