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As Chief Scientist and Vice President, Jon Hoekstra continues WWF's tradition of scientific excellence and leads the charge to find science-based solutions to the most pressing conservation problems. He leads the organization's Conservation Science Program and works with more than 400 WWF scientists to provide innovative research and technical assistance to conservation projects around the world. "Good science needs to be timely, relevant, and credible. Great science does it with a little bit of flair and can really be translated into action," Jon says.
Since the beginning of his career as an endangered species biologist, Jon has been committed to using science to craft practical and effective conservation solutions. "I get excited about conservation science as a problem solver," Jon says. "The fact that WWF prides itself on being a science-based organization puts science in a really special position. I really like being right in the middle of it." As a global science leader, Jon has definitely been in the middle of it. He used science to reveal the biome crisis in the world's grasslands, revamped conservation strategies to adapt to climate change, and revealed how habitat protection and restoration can help people as well as nature.
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The environment has undergone significant changes over the past several decades. Jon describe's the trends we are observing and what the future may look like in terms of land use, climate, biodiversity, and natural resource availability. He will further explore the challenges and opportunities that an evolving environmental landscape poses to your business.
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- MS – Biological sciences, Stanford University
- BS – Biological sciences, Stanford University
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If you go back to what the Jazz coaches and front office said about Rudy last year, every comment was laced with how he likes the game and how he's willing to work. The work is paying off. Utah's strength and conditioning staff of Mark McKown and Isaiah Wright built a solid plan for Gobert, and the work is coming to fruition.
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Rudy deserves the credit on these plays. He came to the NBA with the intention of being very good, and he's not satisfied with a lesser role. In addition, the work of McKown and Wright is key to a successful franchise. It often goes without great recognition, but it's some of the most important work that's done behind the scenes.

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Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation
Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that purports to refute global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
Making sense of the slowdown in global surface warming
Posted on 26 May 2015 by Kevin C
The slowdown in global warming is a subject of intense study. Is it a real physical effect, or a few chance cool years, or something more complex? Could it have been predicted? Can we understand it in retrospect? The following lecture and commentary from the Denial101x course attempt to summarize recent work on the subject. However it is a very fast-moving field, so this summary can only cover a small fraction of the material and will quickly become out-of-date (if it is not already so).
Making Sense of the Slowdown: Commentary
The term 'hiatus' is often applied to describe a slowdown in the rate of global warming since the late 1990s or the early 2000s. However there are two separate questions which are often confused in discussion of the hiatus. The first is whether there has been a change in the rate of warming, while the second concerns whether the rate of warming is in line with model projections.
When looking at the rate of warming, the year-to-year variability makes it hard to draw conclusions from short periods, especially if we are allowed to cherry-pick a start date. Separating a change in the rate of warming from a few chance cool years is hard, however careful analysis of climate models suggest that recent changes in the rate of warming can occur naturally, but are uncommon (Roberts et al 2015).
Spoiled ballots, spoiled views: an election snapshot from Powys, Wales, UK
Posted on 25 May 2015 by John Mason
It's a funny thing. One of the most viral news items concerning the UK General Election on May 7th 2015 came from my constituency of Montgomeryshire. Apparently, someone took the time and trouble to draw a remarkably detailed sketch of a penis in the box that they would have otherwise crossed had they been voting for the incumbent Conservative MP, Glyn Davies. In other headlines, three high-profile party leaders resigned within an hour of one another the following morning but everybody turned over and went back to sleep on that one.
I hasten to add that the artwork had nothing to do with me. I voted for one of the other guys – tactically, which in the context of Glyn's significantly increased majority turned out to be a wasted vote. I should have voted with my heart – for the Greens or Plaid Cymru. Unlike the other parties, at least I can state that I have met the leaders of the latter two in person and have found them to be – well, real, passionate and principled people, as opposed to the used car salesmen stuffed into suits to look "respectable", that tends to be the norm over here.
