Met Office forecasts a supercomputer embarrassment - Times Online

For the Met Office the forecast is considerable embarrassment. It has spent £33m on a new supercomputer to calculate how climate change will affect Britain – only to find the new machine has a giant carbon footprint of its own.

“The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year,” said Dave Britton, the Met Office’s chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes – generating an average of six tonnes each a year.

Global warming? Temperatures break 125-year-old record in New Brunswick

Claude Cote, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said communities across the province broke some long standing weather records.

The mercury dropped to 34.3 C in Fredericton Friday morning, which broke a record that was set in 1884.

“We did set some record cold temperatures in many communities including in Saint John and Moncton as well, but Fredericton was actually one of the oldest ones,” Cote told CBC News on Friday.