Check out this HEXUS.headline for full details - including some quick-and-dirty hands-on with the app - and let us have your thoughts.The BBC is bringing all guns to bear on the contentious subject of climate change, with programmes on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4 that examine the science and the politics, as well as the possible consequences.
As part of this effort, the corporation wants tens of thousands of users of Windows and Linux PCs worldwide to download and install a distributed-computing app that runs in the background and can harness the unused power of all these PCs to carry out predictions on climate change.
The target is a minimum of 10,000 PCs. When that's reached, the BBC says, calculations will be carried out faster than on the world’s "biggest" computer. However, it's hoping that many more than the minimum sign up.
Feb 20th - update on the TV programmes
These have started kicking off now!
The first programme - Meltdown - finished 25mins ago but is set to be repeated at midnight.
The second programme - El Nino - started 25mins ago, finishes at 11pm and is set to be repeated at 1am.
The third program - Five Miles High: Jetstream - starts at 11pm and is set to be repeated at 2am.