The Boston Globe reports on the “Boston-Area Climate Experiment” at UMass Boston, an attempt to predict how New England’s climate will change as temperatures rise over the next century. Unlike some climate modeling experiments, this one isn’t running on supercomputers - it’s running on an old farm in Waltham, and is being conducted by controlling the actual environmental conditions of small plots of land.

The Boston Globe article points out a couple of ironies in this - first, this spring’s violent Nor’easter damaged the experiment by tearing the roof off it, and second, the experiment is running ceramic heaters 24 hours a day, constantly, costing more than $60,000 year for energy use.

Via: Climate of the future? - The Boston Globe

See also: The Dukes Lab at UMass Boston: The Boston Area Climate Experiment
[tags]new england, boston, climate, climate change, global warming[/tags]

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