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Since your interview with an NCAR applied mathematician 13 years 
ago, Lisa, our global coupled climate models have improved greatly and 
confidence in their 
reliability as a prediction tool is extremely strong within the scientific 
community.  (Just think 
of the advancements in computing power and resolution capabilities over the 
past 13 years.  
Can you remember your computer or the internet from 1992?  Today's fastest 
super 
computers can do approximately 80 trillion calculations per second at peak 
speed.) 

I should mention that at the same time that I did that article about climate 
modeling/NCAR I was researching a project that involved a high-end 
superconductor testbed project which would involve 8 GIGABITS of computing memory.  At 
the time, I was blown away by the vastness of such an enterprise.  Nuff said.

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