So, what has this to do with climate change, readers may well be asking? Quite a lot in fact. What troubles me about the outcome of Election '15 is that voters, like turkeys vaguely approving the advent of Christmas, seem to have voted for more Business As Usual. But they have done so in a political atmosphere so clouded with media-served misinformation that it is hard to know where to start with the debunking. So let's put UK politics to one side now and stick to our speciality: dealing with another channel of misinformation, that related to global warming. Take a look at this letter, from the latest issue of the County Times, a weekly newspaper that covers Powys, the larger local authority area of which Montgomeryshire is a part:
2015 SkS Weekly Digest #21
Posted on 24 May 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Why the 97 per cent consensus on climate change still gets challenged by Andy Skuce garnered the highest number of comments of the artilces posted on SkS during the past week. Dana's Congress manufactures doubt and denial in climate change hearing attracted the second highest number of comments.
El Niño Watch
El Niño could bring drought and famine in west Africa, scientists warn by Karl Mathiesen, The Guardian, May 21, 2015
May Climate Briefing: El Niño Heating Up by Elisabeth Gawthrop, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, May 22, 2015
El Niño 2015 considered rare, aims to rewrite heat records by Scott Sutherland, The Weather Network, May 23, 2015
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2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #21B
Posted on 23 May 2015 by John Hartz
- 25 newspapers team up to bring attention to climate change
- Bad news keeps flowing from Antarctica
- Congress manufactures doubt and denial in climate change hearing
- Cutting warming to 1.5°C could endanger food supply
- France's Hollande concerned about slow progress in climate talks
- Limiting global warming to 1.5C is still possible, say scientists
- Seeds of Time - preserving food resources in a hot future climate
- Shell boss warns that unchecked fossil fuel burning will cause global warming
- The surprising links between faith and evolution and climate denial — charted
- We need real consensus, not Bjorn Lomborg's illusion of it
25 newspapers team up to bring attention to climate change
The Guardian's Keep It In The Ground campaign has centered around publishing climate stories aggressive enough to alienate major oil companies.
Now, it's convinced 25 other global newspapers to gang up together on Big Oil.
The Guardian's partners include the world's influential daily papers including Le Monde, El País, China Daily, the Sydney Morning Herald, India Today, and the Seattle Times.
The newspapers will share each other's articles on climate coverage in an effort to pressure diplomats to craft a stricter new global agreement to reduce emissions at the UN's global summit on climate change on December 11. the Guardian's coverage, already the most activist in its approach, will begin appearing in 25 major newspapers around the world as part of a new content sharing agreement, coordinated by the Global Editors Network.
25 newspapers team up to bring attention to climate change by Jason Abbruzzese, Mashable, May 23, 2015
Seeds of Time - preserving food resources in a hot future climate
Posted on 22 May 2015 by John Abraham
So often, we talk about "proving" climate change is happening, or articulating changes we expect in the future from increased extreme weather. We should also talk about adaptation - how can we adapt to a future climate?
A recent film, being shown in theaters in New York City now and Los Angeles next Friday is a great success story about adaptation; decisions we can make now that may influence the fortunes of future generations. The movie, called Seeds of Time, is directed by Oscar-nominee Sandy McLeod. It is narrated by Dr. Cary Fowler who identifies the challenges agriculture will face with climate change and other potential disasters. Cary was former Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Their goal was to put together an international plan to preserve global genetic diversity.
Why is it important to preserve our future food resources? Well in today's climate, food production is susceptible to extreme weather swings, particularly droughts and floods. Here in the United States, we are suffering through the third major drought since 2011. The costs to this country are billions of dollars. The current California drought is the worst in over 1,200 years.
Congress manufactures doubt and denial in climate change hearing
Posted on 21 May 2015 by dana1981
US Congress periodically holds hearings on issues related to climate change. Because the subject has become a partisan one in America, they generally follow a predictable pattern – Democrats invite science and policy expert witnesses who agree with the expert consensus on human-caused global warming and the need to address it, and Republicans invite witnesses who disagree.
John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville is one of the fewer than 3% of climate scientists who publishes research suggesting that humans aren't the primary cause of the current global warming. He's thus become one of Republicans' favorite expert witnesses.
Last week, the Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing to discuss draft guidance by the the President's Council on Environmental Quality to include carbon pollution and the effects of climate change in the consideration of environmental impacts of federal projects, as part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process. Needless to say, the Republicans on the committee don't like the idea, as is clear from the hearing highlights and lowlights in the video below.
