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  Climate science chewing up supercomputing resources

  An "infinite" demand for Australia’s supercomputing resources could threaten the quality of climate change science if more high performance computing isn’t found, a leading academic in the field has warned.

• Gillard faces tough sell on carbon package

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be wearing out her shoe leather and hitting the airwaves to sell her carbon price package to a tough audience.

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  CSIRO offers climate change data online

  The CSIRO has launched a new website aimed at providing public access to 35 years’ worth of climate change data collected by the agency and the Bureau of Meteorology.

• George Negus on why the NBN should be beyond politics

  CIO talks to one of Australia's most respected journalists about the importance of communications technology

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  Tired of climate change sceptics? There's an app for that.

  An Australian scientist has created an iPhone application to help debunk climate change sceptics' theories.

• Council tackles climate change

  Adelaide local council to benefit from emissions budget software

• Microsoft, Google unveil climate change Web apps

  Microsoft and Google have built Web applications designed to highlight environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that run through Friday.

• Copenhagen Countdown - Data Centres

  Data centres need to become centres of excellence in delivering cost effective computing power, says IBRS advisor, James Turner.

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  Copenhagen Countdown Part 1: Power Management

  In the lead up to Copenhagen, Computerworld spoke with CSC CTO and National Director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Bob Hayward, Fujitsu's director of sustainability, Alison O'Flynn, about the top five technologies that could help organisations and individuals reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.

• Copenhagen Countdown - A look at ways ICT can help

  With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) due to kick off in Copenhagen on December 7 and the country's politicians debating an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the Australian ICT industry is gearing up for what some suggest could – and should – be a green revolution.

• Gore says supercomputing can be killer app in climate change

  PORTLAND, Ore. -- Former Vice President Al Gore today told an audience of scientists, programmers and system builders at the SC09 conference here that their work is essential in the effort to avoid global catastrophe caused by climate change.