Fiorina faces the D.C. press corps, but offers few specifics - Inside Bay Area

She deemed climate change a "serious issue" but at the same time suggested the science surrounding global warming is less than conclusive.

Al Fin: Ghastly Gore: Make Me Rich -- Or Die!!!

Mr. Gore is not just kidding around here. He went to divinity school. He understands how power is handed out in this universe. If he cannot be the president, he will at least be a billionaire global climate czar.

Twitter / insideHPC  [is it?]

Gore: selling a rainforest for the wood is like selling computer chips for the silicon.

Twitter / supercomputin'09

Whew. So, Al gives us a 1 1/2 hour advertisement for his businesses mixed with weak jokes and vague aphorisms #sc09

Twitter / David Stack: Computer modeling and supe ...

[Gore]: Computer modeling and supercomputing will play "the critical role" in meeting carbon climate challenge.

Flashback: 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.