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SUMMARY:Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics prob
 lem - Tim Palmer (ECMWF)
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CONTACT:Doris Allen
DESCRIPTION:Whilst climate change is believed by many to be the greatest c
 hallenge facing humanity\, predictions of climate change\, both regionally
 \, and globally\, remain uncertain. Such uncertainties inevitably lead to 
 difficulties\, whether in guiding global policy to mitigate climate change
 \, or in guiding decisions on infrastructure investment to adapt to region
 al climate change. It is suggested that one of the principal reasons why i
 t has been so difficult to reduce these uncertainties\, lies in what\, to 
 many\, seems a rather arcane mathematical problem: do smooth solutions to 
 the Navier-Stokes equations exist? Although a solution to this problem wou
 ld win the solver a million-dollar prize from the Clay Mathematics Institu
 te (as one of its Millenium Prize Problems)\, I will argue that a solution
  may\, a fortiori\, have trillion-dollar implications in facing the challe
 nge of climate change.
LOCATION:MR15\, CMS
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