To be sure, the study concludes that the overall impact of climate change on farming is expected to be large: Even with adjustments in both farming practices and trade, farming production would decline by roughly one-sixth, using the baseline scenario for climate change projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and incorporating weather projections over a 30-year period.
But weather projections and even the rosiest political forecasts do not predict that.
Use tools like WeatherSpark to create graphs of weather data and ForecastAdvisor to compare different weather projections.
"If you go out six hours, it can be pretty accurate," Dr. Gall said of weather projections.
The university's faculty and students, he said, helped create companies like Meridian Environmental Technology Inc., which provides computerized weather projections.
Long-range weather projections indicated yesterday that it wouldn't snow in Denver the last week in October, which is when the Indians plan to be there.
At that moment, he was monitoring weather projections from climate.com on his smartphone, trying to determine whether to cancel a scheduled crop-dusting flight because of what looked like a storm coming.
I grew up in New Orleans in an era when no one dreamed of evacuating for hurricanes because, for one thing, weather projections were less sophisticated and we never knew exactly where the hurricane would hit.
Mr. Hubay, she said, would base his estimates on an intricate combination of existing subscription sales, past single-ticket numbers for the production, star power of the cast, the opera on offer that night, and even weather projections.
These problems can include weather projections, financial modeling and modeling neural activity.
