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[pommystuart]

[ellensmn]

Yay! Very cool about the Bear!!

[Randi]

Watch The voyages, the work, the people, the places this week
for enough Halloween posts to bore scare you to death!

[AvastMH]

Okay - I'm hiding behind the sofa - bring on the scary stories!

[AvastMH]

Rival weather project in the Zooniverse - Weather at Sea - viewtopic.php?p=16236#p16236

Ah - not that scary - it's got Ed Hawkins (Ben Nevis weather if you recall that, and many others) and Kevin on the team

[Randi]

It uses Talk, so it isn't a rival

[pommystuart]

Had a look at the project.
They could have taken a leaf out of our data entry method, not impressed with there method.
Your stuck with me for OW

[Randi]

Your stuck with me for OW

Good!

[AvastMH]

Your stuck with me for OW

Good!

And that's a firm Good! from me too!

[pommystuart]

[pommystuart]

An interesting visual description of what could happen if we do not keep Climate Change in check.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climat ... m-palace/?

[Michael]

As for you sticking with OW... Great news! You are more reliable at getting things done then the politicians are.

[Michael]

After finishing the voyage for Chelan, 1929, I thought it would be a good time to get an idea of what we have done with the the Old Weather project:

• 102 Files with Weather data: 607,000 lines of data;
• 51 Files with Ice but no weather data: 170,000 lines of data; and,
• 13 Files with only position data: with 53,000 lines of data.

The total: 830,00 lines of data in 166 files!

I think we should take a moment to pat ourselves on the back.

[AvastMH]

...and a jolly big round of applause!

[Randi]

[Vic]

That's a lot of data!

[AvastMH]

The doctoral students in my department at work have set up an amazing map. Stuart - could you get Australia off the starting blocks perhaps? feel free to have your say.

Have a Climate Conversation for COP26
The Talk Climate Change campaign started few months ago seeking to generate thousands of climate conversations worldwide associated with COP26. So far it has received submissions from over 30 countries. You can explore them on its interactive map. However, the Climate Conversation needs your help to give it a wider span in this final week (as well as during the COP26 conference itself). These conversations are incredibly important for building public support for climate action and pushing policymakers to act.

This 1-minute video explains how this simple system works

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From the project, and the planet, thank you!

[Michael]

Two recent articles to make you depressed...

Andrew Weaver's 1.5 Degree Reality Check

Arctic ground ‘literally collapsing’ amid abrupt thaw

[Randi]

There are some advantages to being old

[Michael]

I know, I try not to think about our children or grandchildren.