alculations per second and is capable of taking in 215 billion weather observations from all over the world every day. But despite its impressive computational power, and ability to give advanced warning, accurate long-range forecasts on a local level remain out of reach.
"It's the regional details that are important, about where the risks will be, where the rain will fall and getting that information to first responders as fast as we can," says Andy Kirkman, head of government services at the Met Office. That regional data could be provided in the future by the Met’s new supercomputer, which was announced on Monday and will be the most powerful climate supercomputer in the world. The government said that it will invest £1.2bn into the project. The supercomputer itself is expected to cost £854m, with the remaining funds set to go towards investment in the Observations network and programme offices over a 10-year period from 2022 to 2032. The machine will increase the Met Office computing capacity six-fold allowing it to better forecast for airports so they can plan for potential disruption.
The Met's new supercomputer will look to deliver at least a further three times supercomputing capacity in the last four years of the programme. But, aside from the extra processing power, the Met Office is also hoping the machine will make it easier to deal with the data coming out. “It's valued not just in the accuracy but making that data more available to people to work on,” Kirkman says.
Being able to do this will only become more urgent as global warming starts to change the environment. The computer will use all the data available to allow it to predict everything from reasonable scenarios, to what are termed “black swan events”, ones which are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic.
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king for himself and traveling on the bus - Francis, an Argentine who was elected on Wednesday, replaces Benedict XVI, whose papacy was plagued by a series of public relations blunders at the start of his reign that offended many. Benedict angered the Muslim world with a speech in 2006 in which he appeared to endorse the view that Islam is inherently violent, sparking deadly protests in several countries as well as attacks on Christians. After being revealed to the world, Pope Francis dined with the cardinals in a Vatican residence where he thanked them for electing him but then quipped:-
"God forgive you for what you've done!"
As Damian Thompson concludes in today's Telegraph editorial page article -
"It's a shame that Cardinal Bergoglio never had the opportunity to mingle incognito in the bars of modern Dublin, where he would have found an intensity of hatred for the Catholic Church that the Gordon rioters might have recognised. Young Irish people especially can hardly mention the Church without a curl of the lip. Older folk, meanwhile, feel miserably betrayed. It's the same story in, say, Boston or Quebec. How telling that the siblings of Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, no longer go to Mass regularly.
I know this is a downbeat response to what, for Catholics, is a joyful and hopeful event. But savage reform to the curia is required so that Pope Francis can (should he wish) take advantage of the successful Benedictine reforms: for example, the formation of a breed of bishop who – as the new Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth is demonstrating – are reclaiming their spiritual authority from hippy-generation bureaucrats and using it to promote the so-called "new evangelisation". To put it bluntly, a Church associated in the public mind with child abuse isn't likely to be good at any sort of evangelisation, new or otherwise. Nor can it face down its angry, condescending and well-informed enemies. So welcome, Holy Father. You know what needs to be done; do not stay your hand." (which has been changed to 'and let the sackings begin' in the online version)
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G VALUES, RESPECT FOR GAIA and EVER AFTER THINKING
as espoused in ... A handbook for creating the world that we want !
What WE CAN BE - WE MUST BE
zaadzsters of THE planet UNITE
ALL hail ! to Jon Symes, Phil Turner and particularly Ron Monnier for creating this superb "centre-piece" image for the children.
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The problems we face are rooted in the way we LIVE and the way we THINK, so these are what must change. A new, higher level of thinking will usher in a new way of living, in which social justice and environmental sustainability are enshrined and where there is no concept of exploiting other people or damaging our home, Planet Earth.
WE need every ounce of our ingenuity, determination &resolve right now to build this future.
Your Planet Needs You - Introduction
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In the context of “two nations POTENTIALLY divided by the same language” …
LISTEN to “THE View” of these children … and having LISTENED to the children ...
LET US ALL BE PART of SOMETHING BETTER
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Zaadzsters_et_al@gaia UNITE …
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KreaShine! said
Patience is a virtue :)
Love IS action :)
I have the sail ready…
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Michael said
We kan kreate a kickin' kosmic kidz klub of kindness…for ALL who care :)
INDEED WE kan
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yes, let's listen to the children…
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