Christy Manufactures Doubt on Model Accuracy
Given that the hearing was ostensibly about environmental policy, most of the witnesses were policy experts. John Christy was the lone climate scientist invited to testify. His testimony focused on manufacturing doubt about the accuracy of climate models, climate change impacts, and about individual American projects' contributions to global warming. On the accuracy of climate models, Christy played rather fast and loose with the facts, saying in his written testimony (emphasis added),
Hotspot Found Again: Warming of the Tropical Troposphere Confirms Climate Model Prediction
Posted on 20 May 2015 by Rob Painting
- As the Earth warms, the lower atmosphere (troposphere) in the tropics is expected to warm at a faster rate than at the surface. The development of this so-called 'hotspot' is an expectation based on principles of atmospheric physics and is therefore also predicted by climate model simulations.
- This hotspot in the tropical troposphere is not specific to the increased greenhouse effect resulting from industrial carbon dioxide emissions. It would, for example, also be expected in a hypothetical scenario where warming was due to increased solar output.
- Despite obvious warming of the atmosphere, it had been difficult to confirm the existence of this hotspot primarily due to analytical deficiencies in accounting for temperature data quality and sampling, i.e. it's suspected to have been a 'measurement problem'.
- Sherwood & Nishant (2015) is the latest scientific paper published in recent years to resolve this issue. By employing an improved analysis method to remove inherent biases in the data, these researchers have once again confirmed the existence of the tropical tropospheric hotspot.
Why should there be a 'hotspot' in the atmosphere above the tropics?
Because most of Earth's incoming energy from the sun is received in the tropics, strong evaporation there removes a lot of heat from the ocean surface. This heat is hidden (latent) as it is used to convert water from a liquid to a gaseous form. Readers are probably familiar with this process as it is the same one in which we are cooled when sweat evaporates off our bodies during strenuous exercise. Our skin cools as heat is used up in the act of evaporating away the sweat.
Strong evaporative uplift occurs near the equator due to the intense solar heating of the ocean there, and this forces the evaporated water (water vapour) to ascend up through the atmosphere. Because the temperature in the atmosphere decreases with increasing height (known as the lapse rate), this has the effect of cooling water vapor until it reaches a point where it condenses back into a liquid form (forming clouds and rainfall) - liberating the hidden (latent) heat into the upper atmosphere. With the great bulk of atmospheric moisture being concentrated in the tropics, this ongoing process should lead to greater warming in the tropical troposphere than at the surface.
2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #21A
Posted on 19 May 2015 by John Hartz
- California joins other states, provinces in climate change agreement
- Climate change threatens electric power supply in California, report warns
- FactCheck: Are 95% of models linking human CO₂ emissions and global warming in error?
- Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
- Heat is piling up in the depths of the Indian Ocean
- How conservatives lost the plot over the rejection of Bjorn Lomborg
- May's torrential rainstorms super-charged by strengthening climate patterns
- New evidence that climate change is altering Hurricane season as we know it
- Past 12 months tied for warmest on record
- Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change
- Shellfish species shrinking as rising carbon emissions hit marine life
- Shell Oil's cold calculations for a warming world
- What is equitable for planet Earth? India and climate change: our record, role and responsibility
- We are ignoring the new machine age at our peril
California joins other states, provinces in climate change agreement
Gov. Jerry Brown signed an agreement Tuesday with leaders from 11 other states and countries pledging cooperation to battle climate change.
"This global challenge requires bold action on the part of governments everywhere," Brown said in a statement. "It's time to be decisive. It's time to act."
The agreement includes the states of Oregon, Washington and Vermont, as well as the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario in Canada, the states of Baja California and Jalisco in Mexico, and the British country of Wales. Also involved are states and provinces in Brazil, Germany, and Spain.
California joins other states, provinces in climate change agreement by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2015
My Research with Steve
Posted on 19 May 2015 by Guest Author
This is a re-post from ClimateSight
Almost four years ago I took a job as a summer student of Dr. Steve Easterbrook, in the software engineering lab of the University of Toronto. This was my first time taking part in research, but also my first time living away from home and my first time using a Unix terminal (both of which are challenging, but immensely rewarding, life skills).
