[ProudFossil]

You are saying that the real problem will be to know when you have the right or correct answer. True. In the traveling salesman problem you can put values on the connections and then look at the sum of the values in order to choose the correct solution from the multitude of solutions given by the computer. However if you use the computer to model global warming, which of the answers is the correct one? Only a proponent of the current whacko stuff on it (read AlGore) would know.

Fun stuff.

[TalonDJ]

However if you use the computer to model global warming, which of the answers is the correct one? Only a proponent of the current whacko stuff on it (read AlGore) would know.

Yup, no matter how much computer power you toss at it, if some hack global warming fanatic input the numbers and is interpreting the numbers then the data will show whatever he wants it to show.