Comments on: UPDATE: UK Met Office Super Polluter http://insidehpc.com/2009/08/27/uk-met-office-super-polluter/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: DKRZ commissions new climate super, learns from UK Met’s PR fumble | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2009/08/27/uk-met-office-super-polluter/#comment-198800 DKRZ commissions new climate super, learns from UK Met’s PR fumble | insideHPC.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:01:32 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=6861#comment-198800 [...] Remember the flap over the  UK Met office’s supercomputer and the charges it was a “super polluter?” Good times. Well, it seems that the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) does too, and is taking steps to sidestep the controversy they went through. From a story at Times Live The custom-built machine at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in the port-city of Hamburg can take any region and forecast how that place’s climate will alter with global warming. [...] [...] Remember the flap over the  UK Met office’s supercomputer and the charges it was a “super polluter?” Good times. Well, it seems that the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) does too, and is taking steps to sidestep the controversy they went through. From a story at Times Live The custom-built machine at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in the port-city of Hamburg can take any region and forecast how that place’s climate will alter with global warming. [...]

]]> By: NIWA upgrade to use UK Met castoffs, with greenwashing by IBM press machine | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2009/08/27/uk-met-office-super-polluter/#comment-181830 NIWA upgrade to use UK Met castoffs, with greenwashing by IBM press machine | insideHPC.com Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:52:27 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=6861#comment-181830 [...] lineup with a green brush. Why try so hard to spin the story? This is possibly a reaction to the recent spate of bad press the UK Met has gotten for its IBM supers, or an attempt to get out in front of controversy in New [...] [...] lineup with a green brush. Why try so hard to spin the story? This is possibly a reaction to the recent spate of bad press the UK Met has gotten for its IBM supers, or an attempt to get out in front of controversy in New [...]

]]> By: Peter http://insidehpc.com/2009/08/27/uk-met-office-super-polluter/#comment-180345 Peter Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:04:08 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=6861#comment-180345 I encourage people to read the Register article. They did a good job of looking at the data in the spreadsheet to figure out what was really going on, and concluding that this isn't worth the publicity its gotten. They point out that most of the facilities at the top of the list are EHS hospitals. ("UK's government run health care is destroying the planet" ;-) That the Museum of Natural History is higher on the list than the Met Office. And there aren't any power plants on the list. Appears to be a case of one UK journalist (using the term loosely) picking on the Met Office for some unstated reason. (Political? Bad forecast messed up his daughter's wedding?). And then a bunch of other newspapers and blogs repeating and linking to the story without looking at what was behind it. I encourage people to read the Register article. They did a good job of looking at the data in the spreadsheet to figure out what was really going on, and concluding that this isn’t worth the publicity its gotten. They point out that most of the facilities at the top of the list are EHS hospitals. (“UK’s government run health care is destroying the planet” ;-) That the Museum of Natural History is higher on the list than the Met Office. And there aren’t any power plants on the list.

Appears to be a case of one UK journalist (using the term loosely) picking on the Met Office for some unstated reason. (Political? Bad forecast messed up his daughter’s wedding?). And then a bunch of other newspapers and blogs repeating and linking to the story without looking at what was behind it.

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