NotesâThere are a couple of things that you canât really dispute,â Nye explained to CNNâs Carol Costello. âSixteen of the last 17 years have been the hottest years on record. Thatâs just how it is.â
âI appreciate that we want to show two sides of the stories â thereâs a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess â but the two sides arenât equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are very concerned and you have a few people who are in business of equating or drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt. When you have a plus or minus percentage, thatâs not the same thing as not believing the whole thing at all.âUnfurl
NotesLooking for another way to use that aging VGA CRT screen hogging space in the closet? Try making your own dedicated weather screen by mixing together Google's meteorological data stream and some Arduino magic. It looks like parsing that Google Weather data was a bit of a challenge on the miniscule 2KB of RAM, but a tinkerer going by the handle Zmashiah has managed to do it. He's even managed to cram in a few extra graphical flourishes, including icons and background themes that change depending on the temperature and time of day. The entirely PC-free device grabs the data through an Ethernet connection and flashes up all the weather goodness in stunning VGA. Any meteorological mavens reading this can grab the full shopping list and procedure at the Instructables link below.FeedUnfurl
Notes"SERIOUS cold, Justen Ladda said, is when the sponge in the kitchen sink feels like wood or the toothpaste freezes or the refrigerator turns itself off, as it did one particularly frigid day last winter. Not that Mr. Ladda, a 56-year-old sculptor who has lived heat-free in his Lower East Side loft for three decades, is bothered by such extremes. âWinter comes and goes,â heâll tell you blithely, adjusting his black wool scarf and watch cap. (Along with fingerless gloves, long underwear and felt slippers, they are part of Mr. Laddaâs at-home uniform when the mercury dips.) "Unfurl
Notes"Just how cool has it been? We're at the tail end of the fourth coldest summer recorded in Ann Arbor since 1880, University of Michigan meteorologist Dennis Kahlbaum said.
The average temperature for June was down 0.8 degrees; average temps were down 4.6 degrees in July, according to National Weather Service data."Unfurl
Notes"Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986."Unfurl
Notes"There is continuing debate in the scientific community over the likely rate of future change: not "whether" but "how much" and "how soon.""Unfurl
Notes"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"Unfurl
Notes"WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:"Unfurl
Notes"Hurricane Ivan is among the most powerful Atlantic storms in recent history, and more such storms are likely in the future due to global warming, say climate experts."Unfurl
Arduino kit beams low-fi Google Weather to VGA screens -- Engadget
Summer in Ann Arbor is the 4th coldest on record - AnnArbor.com