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Specially in climate change, we need multidisciplinary research (for otherwise, a group of computert scientists lacks necessary knowledge for a sound discussion).
(1) what is the challenge, (2) existing approaches, (3) barriers, (4) what is the perspective in 5, 10 years, (5) what would you do with $10M grant? Questions to adress today. Voting on working group assignments starts now.
Climo-skeptisists: "It is not my problem. Let 'them' solve it". But whom? Who if not 'we'? (Herna Viktor)
"The problem with using the climate change predicting SOLWEIG model was the lack of graphical interface (caused by MATLAB textual interface)... " After introducing a simple graphical interface the usage acceptance raised up to 40%. (Rogardt Heldal)
"... facts are not science any more. We need scientific and computational imagination to solve grand challenges." (Stephen Emmott)
Stephen Emmott: we're not short of models, nor of data. But we need radically new thinking.
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