[Chris CW (aka Seedubs)]

BBC2
Global Weirding

Quote

"The Met Office’s computer can do one hundred trillion calculations — a second. It needs to, in order to process the gouts of data gathered from satellites, data which means, we’re told, that a five-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast was 30 years ago. (Were we so long-suffering in 1982?)

All this technology isn’t to feed some quaint British obsession with weather, it’s to keep track of increasingly freakish extremes in meteorology, not just here but around the world: from record rains in Scotland to droughts in Texas and a boom in hurricanes. Scientists are trying to get to grips with it all and Horizon follows them, in one amazing scene, right into the heart of the storm. "

Looks interesting. Watching now.

This post has been edited by Seedubs (aka Chris): 27 March 2012 - 20:10

[Dave Hancox]

Thanks for the heads up missed it will have to check online.

[Bluebreezer54]

I've recorded it,was it any good ?

[Howard Kirby]

[cynical] Its hard to watch these programmes without feeling we are being scaremongered all the time [/cynical]

[Peter H]

A reasonable programme, it covered a lot of science (at the basic level science programmes seem to these days) but it did have a adaptionist approach to the climate changes that the world sees more of, not a sort the changes out approach - which I see as like turning up the heating because the door is open.

[John Mason]

I'll have to look for that on iPlayer, but not while this nice weather lasts!

Interesting point, Howard. How does one present information about weather extremes such as the recent U.S. heatwave? How would that have panned out had it been at the height of summer, and records were broken by similar amounts? Stefan Rahmsdorf has an interesting discussion running that pertains to aspects of this on Realclimate: http://www.realclima.../extremely-hot/

Cheers - John

[Peter H]

John Mason, on 28 March 2012 - 07:09, said:

I'll have to look for that on iPlayer, but not while this nice weather lasts!

Interesting point, Howard. How does one present information about weather extremes such as the recent U.S. heatwave? How would that have panned out had it been at the height of summer, and records were broken by similar amounts? Stefan Rahmsdorf has an interesting discussion running that pertains to aspects of this on Realclimate: http://www.realclima.../extremely-hot/

Cheers - John

My question is: David Appell?

This post has been edited by Peter H: 28 March 2012 - 07:20