- The evidence is so clear now.
The climate is changing
and that changes due
to the greenhouse gases
that we've emitted as humans
through the last 150 years.
So there's a real need to act
if we're gonna meet the
goals of the Paris Agreement
and keep global warming
below 1 1/2 degrees.
We need to move to a
net zero carbon economy.
We need to do that really quickly.
- This is a really exciting
time for the Met Office.
Building a sustainable future
is very much at the heart
of the Met Office values.
And we're proud to be
working on a solution
which is gonna be operating
on 100% renewable energy.
- Something I'm really excited about
is the bringing together the Met Office
as a world-leading science
and research institute
with the Microsoft,
a world leader in
innovation and technology,
will allow us to do better together
than we can possibly do apart
in the battle against climate change.
- So the role of the Met Office
is to continue to explore
the science of climate change
and see if there are
any surprises out there
that we may not be expecting.
The second role of the Met Office
is to help chart those
pathways to a net zero future.
- There are three aspects
to this challenge:
weather and climate science
relies on big computing,
big and complex simulations, and big data.
The simulation codes themselves,
so the big and complex codes
that need to run on the supercomputer,
that delivers the advice
and the information we need
for our climate science.
And then there's the data itself.
And a crucial aspect is the platform,
the analysis or data platform
where our big data can sit
and be ready to be analyzed
and to serve our customers.
- In the first year of
operating the new supercomputer,
we expect to save 7,412 tons of CO2.
We're working together to
scale our social impact.
We're utilizing data science and AI
to solve real world
environmental challenges.
- Our new supercomputer's
not just innovative
from a technology perspective,
it's also innovative in the way
that we're going to partner with Microsoft
of the next 10 years to receive
supercomputing as a service.
- So the computer codes we use
to chart those pathways to net zero,
to establish what the
weather is gonna look like
as our climate changes.
This is big software run
on big supercomputers
that produces big data.
So really without that infrastructure
and that software and that
hardware and those computers,
we simply cannot do this task.
And so for me,
this is why the relationship
and the partnership
with Microsoft is so
central to what we can do
to help tackle this problem.