While working with Steve I discovered that climate model output is really pretty (an opinion which hasn't changed in the four years since) and that climate models are really hard to install (that hasn't changed either).
At Steve's suggestion I got a hold of the code for various climate models and started to pick it apart. By the end of the summer I had created a series of standardised diagrams showing the software architecture of each model.
These diagrams proved to be really useful communication tools: we presented our work at AGU the following December, and at NCAR about a year after that, to very positive feedback. Many climate modellers we met at these conferences were pleased to have a software diagram of the model they used (which is very useful to show during presentations), but they were generally more interested in the diagrams for other models, to see how other research groups used different software structures to solve the same problems. "I had no idea they did it like that," was a remark I heard more than a few times.
Between my undergrad and PhD, I went back to Toronto for a month where I analysed the model code more rigorously. We made a new set of diagrams which was more accurate: the code was sorted into components based on dependency structure, and the area of each component in a given diagram was exactly proportional to the line count of its source code.
Here is the diagram we made for the GFDL-ESM2M model, which is developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton:
Why the 97 per cent consensus on climate change still gets challenged
Posted on 18 May 2015 by Andy Skuce
Here are some excerpts from an article I wrote for the magazine Corporate Knights, published on May 14, 2015. Some references and links have been added at the end.
In 2004, science historian Naomi Oreskes published a short paper in the journal Science concluding there was an overwhelming consensus in the scientific literature that global warming was caused by humans.
After the paper's release, there was some unexpectedly hostile reaction. This prompted Oreskes and her colleague Erik Conway to go even deeper with their research, leading to the publication of the book Merchants of Doubt. It documents how a small group of scientists with links to industry were able to sow doubt about the scientific consensus and delay effective policy on DDT, tobacco, acid rain and, now, global warming.
Fast forward to two years ago: a team of volunteer researchers (myself included) associated with the website Skeptical Science decide to update and extend Oreskes' research. Led by University of Queensland researcher John Cook, we analyzed the abstracts of about 12,000 scientific papers extracted from a large database of articles, using the search terms "global warming" and "global climate change." The articles had been published over a 21-year period, from 1991 to 2011.
As an independent check on our results, we also sent emails to the more than 8,500 scientist authors of these articles. (These were the scientists whose e-mail addresses we were able to track down). We asked them to rate their own papers for endorsement or rejection of man-made global warming.
Both approaches yielded a very similar result: 97 per cent of the scientific literature that expresses an opinion on climate change endorses the expert consensus view that it is man-made. The results were published in May 2013 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
We were astonished by the positive reception. Mention of the paper was tweeted by U.S. President Barack Obama, Al Gore and Elon Musk, among others. Obama later referenced it in a speech at the University of Queensland, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has referred to the 97 per cent consensus in recent speeches. John Oliver based an episode of his HBO comedy show Last Week Tonight around it, a clip viewed online more than five million times.
2015 SkS Weekly Digest #20
Posted on 17 May 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Lukewarmers – the third stage of climate denial, gambling on snake eyes by Dana generated the highest number of comments among the articles posted on SkS this past week. John Abraham's New study finds a hot spot in the atmosphere garnered the second highest number of comments.
El Niño Watch
The rise and rise of the 2015 El Niño by Agus Santoso, Andréa S. Taschetto, Matthew England, and Shayne McGregor, The Conversation, May 12, 2015
Toon of the Week
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20B
Posted on 16 May 2015 by John Hartz
- Bjorn Lomborg's consensus approach is blind to inequality
- Clean energy access, a major sustainable development goal
- Geoengineering is fast and cheap, but not the key to stopping climate change
- How rivers bury carbon at sea
- India, China commit to work together on climate change
- New study finds a hot spot in the atmosphere
- One magical politician won't stop climate change. It's up to all of us
- The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit
- The Carbon Brief interview: Prof Dame Julia Slingo OBE
- What is the 'warm blob' in the Pacific and what can it tell us about our future climate?
Bjorn Lomborg's consensus approach is blind to inequality
Bjorn Lomborg is, undoubtedly, seriously concerned with poverty and inequality. Both in the work of the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) and in his popular writings, this is a common theme. He has championed some very progressive ideas, including eradicating barriers to international migration. Unfortunately, he has also used rather distorted arguments and evidence about inequality to attack some of his favourite bugbears, such as subsidies for renewable energy.
