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22nd August 2019, 08:27 AM | #41 |
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The mass die-off it triggers in the oceans causes changes in ocean chemistry which in tern makes major changes in the composition of the atmosphere. The full scope of changes of these isn’t all that well documented, but two of them would be that Oxygen levels plummet and CO2 levels skyrocket causing even more warming. Other changes are possible as organisms that live in low oxygen conditions often produce toxic by-products.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/30/14813 https://science.sciencemag.org/conte.../6419/eaat1327 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/229 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6596 On geological time scales atmospheric CO2 is controlled by the rate at which carbonate rock forms in the oceans. Higher acidity slows down and potentially even reveres this process so rocks are being dissolved instead of formed. Again, it’s not fully understood but all the major mass extinctions seem to follow the same pattern. Something causes atmospheric CO2 to increase, the oceans acidify, temperatures go way up, Oxygen levels plummet and almost everything dies. |
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22nd August 2019, 09:28 AM | #42 |
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Ah, the idiocracy, who figure it's Global Warming™, at a rate of c. 0.7°C per decade, manifesting as, like, a really hot summer in the UK and Europe.
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22nd August 2019, 02:34 PM | #43 |
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No, on the contrary, I was correcting something you wrote that other people picked up. Something misleading, because you assigned a unit to where I understood no unit should have been assigned. Apparently you are right and the "heat index" unit is Deg F, like in "feeled temperature", although it is a combination of actual temperature and humidity (the two dimensions in your chart). I assumed that the result would be just an index without unit, but wikipedia tells me that the result is Deg F as well. Which is kind of stupid, and misleading as we see by other people picking it up as if London had experienced 115′F actual temperature (which would have been some horrible event). |
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24th August 2019, 05:10 PM | #45 |
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Since lolmiller’s post stated heat index and not temperature I can’t see what your complaint is.
His post and statement was factually correct. That other posters did not understand what lolmiller stated is not lolmiller’s fault or responsibility. Those of us who know what Heat Index is and how it is used we’re not confused by lolmiller’s post at all. I did have to convert to real units, Celsius, to fully appreciate lolmiller’s post, but not to understand it. |
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If you equate summarising the situation to you as random nonsense, I’m not surprised that you misunderstood lolmiller’s clear and correct use of Heat Index as a measurement.
That you did not understand the term or the correctly used units in lolmiller’s posts is not his fault. Nor is your persistence in insisting that his posts were misleading. |
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24th August 2019, 08:28 PM | #48 |
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You failed to answer my question.
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Pretty hot in North London as well.
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25th August 2019, 11:47 AM | #51 |
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It was 29 degrees at about 3pm according to my vehicle's temperature gauge. That is stupidly hot for this time of year in Scotland.
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25th August 2019, 11:36 PM | #52 |
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Record heat for an August bank holiday weekend in England and Wales....
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