What is your Weather? :)
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A Former User last edited by
The new ice age or a global warming? We can't have both, can we?
Carbon dioxide is now in every Earth documentary, like Surgeon General on cigarettes. Early this morning I watched episode 5 of Catastrophe, and the guy forgot to mention the AGW - while he did not forget to mention that we are about to enter a new freeze!
Is the AGW still a conspiracy by bureaucrats and bad scientists or is it a reality?
Can't they have a comprehensive proof to us wise guys at last? Or is science destined to become a new stupid religion - you believe, you do not? -
blackbird71 last edited by@joshl said in What is your Weather?
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Is the AGW still a conspiracy by bureaucrats and bad scientists or is it a reality?
Can't they have a comprehensive proof to us wise guys at last? Or is science destined to become a new stupid religion - you believe, you do not?It remains a theory - an attempt by certain people to describe reality. Because it is essentially based on computer models, a great deal of assumptions and interpretation get folded in by both the nature of the models themselves (what mathematical emphases are placed on which atmospheric/chemical processes and how they are theorized to interact over time) and in the quality of the data being fed into the models (which is constantly being tweaked - to compensate for certain things according to theory supporters and to intentionally create biased results according to critics).
A major problem relates to the backward look scientists take into historical climate records (either man-created or conclusions drawn from various geologic/geophysical traces) and what interpretation they make of what they see - and there's major disagreement over many of the claims made about what the "climate records" indicate. As a result, it is difficult (if not impossible) to accurately run the models against what occurred in the past to "proof" the models themselves in order to make accurate future projections.
Another thing to keep in mind is that our human understanding of the full role the sun plays on earth climate is limited since many solar processes are poorly understood (remaining unproven theories)... it is known that there is cyclicity in solar output (eg: sunspot cycles, for one), but the mechanisms and the full earth climatic consequences are not well understood yet. Part of the problem is that detailed research into all these things has only really gone on for the last 60-70 years and what we normally consider typical "precision" and "scope" of 'science' in such fields has only existed over the last 50 years - very short time spans in terms of something so long-term as 'climate'.
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A Former User last edited by
Watching documentaries lately, they can see levels of oxygen and whether a meteorite had stricken or not.:)
About the sun, I believe it's learnable. As a star, astrophysicists can see and compare with lots of observed objects in different stages...
Back to climate, last thing I heard was that the recent glaciation periods are related to variations in Earth's orbit around the Sun. There were other theories, however...Moreover, there are or may be other, extra-Solar-System factors. Like the System passing through an interstellar cloud of gas or something. Yes, there are some, and it may affect both the Sun and the space between.
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@blackbird71 said in What is your Weather?
:Another thing to keep in mind is that our human understanding of the full role the sun plays on earth climate is limited since many solar processes are poorly understood (remaining unproven theories)... it is known that there is cyclicity in solar output (eg: sunspot cycles, for one), but the mechanisms and the full earth climatic consequences are not well understood yet. Part of the problem is that detailed research into all these things has only really gone on for the last 60-70 years and what we normally consider typical "precision" and "scope" of 'science' in such fields has only existed over the last 50 years - very short time spans in terms of something so long-term as 'climate'.
Yonder days I was taught about spots being regular, then I hear about some 11-year cycle.
Now I learn about new phenomena by year. New methods of researching the Star...
Like trivia that a photon (light) produced in the core, bounces within the sun for millions of years and if it's lucky, then travels throughout the cosmos, some tiny fraction of them reaching Earth in 8-some minutes.
So hence the sun is totally dim and can't be "xrayed", 'doctors' use "ultrasound" to see the sun's "internal organs" and structure.
Since the sun's interior is mostly plasma by mass, and the sun's nature is to blow up every second by billions with lots of moving heat and "coyotic" convection, the sun's magnetosphere is "a mess", thus producing lots of "scenery" like spots and flares.
Some stars regularly but rarely produce superflares any single one of which would sterilise such a planet as our Earth. And it's uncertain if our sun will do that or not. -
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In the meantime, it's autumn moving up here, north of Moscow. Trees green and temps not fallen too much yet, rains started to lash and sun hiding behind blanketing cloud.
We are to expect a short "Indian summer" which, due to shortness of Indians, is traditionally called some "old ladies' summer" here:) -
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Year turned towards winter at last yesterday, and I overslept phenomenally.
It's normal Autumn now - 3 to 5 centigrade, but I'm not cold, especially with our central heating having successfully started. Some creepy drip out the window every night, can't even definitely tell it's raining, but the homicide squad in the morning sees the evidence, wet. -
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Slow raining during the day now. We definitely need a word for that. Like "yuck-wet-drizzle" or something. You can't see the rain but only the results.
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Snow here today, but on the brink of turning to rain. Still hoping for another bike ride before winter really sets in.
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@sgunhouse said in What is your Weather?
:time change
Like H.G.Wells?
Russians ride bikes in blizzards, really stoic.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@joshl No, rather the end to what Europeans generally refer to as "Summer Time", though we call "Daylight Savings Time" Kind of ironic that we are on "standard time" for ... just over 4 months of the year, we spend more of the year on "summer time" than "standard time".
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A Former User last edited by
Blizzard in Nebraska, 20+tornados in Illinois. Here, just an early start to Winter.
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@s390g2 Hello, doggy!
The dog speaks English?
Wet winter here, frost teased us a bit and hid. -
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@joshl
No snow yet? This year it all started about a month early and then stayed with no relief.
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adi-jaya last edited by
27°C right now in my city
Partly Sunny
Visibility: 8 km
Pressure: 1009 mbar
Humidity: 92%
Dew Point: 26 °CEntering rainy season, causing a lot of termite to emerge
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A Former User last edited by
Twilight for days now. Dirty ~0 quasi-winter with the swimming brown splashy road in the banks of whiteish soggy snow thawing up the mud. Chilly 90+ humid wind strong not with its sheer force but with a corpsy boggish mortuary touch creeping up under your skin into your soul, freezing joy of life out of you. Nice picture?
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Current Conditions
-4°
-2° / -2°
Cloudy
Feels like: -9°
Humidity: 100%
Wind: S 9 mph
Sunrise: 9:07 am
Sunset: 3:59 pm
Barometer: 30.03" Hg
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