The problem is that the central methodology of Lomborg and the CCC is at best blind to inequality and, in its application, could actually increase it. Moreover, there are good arguments to suggest that if we take a broader view of inequality to include intergenerational equality, the CCC methodology is not even equality-blind; it is equality-averse.
Bjorn Lomborg's consensus approach is blind to inequality by Graham K Brown, The Conversation AU, May 14, 205
New study finds a hot spot in the atmosphere
Posted on 15 May 2015 by John Abraham
A new study, just published in Environmental Research Letters by Steven Sherwood and Nidhi Nashant, has answered a number of questions about the rate at which the Earth is warming. Once again, the mainstream science regarding warming of the atmosphere is shown to be correct. This new study also helps to answer a debate amongst a number of scientists about temperature variations throughout different parts of the atmosphere.
When someone says "The Earth is warming", the first questions to ask are (1) what parts of the Earth? and (2) over what time period? The Earth's climate system is large; it includes oceans, the atmosphere, land surface, ice areas, etc.
When scientists use the phrase "global warming" they are often talking about increases to the amount of energy stored in oceans or increases to the temperature of the atmosphere closest to the ground. By either of these measures, climate change has led to a progressive increase in temperatures over the past four decades. But what about other parts of the climate system? What is happening to them?
One important area to consider is the troposphere. It is the bottom portion of the atmosphere where most weather occurs. Tropospheric temperatures can be taken by satellites, by weather balloons, or other instruments. In the past, both satellites and weather balloons reported no warming or even a cooling.
However, that original work was shown to be faulty and now even the most strident sceptics admit that the troposphere is warming. But obtaining an accurate estimate of the rate of warming is difficult. Changes to instruments, errors in measurements, short term fluctuations all can conspire to hide the "real" temperature.
This is where the new study comes in. The authors develop a new method to account for natural variability, long-term trends, and instruments in the temperature measurement. They make three conclusions.
2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20A
Posted on 14 May 2015 by John Hartz
- A climate-modeling strategy that won't hurt the climate
- Antarctic Larsen-C ice shelf at risk of collapse, study warns
- Bureau of Meteorology declares El Nino event in Australia
- Ice loss in west Antarctica is speeding up
- Lukewarmers – the third stage of climate denial, gambling on snake eyes
- Sea level rise is on the up and up
- The arguments that convinced a libertarian to support aggressive action on climate
- The key climate and clean energy problem of 2015: Doing a lot isn't the same as doing enough
- The rise and rise of the 2015 El Niño
- Troubling new research says global warming will cut wheat yields
A climate-modeling strategy that won't hurt the climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science — creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the future of the planet in a set of equations and how the forces ofclimate change will affect it. It is a task that would require running an immense set of calculations for several weeks and then recalculating them hundreds of times with different variables.
Such machines will need to be more than 100 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers, and ironically, such an effort to better understand the threat of climate change could actually contribute to global warming. If such a computer were built using today's technologies, a so-called exascale computer would consume electricity equivalent to 200,000 homes and might cost $20 million or more annually to operate.
For that reason, scientists planning the construction of these ultrafast machines have been stalled while they wait for yet-to-emerge low-power computing techniques capable of significantly reducing the power requirements for an exascale computer.
A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate by John Markoff, New York Times, May 11, 2015
The Debunking Handbook in Icelandic
Posted on 14 May 2015 by Guest Author
This is a guest post by Heiðar Guðnason.
Whenever a hot topic or current events are discussed, especially in the comment section of social media newspapers there seems to be a tendency to make blatant and uncritical remarks. Some people even go so far as claiming that they have their own private opinions, not realizing they also act on them. This kind of mindset and the statements that follow are all too common in today´s social media. The "Hrakningahandbók" (Debunkers Handbook) serves as a guide not only to help debunk such statements but also to make one aware of his or her innate prejudices.
It helps applying a critical mindset whenever reviewing or making statements – not to accept them without proper arguments. However, this process or critical mindset is not always easy. Take for example when there is no scientific consensus or certain views go against one's worldview. It is when confronted with these kinds of threats that critical thinking is at its most importance, not jumping on the cherry picking bandwagon just because the arguments go against what you already believe.
