More "Do As I SAy, Not As I Do" Green Hypocrisy

This is priceless- a computer to model climate change is itself one of Britain's biggest carbon "polluters"... next they will be flying it around the world to show how we must all consume less. Brilliant!

From "Watts Up With That."

Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters

Excerpts from the story by the Daily Mail See WUWT’s original story on this

The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer designed to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters.

The massive machine – the UK’s most powerful computer with a whopping 15 million megabytes of memory – was installed in the Met Office’s headquarters in Exeter, Devon.

It is capable of 1,000 billion calculations every second to feed data to 400 scientists and uses 1.2 megawatts of energy to run – enough to power more than 1,000 homes.

The machine was hailed as the ‘future of weather prediction’ with the ability to produce more accurate forecasts and produce climate change modelling.

However the Met Office’s HQ has now been named as one of the worst buildings in Britain for pollution – responsible for more than 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

It says 75 per cent of its carbon footprint is produced by the super computer meaning the machine is officially one of the country’s least green machines.