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Workweek Causes Climate Changes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-take-the-week-off dept.

Shipud writes "An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that daily temperature ranges are smaller on weekdays than on weekends. This phenomenon is strongest in the US, but also appears in China and Japan. The researchers attribute this to human activity, although the exact mechanism is unclear. The prime suspect is aerosol / cloud interactions. Here is the more legible version from Scientific American"

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  1. Try publishing that theory by siskbc · · Score: 1, Troll
    ... and that definitely contributes to more pollution being in the air which will definitely have an effect on temperatures.. I don't know what's being "discovered" here..

    Really? Because global warming doesn't act over a period of days, for God's sake. So the answer isn't nearly as simple as your average uneducated slashbot seems to believe. Science rarely is.

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  2. Re:Sept. 11-13, 2001 Research Results by heli0 · · Score: 0, Troll
    • "during the above period, scientists were able to perform research on the effects of jet contrails"

    Why was this moderated 'interesting' and 'insightful'? Do you see any links to this supposed 'research'? Is there any reason to assume that this is not entirely fabricated?

    • "During their research, it was found that a single jet contrail could be tracked by satellite across the U.S"

    Was this research conducted by Art Bell and Jeff Rense? Has it only been published to a geocities or indymedia site? Links??!!?
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  3. go away you idiots! by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just wish these stupid anticapitalist/socialist would just shut up, sit down, and do something constructive. Most of these idiots have NEVER had a job in their lives, just living off the expense of taxpayers with research grants for junk science like this. Grow up, get over it and get a job!
    Be productive, and quit with this chicken little crap.
    Drink coffee, no don't drink coffee, eat oat bran, no don't eat oat bran. Stay away from popcorn, no, popcorn is good for you. Get it? Remember the R12 freon crap a few years ago? Now that it's banned, and no one has it, and R134 dosen't work as well, lo and behold what do we find? Gee, we were wrong, R12 dosen't cause a hole in the ozone . Ummm, it's been happening for centuries, and we've only been monitoring it for a few decades. Whats a few decades in the LIFE of planet Earth? Something like a few miliseconds.......