I need to improve my defensive code around the new NOAA USA layout

The new webpages are nowhere near as reliable as the old trusty ones with METAR observations

NOAA keep tweaking... they are not sure if Puerto Rico is in or out of the USA

There are some great news reports out there at moment discussing the made up truth. The collective madness is subsiding but it's going to take years until a Brit can say in polite company that he or she doesn't believe the ice caps are disappearing.

We'll get there. At least this guy is no longer in charge of Energy Policy (and Climate Change) in the UK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr5kR3BwUA

Maybe a new energy policy based simply on the most cost effective way to deliver power to the people of the UK might now be at least a possibility?

I wouldn't "prevent the exhalation of excess CO2 due to respiration" though

I'm now closer to 50 than 40

A life is unfairly short - make yours or someone else's better today if you get the chance.

Nite all

Dave

yet more of that alarming warming ;-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20977...res-plunge-MINUS-40C.html


All that disappearing never to be seen again snow

All these mild winters and roasting hot summers.... we're not getting

Man Made Global Warming is a huge joke

On us all

I'm sure it was warm.... in 2006

Good deal and Late Happy Birthday!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mountains?intcmp=122

Have a read it will make you smile it's atarts with

"The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows."

"The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall."

this then turns into

The scientists are careful to point out that lower-altitude glaciers in the Asian mountain ranges – sometimes dubbed the "third pole" – are definitely melting. Satellite images and reports confirm this. But over the study period from 2003-10 enough ice was added to the peaks to compensate.

and then by the end it's

"The new data does not mean that concerns about climate change are overblown in any way. (heaven forbid such a thing ) It means there is a much larger uncertainty in high mountain Asia than we thought. Taken globally all the observations of the Earth's ice – permafrost, Arctic sea ice, snow cover and glaciers – are going in the same direction."


What might this direction be? Horizontal like the Global Temperature?


Dave

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/usa-nuclear-nrc-idUSL2E8D9E820120209

If you put your finger in a flame and it gets burnt - do you do it again?