Penny Wong to go easy on carbon emissions trading scheme | The Australian

THE Rudd Government has no ambitions to set an example by moving dramatically ahead of other countries with its emissions trading regime, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has indicated.

Senator Wong told The Weekend Australian the Government had "very deliberately" timed the final decisions on the limits or "caps" it would put on Australian greenhouse emissions so they would be taken after a crucial UN meeting in Copenhagen next year.

"We will clearly have strong regard to the outcomes of Copenhagen when we are taking those decisions," she said.

A powerful machine to quickly convert garbage in to gospel out

One of the most powerful research supercomputers in the country was unveiled today at Swansea University, at a centre that will use it to model climate change scenarios.

Known as "Blue Ice" the supercomputer, which is supplied by IBM, is capable of running 10,000 "model years" a week as scientists look to evaluate the effect of various complex inputs, including glaciers and ice flows, at once.