The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. The vast majority of peer-reviewed studies, science organizations and climate scientists have found the Earth is warming and that the warming is man-made and a problem, but Wyoming's relationship with climate science is complicated at best. The state also has vacillated on whether and how K-12 students should learn about climate change. Like its predecessor Yellowstone, Cheyenne will help better predict weather and, over the long term, climate change. Downturns in coal, oil and natural gas extraction — in part because of competition from renewable energy — have pinched state revenue.

Source: ABC News February 17, 2017 17:13 UTC