Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?

jason0000042 writes "The BBC is reporting on Cliwoc, the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans, which pulls data about climate change from 18th and 19th Century sailing ships' logbooks. It's like a window in time that could help us better understand global climate change, if they can decipher the olde timey language of the 1750's. Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age."

Comments

'tis good

[m0rphin3]

Nowe we canne fynde oute about the Dragons and mighty Sea-Serpents alsoe. I, for Onne, can't Waite to fynde oute if they melted down, or what.

Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone read that as "Old School Data Mining, MARTIAN Style?"

I pictured rovers being smashed into a database.

I, fore won,

[A nonymous Coward]

welcomm our new antique spelling overlords. I have muche to learne.

AARRRGH!!!!

[thepuma]

Ye landlubbers will never find me gold, no matter how hard ye search me logs!

I'll keel-haul ye varmits!

-Blackbeard

old timey language

[Savatte]

if they can decipher the olde timey language of the 1750's.

I'll help bridge the language gap in words all slashdotters can understand

Yar! Shiver me timbers matey, there be a seaman on the poop deck = first post, nautical style!

Avast me scurvys = why the hell didn't we bring any women on this 12 week voyage? My nuts feel like cannonballs!

Obligatory Dilbert joke

[Fjornir]

...I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age...

Let's do both!

Ship's Log

[ackthpt]

Januarye 17, 1787

Anchored at Shanghai bye night, traded opium for much filver, failing for Hong Kong on the tide. Temperature 65.

Januarye 21, 1787

Anchored at Hong Kong, but were vifited by cuftomef officialf. Snuck up a river by night to fell more opium to chinefe for silver. Got very nice candelabra for the wife. Temperature 61.

January 24, 1787

Macau not welcoming our bufineff, but fnuck up a river by night and fold laft of opium for more filver. Blimey, what racket, time to head back to Tonkin. Temperature 62.

reading logs

[Charlton Heston]

There must be some trick to reading logs that I haven't figured out yet. For example, I just read my log and it said that the climate is going to be long, brown, smelly, squishy, and somewhat moist. Followed by a localized cyclonic oceanic disturbance, and a short trip down a narrow pipe.

An accurate weather forecast, for once.

[AtariAmarok]

Watch out for thunderstorms and hurricanes in future decades

I think this is a weather forecast we can't go wrong with! Would it be safe to say that there is a 100% chance of hail at some time during these future decades as well?

Weather Control Technologies

[Omega1045]

I have been watching Star Trek Since I was a kid, starting with the Original Series through the latest "Enterprise".

It seems that Star Trek inventions become real inventions 20 to 30 years after the original broadcast date. This is not hard-tested theory, but something I am researching.

By my reconning, the weather control systems mentioned in TNG (circa 1995) will be implimented sometime between 2015 and 2025. So as long as we can keep global warming from getting out of hand until them, we should be cool. I mean cool as in "rad" or "ok", not temperature-wise.