How your smartphone could one day predict the weather

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..

 

El Yunque and PR in general received significantly less rainfall this June compared to previous three years

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.



Researchers Find Americans’ Misconceptions on Solar Installation Cost

Researchers Find Americans’ Misconceptions on Solar Installation Cost

Solar data available for the northern Caribbean

Solar data available for the northern Caribbean

Daily and hourly data are available for download. The download site also includes images of yesterday’s solar radiation for Puerto Rico (INSOLRICO.JPG) and Hispaniola (INSOLCARB.JPG). Some example data are given below.

 

Climate Change is Simple

THE WORLD WITHOUT THE INTERNET

World without Internet
Via: OnlineEducation.net

Gobernador de Puerto Rico: Veto de la RCS 1053, NO AL TRASPASO DE TERRENOS AGRÍCOLAS.

Gobernador de Puerto Rico: Veto de la RCS 1053, NO AL TRASPASO DE TERRENOS AGRÍCOLAS.

Tim O’Reilly: Towards a global brain

The concept of the global brain has been around since the beginning of the last century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain).  I remember back in the early 1980’s, my mother-in-law, Jane Howard Edmonds, was promoting the concept by sharing a VHS video tape on the subject with her friends and family.   Since then, the concept has become closer to a reality as described by Tim O’Reilly.

Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice

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.]

Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math

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.