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GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance (GOES-WEB) Algorithm
HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE PRINCIPAL SPRINGS IN PUERTO
How your smartphone could one day predict the weather
The article suggests that with humidity and barometric pressure measurements alone, it would be possible to predict the weather using a network of cell phones. I guess this approach would have to filter out data from a cell phone, for example, in an air conditioned building where the air is essentially dehumidified in the cooling process, or a cell phone in in an oil heated building during the winter in the northern U.S., where the air becomes extremely dry. Anyhow, the idea is interesting and might be applicable for many other types of sensors that could estimate, for example, solar energy, air quality, human stress levels, traffic patterns, etc..
Rainfall maps for June 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 are shown below. Rainfall for June this years is well below normal. El Yunque appears to have received only about 1/3 of the rainfall that it received in each of the previous three years. I am not a forest ecologist, but this seems like a very bad situation to me.
This peer-reviewed paper, which has been submitted to a leading scientific journal and made available to Time.com prior to publication, can be downloaded at the following website: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/global-warming-an-exclusive-look-at-james-hansens-scary-new-math/#ixzz1z1Yv5dJP
[Notice that the date on the New York Times article is May 10, 2012 and the date on the journal article is November 10, 2011. Given humanity’s urgent need for scientific information, we need to speed up the scientific journal publication process, without compromising the quality of the publications.]
A new analysis by the NASA climatologist for the first time ties specific weather events to human-induced climate change
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Lone tourists walk along Red Square in heavy smog, caused by peat fires in nearby forests, in central Moscow, Aug. 9, 2010.
SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA by Dra. Gladys M. González Martínez
This article by Dra. González (page 103) is excellent. Although she speaks in general terms about food security, she provides a detailed analysis of the situation in Puerto Rico. For years I have heard that we import around 85% of our food from outside the island, but I had never seen an official statement. Dra. González provides it in this paper along with other critically important data about our agriculture and food security.
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