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  1. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Please check the report. The increase in urban area Tmin has affected the overall trend in temperatures for the UK. That's what they say. By quite a large chunk, it turns out. The paper doesn't deal with the globe - it deals with the UK.

  2. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So for those two graphs presented (all blue = corrected, red + blue = original) you would say the anomaly from 1960 until now would be the same? Really?

  3. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yep, that is exactly what they do. They measure the min and max - thus the minimum and maximum thermometers included. Then you add them together and divide by two.

  4. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    What is the albedo of a gravel road compared to snow? What are the thermal emissions of a grey/brown building compared to snow? Stevenson screens are supposed to be 100 feet or more away from other structures and land changes for this very reason. We are talking tenths of a degree here.

  5. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not for this report. See chapter 4 for where the data was collected. It was individual stations. A grand total of 32 stations - located in towns - across both the NWT and Nunavut. That is for an area of 3.1 million km^2 - a bit more than Western Europe as a whole (Germany through Ireland, not including Scandinavia).

    As far as satellite data, it shows the predictions are all pretty much wrong, and lends evidence to the sensitivity of CO2 being about half the value as used in modeling.

  6. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's some interesting data, see figure 4-2 straight from the report. Because there is a step in the temperature pre-1963 to post-1963, the powers-that-be determined to heat the past rather than cool the current. So the new, UHI-affected data is determined to be "correct" instead of the older, less-affected data. That's called cooking the books - literally.

  7. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Data is usually collected from Stevenson screens - and those are usually located around towns and population centers.

  8. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Most definitely been all over Canada, including lots of the NWT and Nunavut. And most of the Stevenson screens are located near people. Have those changes been factored in?

  9. Re:Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1, Troll

    That is about Tmax... Now read what it says about Tmin. And then realize that the average for the day is (Tmax + Tmin) / 2. Increase Tmin without a change in Tmax and you get an increasing average temperature. And it was found to be significant...

  10. Urban heat? on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Royal Metrological Society in the UK found that 1 deg of the increase was from urbanization, not CO2. Buildings/asphalt absorbing heat during the day and radiating back out during the evening, thereby increasing Tmin (and thus the average). Same effect here?

  11. Re:Frying all those donuts on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    And the backbacon. Don't forget frying up the backbacon!

  12. Re:Staying on Windows 9 on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is, because it also includes an extra core for your processor, so it runs better. It reports I have a 5 core i7-7700HQ now... Windows 11 for the WIN!

  13. Re:Staying on Windows 9 on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You both are soooo behind the times... I bought Windows 11 off of Taobao, it is SO advanced and it's great to get the pre-release before Microsoft even knows about it!

  14. First sentence? Editors? on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    After the last remaining Blockbuster Video store closed in Australia on March 31st, there is only one remaining left on earth.

    Was it the last remaining Blockbuster Video or not? If there is still one remaining, then the one closed on Australia was the next to last remaining Blockbuster store...

  15. Re:At least they let you download your data on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 0

    What, you think you own your data with the other players? Someone's delusional...

  16. Now THAT was funny! Thanks!

  17. Re:They should have been doing this all along. on US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So making phones more available to inmates would solve the issue. Do they need their own cellphone for whatever purposes they choose, to use whenever they want? Including organizing murders of prosecutors?

  18. Really, there is only one qualification for men on most of these sites: the size of your bank account.

  19. Re:Who cares now? on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    Bohnett and Rezner just shed a tear, as millions of construction working animated GIF guys cried out in terror...

  20. Jif... on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because choosy nerds choose GIF!

    For those overseas or under 30, it's a play on the old Choosy mothers choose Jif peanut butter commercial

  21. Policing Internet Content? on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought the idea was that information wants to be free, and we shouldn't restrict content (unless it's clearly illegal, like child porn). Even if it's content you don't agree with...

  22. Re:Kurt Eichenwald on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    What's amazing is he claimed that "he couldn't find tentacle porn". Either he's the world's worst journalist who can't use Google (which will list all kinds of it, if you Google for Tentacle Porn) or he's flat out lying. Either way, he's killed what little credibility he had as a journalist (incompetent or lying about a story).

  23. Re:Meanwhile in China and India... on New York Becomes America's Third State To Ban Plastic Bags (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, the rest of the world tends to follow developed country regarding packaging and environmental rules.

    Only because specifications sent to the factories mandate those changes for the export product - and thus the tooling exists for use for domestic product. The best this will do is cut the output of a few plastic bag factories in China. Not much else.

  24. Re:iPhones? AA batteries? on Florida Utility To Close Two Natural Gas Plants, Build World's Largest Solar Battery System (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Informative

    For comparison, FPL notes the battery system is equivalent to 100 million iPhone batteries, or 300 million AA batteries.

    First of all, is it true there's only the equivalent of three AA batteries in an iPhone?

    Yes, it is true. A typical alkaline AA battery has up to 2800 mAh capacity. Of course, this is at 1.5V, so the power capacity is around 4.2 Wh. So 3 of them would be around 12.6 Wh. A, iPhone Xs Max has a 3174 mAh battery, at about 4.2V. So around 12.6 Wh. So yes, about the same capacity.