This graph has me intrigued

This is the output from my Global Thermometer - a work in progress when I am not just plain shattered from a hard days graft.

This is the average temperature plot of around 2680 weather stations every hour from around the globe, from Afghanistan to Yemen, but heavily North America biased (btw over 3 million individual temperature measurements taken to create this graph )

Each rise and fall of the orange line is another day gone by. But it's not the orange line that has me puzzled it's that green daily average temperature and the consequent wiggle in the Blue 30 day average


What is causing the fairly regular oscillation in the green line as it heads ever further into the northern hemisphere winter?

These must be waves of cold and warm air passing across North America but even over this time period they are on a steady 7 to 8 day cycle - the days are just the harmonics

Beautiful isn't it. The Earth breathing in and out

Cycles in Nature you never even realised were there


Dave

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/10...-aliens-extraterrestrials


Earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens, say scientists

UN should co-ordinate plans for dealing with extraterrestrials and we can't guarantee that aliens will be friendly


These must be the same type of UN scientist that claims that a trace gas responsible for all food and consequently life on Earth is going to warm the planet by 6C during this century

and the same type of scientist that claims that Nuclear Power is clean, safe and carbon neutral



Dear Real Scientists

You really need to get a grip on these clowns. The whole scientific discipline is being brought quickly into disrepute . Science's integrity is at stake.

That has to be worth making a stand for.

I despair when carefully collected datasets have been sacrificed in the name of MMGW with excuses which are the equivalent of "My Dog ate all my raw data"

It has to stop. Wild extrapolation has to be replaced with measured reality. Both measured in word and results

Scientific research has huge value to Society. The value of the profession of Scientist needs to be upheld.

That value is being eroded and undermined. Don't let it slide away from under you through the actions of politicking alarmists

Dave

It couldn't be the Gulfstream. All the MMGW pundents say it's dying. Did you get a new "space" heater from the invading aliens?

Here's the story of buying a Litre of Petrol in the UK

The price of 1 Litre of Petrol is today 128.9 UK Pennies

To get those 128.9 pennies to be able to drive my car I have to earn 226.46 UK pennies including VAT

~15% is added to that figure by a recruitment agent before they invoice my employer

My employer pays this sum and on account of my endeavours the company I work for makes a profit that it pays Corporation Taxes on

My Recruitment Agent pays his tax and buys his own Petrol with my 15% and those 15%'s of many others

I pay Tax in the form of VAT payments, Social Security and Income Tax to the tune of 97.56 UK pennies

This way I am left with the 128.9 pennies to buy my 1 litre of petrol

20% of the 128.9 cost is Value Added Tax which amounts to 25.78 pennies

of the 103.12 pennies left over 58.95 pennies is taken in fuel duty (another tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon_oil_duty)


This leaves the petrol station with 44.17 pence for that one litre of petrol that I had to earn 226.46 to buy

1 litre of fuel has provided 182.29 pence in tax directly from me (and additional indirect taxes in my employers corporation tax and my recruitment agents taxes)

but this is not the sum total of the taxes taken from my one litre of petrol

Those working for the petrol station and employed in every step of the way from oil extraction to refining and delivery all pay their personal taxes from that 44.17 pence

and so called "Big Oil" pay taxes on their enormous profits

It's Big Government that is cleaning up on our Petroleum powered vehicles

If direct taxation on Petrol is 412.7% how likely is it that this government cash cow is going to replaced by a more environmentally friendly alternative form of propulsion?

Do we see the benefit, environmentally or otherwise, of paying 182.29 pence in tax for each litre of fuel we buy?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/ne...for-2m-bonus-2182730.html


With that 1 litre of fuel I can travel 7.7 miles


Some conversions 7.7 Miles =12.4Km

Petrol 128.9p/litre £5.86/Imperial Gallon $2.04/Litre $7.72/US Gallon €1.528/litre

I have to invoice for £10.29 to buy 1 Gallon of Petrol
Cost of 1 Gallon of Petrol £2.00 from the supplier of the goods

Written like this shows the true absurdity of the situation

...and then there is Vehicle Excise Duty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Excise_Duty




LOL


p.s. .....and fuel duty will go up by 1p/litre (+VAT) on the 1st April 2011, 2012, 2013 Kerching

I didn't write this today in the Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/...zed-science-costs-us-all/