Climate and Weather
- Thread starter espola
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Wez
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Good God answer the f****** question
Bruddah IZ
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Bruddah IZ
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Wez
DA
I'm basically telling myself to fuck off, for repeatedly making the mistake of trying to engage you in conversation. I'll try not to make that mistake again, there is no more futile endeavor...
Wez
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Yea, not like there is a ton of people in here to dialogue with...we're stuck with whoever wants to participate.
Dialogue - that's funny. It seems to be a feature of anonymous, or quasi-anonymous, communication networks that any attempt at a serious discussion gets overloaded or sidetracked by trolls or would-be comedians. Izzy is not unique - he fits into a class of would-be experts who post long treatises someone else wrote and no one reads, and won't (or can't) carry on an intelligent (or even courteous) discussion about those posts.
I read on the web (so it must be true) that this month is the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, which took the internet out of the hands of academics and professionals and opened it up to the public (or at least to anyone with a cable-tv account). There was computer communication before that, but bulletin boards accessible by dial-up acoustic modems were easy to police. There were also email servers, soon accessorized with newsgroup servers - and that's about where and when the troublemakers, idiots and trolls broke in.
Newsgroups are a way of presenting a hybrid of bulletin boards and email in a topic-based hierarchy with techie-sounding names like comp.arch.386 (concerned with c0mputer architecture of the 80386 microprocessor), for example, or non-tech topics like rec.photo.misc (miscellaneous topics in recreational photography). An infamous newsgroup that I participate in is rec.skiing.alpine, which was composed of a couple of hundred regular posters until one of them started acting badly, which devolved into lost jobs, death threats, and eventually involved police and the courts. Even though most online accounts no longer offer direct newsgroup access, the fossilized skeleton of that group is visible through a google www application (naturally) here --
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.skiing.alpine
Bruddah IZ
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Bruddah IZ
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You're babbling
Bruddah IZ
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Hilarious.
Wez
DA
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/25/july_2016_was_the_hottest_month_on_record.html
Follow-Up: Just How Hot Was July 2016?
But there’s more to this. July is generally the hottest month globally in the year, because it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, which has more land mass than the Southern one. Land heats up faster than ocean, so northern summer adds more to the overall warmth. This means July was not only the hottest July on record, but the hottest month on record as well.*
Follow-Up: Just How Hot Was July 2016?
But there’s more to this. July is generally the hottest month globally in the year, because it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, which has more land mass than the Southern one. Land heats up faster than ocean, so northern summer adds more to the overall warmth. This means July was not only the hottest July on record, but the hottest month on record as well.*
Bruddah IZ
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I owe it all to my editor.
Bruddah IZ
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Wez
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"Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever. This has led to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that are unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. Their effects, together with those of other anthropogenic drivers, have been detected throughout the climate system and are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century"
espoola
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What does the zero represent on the left side of the thingimajigger?
Does it represent the utopian ideal average, or just what?
How much fluctuation are we talking about from 1880, (the end of the "little ice age") to now?