Met Office’s super-computer controversy

Hi Guys,

I hope that you are having a good day.

The UK’s Mail Online Science and Tech section on the 27th August 2009 reported that the Met Office’s weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters.

I wouldn’t go as far as that. It is not polluting directly. What it does is guzzle electricity which in the global warmist / environmental camp translates to a carbon footprint.

What bothers me is that they keep on trying to infer that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. That is pure bullshit. Carbon dioxide is one of the building blocks of life. Plants absorb it to grow and animals, including us, exhale it as we breathe.

As far as I’m concerned it is a waste of time and money. Let’s face it, it can hardly predict the following day’s weather accurately, so how will it be able to predict the weather/climate change in 1, 10, 20 or more years into the future especially when it predicted a “BBQ summer” which turned out to be another wash-out summer with the occasional nice day.

When it comes to modeling anything on a computer the old adage still holds true – garbage in, garbage out.

The super-computer is pretty impressive, as it is more powerful than 100,000 standard personal computers. At a cost of £33 million it is capable of 1000 billion calculations per second and uses 1.2 megawatts of energy to run. And so it does appear that others may use a tad more electricity than St Al Bore.

When you go on their website you can see that they have invested quite a bit of time and effort on global warming/climate change. Unfortunately for them there is an easier way of predicting long term climate change and it has nothing to do with carbon dioxide or man made “pollution” – it relies on observing solar activity such as sun spots etc to determine whether it is going to get hotter or cooler on the cosmic spec of dust we call earth.

As always, I wish you everything I wish myself.

Until the next time.

Alain

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