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roter

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About roter

https://klimaat.ca

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    Comment #48492844

    The confirmation email takes a few minutes.

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    Comment #48134682

    I saw a note from an earlier year's discussion saying the css has been changed over the years. Perhaps it was easier then to discern fact or myth, truth or fiction.

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    Comment #46934495

    > ... potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. The Gulf Stream is not also known as the AMOC. The natu…

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    Comment #46738136

    Somewhat similar for Canada: https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives

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    Comment #46231517

    Browsing is slow. Can browse folders but can't open individual files. Pink unicorns with fiery manes.

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    Comment #45231978

    Hitting the "I'd Buy" button gets me "Your bank account is filing a restraining order". Lovely.

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    Comment #44605559

    Isn't the main reason because you're not eating?

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    Comment #44426196

    The whispey ones are largely transparent to incoming shortwave radiation but largely opaque to outgoing longwave radiation. You just need to put on your ~10 micron wavelength goggl…

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    Comment #44424570

    The pros for heat pumps are numerous. There is the issue of resilience to extreme weather. ASHRAE is funding a project, just getting underway, to create a map, first of the USA but…

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    Comment #44424406

    And I went straight to storing large numerical arrays, i.e. replacement for Zarr, NetCDF, HDF, etc

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    Comment #44005946

    There is also the theory that the British just had more practice at gunnery and sailhandling while blockading the French/Spanish in the various ports.

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    Comment #43844745

    http://archive.today/dalBp

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    Comment #43593735

    Clouds have two main impacts: reflect incoming, shortwave radiation back to space and absorb (and re-radiation up and down) outgoing, longwave radiation from the surface. The inter…

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    Comment #43593698

    Units provided were power not energy. The number provided is just the product of the solar constant and the cross-sectional area of Earth [0], roughly. [0] https://bionumbers.hms.h…

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    Comment #43452849

    I always found this 2/3rds statistic hard to believe but it counts all coastlines as a border zone [0]. As a Canadian, I'm more concerned with the vast percentage of us who live wi…

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    Comment #43398419

    https://archive.is/m3TcW/share

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    Comment #43336130

    Very interesting and promising package. I especially like that there is a PyQt interface which might provide an alternative to another great package: pyqtgraph[0]. [0] https://gith…

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    Comment #43301250

    One of his (Sir Terry) sources for inspiration was Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [0]. Indeed he wrote a foreword for one of them. [0] Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fa…

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    Comment #42655077

    How do you stop so you don't go whizzing past Alpha Centauri at near light speed? :)

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    Comment #42558715

    When running Orbit on the comments in this page: > The Orbit add-on by Mozilla is a new AI-powered tool that summarizes and answers queries about web content, including articles an…

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    Comment #41274025

    s/malice/avarice.

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    Comment #40761055

    There is support for the OP's statement, in the case of Celsius at least [0], emphasis mine: > Because of this dual usage, one must not rely upon the unit name or its symbol to den…

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