Tag: CLIMATE CHANGE

Writing a 'green' story without showing bias towards either contentious camp of weird-beards is about as hard as it gets for a humble blogger -- but I have to try. After all, Download Squad is all about downloads, right? We might be heading for a brutal ice age or sweaty apocalypse -- but either way, even if humanity is near its end, the downloads must go on! And so I give you Green Map, which ...

The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your ...