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The Confrérie: The Global Thermometer |
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11 Jan 2008 @ 11:55 by swanny : scale 11 Jan 2008 @ 13:50 by swanny : example Okay an example You take say 100 equidistant temps and points around the world and average them and you get say 52 degrees Faranhiet as your average global temp for that day. so you use that 52 as your arbritary global temp on the bottom of the ratio and norm.... established say in January 2008. so the next day you take your 100 equidistant points again. and average them again and you probably get not 52 but a little different say 60 so your temp ratio would be 60/52 indicating a general global warming for that "day". Over time though you'd build up a lot of these daily ratios say for the year... so then you average your daily ratios for the year and it would give the trend or ratio for the year which would indicate a general warming or cooling realive or staying the same to your arbritary point. so that would be 100 x 365 in terms of probablities which is a small sampling perhaps but easier thus than considering many more variables. 11 Jan 2008 @ 14:32 by swanny : local I suppose to avoid confusion and errors local temps could be put in brackets so for instance todays temp here now is about (15)/52 in Farenhiet... and I suppose the global temp for the planet would be for the day would be 52/52 or so. 11 Jan 2008 @ 16:27 by swanny : Global Reference Temperature Found it or the pretender to it The global reference temperature is 15.08 *C or 59.14 *F or 288.077 *K as established in 1940 AD in the UK image = 
alfred 11 Jan 2008 @ 21:48 by bushman : Hmm, The graphic should say trend within the time of being able to document global temps. Like the pic doesnt go back to the little iceage even though it was a recorded event being the latest global neg peak. 1860-2000, leaves out massive amounts of recorded data from even before the little iceage. 11 Jan 2008 @ 22:15 by swanny : Yup I suppose its a statistical thing though the measurements have to be done in a similar way to be valid and the old records wouldn't give enough info or I'm assuming that ie if this data is compiled from say 100 different global points and the old data is only a few points it would be bias or skewed. I mean standard time wasn't even invented till 1870 for another thing. But yes a longer record would be nice. Actually I think the reference temp is a bit too high in my estimation. Thats about 60 degrees faraheit which seems pretty hot for the average global temperature back then. If you look at the extremes of earth temp its about 120 F to - 60 F so the numerical average of that would be about the freezing point of water or 30 F. hmmmm interesting coincidence aye. Anyway. And I'm not sure when the thermometer was invented but record keeping started around 2500 BC ed 13 Jan 2008 @ 20:53 by swanny : Walla Problem Heres what happens without a common reference I attempted to do a temp reconstruction Its somewhat confusing  14 Jan 2008 @ 02:28 by swanny : Standard time and global warming I was debating humanities reckless doings and thought well geez no wonder we have global warming and climate change and thus thought what we need is coordinated and responsible global doings and bamm it hits me "STANDARD TIME ZONES" .... not the answer but thats the problem... they created a global economic engine that turfin the planet... you see before...... time was haphazrd .......things got done when they got done .... call it "indian time" some pressure yea but easy on the eyes.. than bam in 1888 or so Sir Sandford Flemming a Scottish Canadian industrial engineer says non this is wasteful and ineffiecient we must standardize to increase economy production efficiency wealth and coordination we must run the whole world on a standard clock.... and the rest is history... you'll note on the pic what happened after 1900 the engine got rollin .... I suppose its just a guess but a calculated and ironic one. 14 Jan 2008 @ 02:40 by swanny : history of standard time link = [link] 5/12/03 Who Dreamed Up Our Concept of Time? By Derek Alger Mr. Alger is a free-lance writer. Viewing the turbulent contemporary world landscape, it seems improbable, almost impossible, to imagine an international conference being held where consensus was achieved, much less a consensus that remained intact for any appreciable period. And yet, that was the result of the Prime Meridian Conference convened in Washington, D.C. almost 120 years ago to determine a standard for world time. The Prime Meridian Conference, officially called by President Chester Alan Arthur in October of 1884, ushered in world standard time. Imagine, representatives from 25 nations meeting in Washington, D.C. and returning home some three weeks later with an agreement, and an agreement which is still in use today. That conference laid the groundwork, recognizing the need for a time standard in a world of increasing speed in both communication and travel, with its implications for commerce, and eventually the Standard Time Act of 1918 was enacted into law in the United States on March 19th, only eighty-five years ago. Remarkable, standard time in the United States originally came into existence because of the railroads, and much of the country subsequently ran on railroad time, but local time was a different matter. Prior to the Prime Meridian Conference, the world was not divided into twenty-four time zones, with each day beginning at midnight on the Greenwich prime meridian; instead each town had its own local time. The man, more than any other, who was the driving force responsible for making the Prime Meridian Conference a reality was Sir Sanford Fleming, born in Scotland in 1827 in the town of Kirkcaldy and coming to Canada in 1845 at the age of 18. Fleming went on to serve as the titular Chancellor of Queens University in Kingston, Ontario for thirty-five years; was responsible for designing and engraving the first Canadian postage stamp; and, though little remembered today, he was also the one who came up with the idea to create a unified standard for the world to tell time. In his recent book, Time Lord: Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time, Clark Blaise records the fascinating movement toward the adoption of world standard time by tracing Fleming's career, from his start as a land surveyor in Ontario and then on to civil engineering and the building of railroads, and finally as the one who recognized that the world should run according to a standardized 24 hour clock. 14 Jan 2008 @ 02:58 by swanny : Overheating Comprende The engine is overheating we have to s l o w t h i n g s d o w n Other entries in Articles 24 Jul 2008 @ 23:33: Expectant-C...? 24 Jul 2008 @ 23:03: Expectant-C...? 24 Jul 2008 @ 22:57: Expectant-C 20 May 2008 @ 15:25: Sargasso C 20 May 2008 @ 02:28: Monkey C: Darwin in the Machine 19 May 2008 @ 22:57: Life Immortal 18 May 2008 @ 18:58: Opener of Ways 17 May 2008 @ 23:10: Thought! 17 May 2008 @ 22:46: A Sea Monkey of Trouble 16 May 2008 @ 20:48: Athos's Ethos: ORTHODOXY OR DEATH
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