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As an engineer but not a climate scientist, it is really difficult to make sense of these models. They come in at least three levels of complexity, where simpler ones are used to verify the output of the more complex ones.

If you want to try, Hector is a great one to start with: https://github.com/JGCRI/hector

I wrote a little blog post with an overview of some of the open source models: https://possibleplanets.com/2022/05/06/how-to-forecast-the-c...

Cool. I've been reading about analog computers recently, and here's a little history:

1936: Water integrator, used in USSR until the '80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator

1940s: Torpedo Data Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer

1949: MONIAC, another water integrator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine

1960s: Scanimate, of which there are still a couple in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate

Modern day: Slime molds, other biocomputers, and domino computer: https://youtu.be/OpLU__bhu2w

And of course, quantum computers.

It could be related to the large number of malicious or booby-trapped packages that have been uploaded recently to the index.