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How weather predictions are made. This is an example of a MetService three-day rain forecasting model, mapping out what kind of weather we re in for.
EXPLAINER: If you want a weather forecast you can choose from many different providers – but sometimes their forecasts clash. The reasons why come down to complex international models, stunning supercomputers, and human judgement. On the morning of Tuesday, January 12, the MetService website, the AccuWeather app, and Apple’s weather app (powered by IBM’s Weather Channel) told different stories. .
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How Apple, AccuWeather, and MetService called the weather in Christchurch on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
January 15, 2021
Scientific equivalent of “I did not pay off that porn star.”
If you’re still a climate denier, this is the length you have to go to.
The Global Warming Policy Forum, in response to yesterday’s announcement that 2020 tied for hottest year in the record, produced the graph above.
Global Warming Policy Forum: (I’m not giving them a link, find it yourself)
There has been no significant warming trend for 5 years.
Every year in the middle of January various organisations, The UK Met Office, NASA, NOAA, etc. release their estimates of the annual average global temperature of our planet.
As NASA and NOAA warn of climate emergency, they weather last-minute denial by Trump appointees
The numbers are in. The hottest seven years in recorded history are: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
But at this point, says NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel, rankings are worthless. It’s all about that horrifying trend towards a level of global overheating impossible to control.
“What really matters, and what I think is really significant and really concerning, is that the seven hottest years on record were the past seven years,” Marvel told CNN.
Her work is part of a global consensus among scientists from the United Kingdom’s Met Office, Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, Berkeley Earth and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the planet’s man-made fever shows no sign of breaking and that land, sea and sky may all be getting hotter faster.
â I honestly believe we canât change the coming climate shut down.â # Me too. We did have a worthy tradition of environmental awareness and commitment in New Zealand. Part of our tragedy is that this failed to translate into a practical political reality- for whatever reasons.
John W
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Our care of the environment has entailed cutting and burning most of the indigenous forest , draining over 98 % of the vital wetlands, polluting rivers to and lakes the point of toxicity killing off the life within them, overfishing the seas to the point of needing an immediate stop with fishing some species, killing off endangered sea birds and mammals causing extinction and near extinction while many of our land birds have died out and currently there are dozens of bird communities steadily disappearing.