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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No worries on the Ubuntu frront my favourite so far is Xubuntu
----------------------------------------But ... The Coldfusion code I write all my scripts/webpages in for TGT runs on Windows At least it's not 8  By the way there's absolutely no chance that April's CET is not going to finish up below average. No way at all. Rest assured that not even the finest climate data fiddle factory will be able to claim April alarmingly warm   |
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GeraldRube
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No worries on the Ubuntu frront my favourite so far is Xubuntu But ... The Coldfusion code I write all my scripts/webpages in for TGT runs on Windows At least it's not 8 By the way there's absolutely no chance that April's CET is not going to finish up below average. No way at all. Rest assured that not even the finest climate data fiddle factory will be able to claim April alarmingly warm I have not tried xubuntu but running Lubuntu on four crunchers--give them credit --they will find a way   |
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David Autumns
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Surely not
----------------------------------------http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80964&src=nha I thought the forecast was for continued drought Just like the parched and barren UK Has Caroline Spellman MP been visiting? |
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David Autumns
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Just superb
----------------------------------------http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/...-are-full-of-hot-air.html "Has there ever in history been such an almighty disconnect between observable reality and the delusions of a political class that is quite impervious to any rational discussion?" Most probably But not one that so directly affects us all today as this, to use an Americanism, doozy Dave |
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Harriscott
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The flood forecast wasn't entirely wrong, since the area with major flooding was in the Minor Risk area here: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/images/Sping_flood_riskmap_2013_4F.jpg Okay, it wasn't labelled Moderate or High Risk, but note that 2/3 of the continental US isn't labelled at all. PoliticalScience being what it is these days it took some courage to come up with this non-alarmist map.
The drought forecast (" Spring promises little drought relief for most of [Texas, the Southwest and the Great Plains, and Florida]") does look entirely wrong, unless one gets creative about "little". There is a nice 12 week animation that shows the drought-stricken regions steadily evaporating. (And my personal, limited, experience has been that drought maps do tend to be alarmist.) http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/12_week.gif |
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David Autumns
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Cheers Harriscott
----------------------------------------My USA Geography isn't good I see Mid West and immediately think dustbowl too many old movies I think |
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David Autumns
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My current contribution to the World Community Grid's total since joining on day 1 is 0.00958% according to BOINCStats
----------------------------------------1 in every 10438 points is mine The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 4.15 times this at 0.039744% 1 in every 2516 parts atmosphere is CO2 The other 2515 parts are not 1965 parts are nitrogen, 527 parts are oxygen, 23 parts are argon This is why CO2 is described as a trace gas Carbon Dioxide is one of the molecules used to create the entire planetary food chain... that 1 part in every 2516 - through photosynthesis . Without it nothing lives on this Planet. CO2 is not pollution. Without CO2 there is no Green at all |
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David Autumns
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/ap...g-climate-europe-flooding
----------------------------------------There must be ..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/un-climate-talks-bonn Ah yes there are The first article states "The EEA has found that the effects of climate change are already being felt across Europe" but they never elaborate. Could someone point me to where these Climate Change effects are manifesting themselves across Europe. April has been a terrible month in the UK one minute we have light bursts of rain followed by lovely sunshine and then another light burst of rain and then would you believe it lovely sunshine again. It's outrageous the damage we haven't inflicted on our typical weather.  It certainly hasn't been warmer than normal censored twice overnight commenting on this headline in The Guardian by George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/...ment-scientists-lobbyists A completely harmless suggestions to George that maybe just maybe his beloved Climate Scientists might be included in this group. Removed by the Guardian directly under the banner "Comment is free" Awesome. I will wear the "Censored by the Guardian" badge with pride. I'm Mark Twain in the comments btw Tomorrow it's May Dave [Edit 2 times, last edit by David Autumns at Apr 30, 2013 6:44:26 AM] |
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David Autumns
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Gerald no chance at all
----------------------------------------http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html January 3.5C 0.3C below normal February 3.2C 0.6C below normal March 2.7C 3C below normal April (to the 29th) 7.5C 0.4C below normal Looking out the window today 1C below mean April 2013 will be the 4th month on the trot (and one of 8 out of the last 12) where the average temperature is below the 1961-1990 mean Or I'm a monkey's uncle  Dave |
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David Autumns
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The April 2013 result is in and the average temperature from 2542 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 10.96C
----------------------------------------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 Oct 2012 13.28C Nov 2012 7.97C Dec 2012 4.11C Jan 2013 2.65C Feb 2013 3.50C Mar 2013 5.94C Apr 2013 10.96C 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 N-O 2012 13.133C D-N 2012 13.104C J-D 2012 13.047C F-J 2013 12.995C M-F 2013 12.997C A-M 2013 12.677C M-A 2013 12.554C Here it is as a forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly  The graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 51,971,014 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe since the beginning of 2011  Note: The above is preliminary. I will complete the annual audit over the May Bank Holiday (Now I have my working copy of Windows 7  ) |
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