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GeraldRube
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Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001 03:41 PM EDT
----------------------------------------Stormy weather Hurricane Mitch, the Oakland, Calif., fire of 1991 and the Chicago heat wave of 1995 are just a few of the environmental disasters that, in the last 10 years, have claimed lives and made for frightening news reports. These weather catastrophes seem to happen regularly, yet they invariably prompt nagging questions: “Is this normal? Has it ever been this hot?” If you ask a climate scientist, he will say no. To proponents of the greenhouse effect theory, at least, the last decade unleashed a dazzlingly deadly display of extreme weather events — which is just what happens when you turn the heat up on Mother Nature. http://www.salon.com/2001/10/23/weather/  |
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David Autumns
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Worth resizing to forum acceptable size
---------------------------------------- While one record is set in the North another is set in the South Think yin and yang (literally) ☯ That's just the ice floating on the South Polar Sea not the frozen continent 1.14 times the size of Russia the floating ice then add another 14 million square km for Antarctica itself. Nite all Dave  |
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David Autumns
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p.s. this is best viewed full size
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David Autumns
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The September 2012 result is in and the average temperature from 2564 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 18.44C
----------------------------------------Jan 2011 1.37C Feb 2011 2.85C Mar 2011 6.93C Apr 2011 12.25C May 2011 16.16C Jun 2011 20.45C Jul 2011 22.83C Aug 2011 22.19C Sep 2011 18.72C Oct 2011 13.50C Nov 2011 8.32C Dec 2011 4.78C Jan 2012 3.26C Feb 2012 3.84C Mar 2012 9.71C Apr 2012 12.45C May 2012 17.32C Jun 2012 20.59C Jul 2012 23.13C Aug 2012 22.11C Sep 2012 18.44C J-D 2011 12.584C F-J 2012 12.745C M-F 2012 12.795C A-M 2012 13.031C M-A 2012 13.048C J-M 2012 13.145C J-J 2012 13.156C A-J 2012 13.180C S-A 2012 13.174C O-S 2012 13.151C Here it is as a forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly  The graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 39,135,698 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe since the beginning of 2011  |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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39,135,698 individual temperature measurements---- Dave that is a lot of temp stations i wonder where they are??
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Not for those living in willed bliss [anything discomforting rationalized away] http://www.science20.com/chatter_box/why_i_am_peter_gleick-87183
 The Globe is still cooling, that's why the sum of all ice and snow on the planet keeps declining and the amount of vapor in the atmosphere has risen on average by now 5% [7% is 1C increase] over the past 3 decades. Visit my website for all the stats you'll not like (link at bottom of the sig area] P.S. Does anyone know where all that thick multi year ice went that was still there in 2007 when recovery began? http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/prin...=09&sd=29&sy=2012 And in case the Antarctic trump card is played, there's lots more melt water coming off the melting glaciers... sweet water freezes 2C earlier than saline water. Estimated mass balance loss in 2012 1500 cubic km (Greenland/Antarctic combined). That's increase of sea level by, well my math ain't good so the 4mm I compute could be wrong, but then a raft of scientists and their instruments already find the average is 3mm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19702450. If that continues straight line, that's another foot at the end of the century, but it isn't straight line... it's exponential, just like the CO2 in the atmosphere is. Stay dry, Brits particularly. |
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David Autumns
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Hi Gerald
----------------------------------------Here's the current list of stations that have their temperatures taken hourly by my box of tricks  http://www.theglobalthermometer.com/stations.cfm (Get ready for some heavy duty scrolling ) 2564 currently being sampled - 8760 hours in a year. If they all returned a valid result every hour (this rarely happens) then I would have 22,460,640 weather data records in my database every year Right this minute, since the beginning of 2011 39,207,281 station records have made the grade. It's a valuable resource and unlike other temperature series it is based on the raw data and i don't intend to lose it. "The dog ate my homework" is the scientific travesty uncovered by Climategate. The data is copied raw onto multiple addition drives within the server itself on a 12 hour schedule, for a speedy return to service if any of the disks fail. Then onto mirrored drives and then daily offsite. Worst case scenario we would lose a days worth of data collection that I would have to backfill from my second collector I have it covered  I really need to get its CPU fan fixed...soon Keep crunching while we are still allowed Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Oct 2, 2012 5:49:14 AM] |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Not for those living in willed bliss [anything discomforting rationalized away] http://www.science20.com/chatter_box/why_i_am_peter_gleick-87183 The Globe is still cooling, that's why the sum of all ice and snow on the planet keeps declining and the amount of vapor in the atmosphere has risen on average by now 5% [7% is 1C increase] over the past 3 decades. Visit my website for all the stats you'll not like (link at bottom of the sig area] P.S. Does anyone know where all that thick multi year ice went that was still there in 2007 when recovery began? http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/prin...=09&sd=29&sy=2012 And in case the Antarctic trump card is played, there's lots more melt water coming off the melting glaciers... sweet water freezes 2C earlier than saline water. Estimated mass balance loss in 2012 1500 cubic km (Greenland/Antarctic combined). That's increase of sea level by, well my math ain't good so the 4mm I compute could be wrong, but then a raft of scientists and their instruments already find the average is 3mm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19702450. If that continues straight line, that's another foot at the end of the century, but it isn't straight line... it's exponential, just like the CO2 in the atmosphere is. Stay dry, Brits particularly. Well what is the answer without hurting humanity--you know the developing countries are not going to give up the mainstay of energy-- |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Gerald new Nuclear build isn't the answer to a non-existent problem that's for sure
----------------------------------------http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2719932a-0c99-11e2-a776-00144feabdc0.html to this news all I can say is "Good" and just in case the FT put up their paywall http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/areva-horizon-idUKL6E8L2PRB20121002 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysect...or-contract-ends-bid.html Some people in my now native Gloucester may lose their jobs but that is a small price to pay. I didn't know I was moving into the hotbed of the UK's Nuclear Industry when I got here - very near to work is the former British Energy HQ - now EDF. I have had a desperate urge to plunk these everywhere around town  But I don't think I will need to - events have run their course. Hopefully soon our Government will realise that our Country's huge reserves of Natural Gas is the way to power our way to a more efficient, cleaner and greener future. Preferably before the lights go out or people die in the Winter as they can no longer afford to keep themselves warm on account of the current Government policies driven wholly by this Global Warming nonsense, Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Oct 3, 2012 6:05:11 AM] |
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David Autumns
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Genius
----------------------------------------http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europ...safety-refit-8196457.html However did they make Nuclear "Clean, Safe and Carbon Neutral" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome marketing |
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