Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / March 2006

How does an automatic weather station measure air pressure?
Alexmcw

From
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/peru_prog_summary.shtml
In the Andes mountains, climate researcher Dr Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio
State University, was gathering evidence of the region's climatic

   I've got a question a friend of mine have been going back and forth on
for a while and wanted to get some outside input. We run a weather
forecasting website and all of our forecaster either have degrees in
meteorology, or, in my case, are really close to graduating with ...

I know throwing money at something isn't always the best thing to do,
but if you in the climate/weather sciences had something on your wish
list what would it be?
Increase the budget? Or something else?

I have put a link at the bottom of this post that will take you to a
WEBCAM in antarctica in which is of pretty high quality with icebergs
in the distance and everything.  I do have a few questions about these
pictures.

Still Republican cynics say there's no such thing as global warming.

There Is NO Man-Made Global Warming
December 15, 2004
http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/manmade.htm
By Tom DeWeese

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It reads WMO TEMP coded data (TTAA, TTBB, PPBB) from University of

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Thanks for answering my questions about science. I now know, without a
doubt, the science is more about politics than actual science.
Now when I read a story about science, I will know that I can decide
to believe the story or toss it aside as pure politics.

A little while ago I went on holidays to find that my garden had
scorched in the heat in my absence.  The watering system had worked as
programmed, but this was not nearly enough for the unexpected heatwave
.. In short, this has lead me on a bit of a campaign to find a more