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The Discovery of Global Warming June 2010
The supercomputer room at the National Center for Atmospheric Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado (shown here) in 2002. This was one of only a few machines in the world capable of handling a full Global Climate Model. Such models, which take into account hundreds of different phenomena and their interactions, are among the largest jobs handled by any computer. Every 5-10 years a model is moved onto a more powerful computer. Courtesy the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). © 2002 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. All Rights Reserved.