Tag: Climate
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Climate is not just whether it is hot or cold. It is also about the weather patterns, events that happen annually in an area or globally.
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Life on our planet has faced 5 mass extinction events. Mass extinctions are events where a dangerously large proportion of life dies across the globe
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Whenever there is a day that’s a bit cold, I hear someone say “what happened to the climate change?” and “so much for the global warming”. This is because of the confusion between what is climate vs weather and how they relate to each other.
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You might have heard of the term “Milankovitch Cycles”. These are some of the most powerful forces in determining Earth’s climate.
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So what if it had been global cooling instead? I think the response would have been vastly distant. It seems to me that people fear the cold a lot more than heat. Imagine if it had been called ‘global freezing’? Images of the ice ages, snowball earth, blizzards and snow might cross your mind.
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For this to work with my weather prediction system I need three pieces of information: temperature, humidity and pressure. That doesn’t sound too hard… right?
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Now when people say “Maths makes me sad”, no one means it more sincerely than climate scientists. This graph does not make me sad so much as this graph scares me.
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In my last post, I talked about how I was building a climate model. It was pretty much just your average light hearted blog post. This one is not. The results that I was excited to see were not exactly exciting as such. The results of my model show that Sydney’s temperature is rising at…
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This week, I decided that I would build a climate model. This could have done this the easy way in excel spread sheets. But unfortunately, just building a climate model isn’t enough. I wanted to build a model of the changing climate since pre industrial times. For this, I would have to have data stretching…