This is the common "climate vs weather" misunderstanding. All the examples you listed are weather-related outages. The climate component is about how frequently those kinds of weather events happen. If, for example, you had a stable climate with a certain number of ice-storms per year and designed your grid around that frequency but them something, say, a large perturbation to the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, changed the climate so that there were more or fewer large ice storms each year, you would expect that to change the number of outages and you would want to adjust your grid accordingly. The point is the grid is designed for one climate and we're moving to a new one and the additional outages caused by that change are being described as "climate related."

> "I don't think anyone in the world anticipated how quickly the changes brought on by climate change would manifest."

Me, an atmospheric scientist: *screaming into the void*

I am a scientist and programmer and for the last 3 years I've used an i5-based SP4 as my main system. MS has done a pretty good job of integrating Windows 10 with the tablet / pen / touchscreen/ keyboard setup. The linux subsystem is great and seems to keep getting better. The machine is very portable and still powerful enough to do almost any day-to-day tasks and even light gaming. My only complaint is that there are number of parts that still haven't been perfected which fail rapidly under regular use, and Microsoft's hardware customer service leaves something to be desired. After only 3 years of use, although I still have no trouble running software, my SP4 hardware has become quite flaky. Based on all that, although I'd love to buy a new Surface product, the customer experience was just so horrible last time I'm really disinclined to do so.

This page is pretty helpful to decipher how much people were actually drinking. There's a little figure at the bottom with normal sized drinks and their units and a handy shorthand calculation: ABV (percent) * Vol (mL) / 1000 = units. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alc...

You get all the convenience of having to conform to the train schedule, with all the fuel consumption of a car (okay, according to TFS, 80% of the fuel consumption of your car plus 1/n*the fuel consumption of the lead vehicle, where n is number of vehicles in the road train).

The article you linked has your answer only a few paragraphs in:

The biggest problem with the current system is the disconnect between crime and punishment. That's the difference between the proposed scheme and jail (which can't be swift) and the British version (which simply isn't be enforced):

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That's not to say that there is no way that this can be abused, or that the American version will be enforced in practice any better than the British one or even whether this kind of "easy punishment" creates a moral hazard which will ultimately result in 90% of the population in a wall-less prison in the next decade. I'm only pointing out that the specific failure of the British system is something the OP has addressed in the summary.

The problem isn't Apple (or AT&T). Steve Jobs didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy anything. The problem is with braindead consumers who will buy anything because they are told. You really can't blame the company for wanting to take advantage of that kind of behaviour. This is not to say that there isn't something wrong with the way Apple works. And telcos are about the worst companies in the universe next to oil companies. But to blame them for making a shitty product that sells is unfair: the problem is with self-destructive consumer behaviour that allows those companies to continue on doing what they're doing.

As someone who uses math quite a lot in academia, I can tell you that I've never noticed the missing operators. I just don't use 64-bit integers. The reason *I* upgraded to 64-bit Matlab is because I kept running up against memory constraints. 64-bit Matlab can allocate much larger arrays. I am sure there are places where it would be convenient to use really big integers but I find it hard to believe that this is really a big headache for anyone; the main improvement with the 64-bit version is a much bigger memory space.

So the trick is that the reaction that removes O3 from the stratosphere (where the Ozone Layer lives) proceeds really quickly if it has a solid or liquid surface. Putting more sulphate aerosol precursors into the atmosphere results in more aerosols. If they make their way into the right place at the right time, they can enhance ozone depletion.

Please hand in your Apple Fanboy Card and leave the meeting.

I disagree, wholeheartedly. The secret ingredient to a successful business is elbow grease. The fact that this person has asked slashdot this question is not a good indicator of success one way or the other. The important thing is whether this person will be able to take a significant number of the suggestions provided and give'em the old college try.

My research uses satellite measurements of trace gases and aerosols in the lower atmosphere. I can tell you that:

1. at the bottom of that second link is the raw satellite data. It is free for you to download. Or anyone, for that matter. I always end my conference presentations with a proud note that any highschool student with enough hard drive space and a strong will could sit down and do the research I am doing. I don't know if NASA is as open with all their satellite products, but at least with OMI and MODIS and MISR and MOPITT they are.
2. the "raw satellite data" as you call it comes in terms of spectral intensities of reflect and radiated light. Without several fairly advanced courses in physics, or a lot of time at a library with books from said courses, you would be hard pressed to do any kind of useful analysis. I have been working with this stuff for quite some time and I still use the L2 products.

"but it's gonna take a whole lotta floorin'."

Um, did you read the post to which you are replying?

It's a non-issue in terms of a Health Care bill. There are other parts of law designed to deal with illegal immigration. The parent never said that illegal entrance is a-okay. However, by your argument, it's a-okay to deny coverage to 30 million legitimate American residents because there exist 10 million illegal ones.

I really hope someone did some pretty heavy analysis on this. The atmosphere is a big and complicated place.