Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic expands with the average speed 2.5 meters a day . Assuming no iceberg breakage how long would it take to reach New Zealand?
February 6, 2009
April 18, 2008
The tipping point
Measuring global temperature trend is not easy. First, almost every weather station is subject to daily temperature variation (which adds a lot of noise to the signal), second there is ubiqutous UHI effect. There are perhaps only two stations in the world that aren’t affected by these problems. They are Amundsen-Scott and Vostok located in Antarctica. They both have a similar historic temperature graphs, covering almost half a century:
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/icd/gjma/amundsen-scott.ann.trend.pdf
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/icd/gjma/vostok.ann.trend.pdf
Based on these trends calculate how long it would take for the average temperature to increase a puny one degree Celcius.
March 27, 2008
Nature effect
Dr. Toad stidied extinction of certain frog species somewhere in a fogotten African jungle. She suggested some other causal mechanism rather than global warming. As a result, the only venue she was able to publish her results was Journal of Coloured Amphibia (or some such). Calculate how many links to climate change Dr. Toad has to introduce in order for the article to be featured in Nature magazine.
Widescreen — see more with less
The widescreen format aspect ratio is 16:9, the standard screen is 4:3. After visiting widescreen advocacy website Xander decided to sew off the top and bottom his standard television box to widescreen aspect ratio. Calculate the percentage of additional cinematic
material Xander can watch on augmented TV set which was hidden from his view before.
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