The "true" debunkers' agenda is not to undermine or dispute opinions whenever they see fit, but to keep an open mind – including innate beliefs – weighing in the evidence and making an informed decision. If you cannot make a judgement on proper grounds, postpone it – that's what being a skeptic is all about. Follow the arguments wherever they may lead, and realizing that scientific criticism is not a negative thing but a truth seeking protocol that ensures that better ideas come out on top. This critical mindset not only applies on other people´s ideas but also your own; sometimes you have to debunk yourself and this handbook can provide the tools.
There may come a time when opinions, statements or arguments need to be debunked, whether they be your own or someone else's. Some opinions are of such nature that they are simply dangerous, e.g. those regarding vaccinations. In such cases, when people's health literally depend on people making an informed decision the "Hrakningahandbók" may indeed save lives. When confronted with such cases, in order to succeed you need all the tools at your disposal, which makes the handbook valuable.
Lukewarmers – the third stage of climate denial, gambling on snake eyes
Posted on 13 May 2015 by dana1981
It's the hottest trend in climate denial. Long gone are the days when people can publicly deny that the planet is warming or that humans are responsible without facing widespread mockery. Those who oppose taking serious action to curb global warming have mostly shifted to Stage 3 in the 5 stages of climate denial.
- Stage 1: Deny the problem exists
- Stage 2: Deny we're the cause
- Stage 3: Deny it's a problem
- Stage 4: Deny we can solve it
- Stage 5: It's too late
Each of the 5 stages shares one main characteristic – all can be used to argue against efforts and policies to slow global warming. If the planet isn't warming, or if we're not causing it, or if it's not a problem, or if we can't solve it, or if it's too late, in each case there's no reason to implement climate policies.
People who favor the status quo will often bounce back and forth between the various stages of climate denial. However, as Stages 1 and 2 have become increasingly untenable, Stage 3 has become more popular.
As a result, so-called "Lukewarmers" have emerged. This group believes that the climate is relatively insensitive to the increasing greenhouse effect, and hence that climate change will proceed slowly enough as to not be a serious concern in the near future. This group has also become known as "Luckwarmers," because they essentially want to gamble our future on the small chance that the best possible case scenario will come to fruition.
What do volcanic eruptions mean for the climate?
Posted on 12 May 2015 by Guest Author
This is a re-post by Robert McSweeney & Roz Pidcock from Carbon Brief
Having lain dormant for over 40 years, the Calbuco volcano last night erupted twice within the space of a few hours. The blast sent a huge cloud of ash over southern Chile.
Carbon Brief has asked a number of experts what volcano eruptions mean for the climate, and whether or not we can expect this latest event to have global consequences.
Cooling effect
Volcanic eruptions can affect climate in two main ways.
First, they release the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, contributing to warming of the atmosphere. But the effect is very small. Emissions from volcanoes since 1750 are thought to be at least 100 times smaller than those from fossil fuel burning.
Second, sulphur dioxide contained in the ash cloud can produce a cooling effect, explains Prof Jim McQuaid, professor of atmospheric composition at the University of Leeds:
"Sulphur dioxide is quickly converted into sulphate aerosol which then alongside the fine volcanic ash forms a partial barrier to incoming solar radiation"
You can see this in the NASA video below that maps movements of particles in the Earth's atmosphere. At around 2 minutes in you can see the impact of the volcanic eruption in Madagascar, just off the eastern coast of Africa.
Ice loss in west Antarctica is speeding up
Posted on 11 May 2015 by John Abraham
As I've previously noted, one of the most challenging problems in climate science deals with how to measure the Earth's system. Whether ocean temperatures, atmospheric temperatures, sea level, ice extent or other characteristics, measurements have to be made with sufficient accuracy and geographical coverage so that we can calculate long-term trends. In some parts of the planet, the measurements are particularly daunting because of the ruggedness of the terrain and the hostility of the environment.
This brings us to a new study just published on Antarctic ice loss by Christopher Harig and Frederik Simons of Princeton. They work in the Princeton Polar Ice program. This study used satellite measurements to determine the rate of mass loss from this large ice sheet.
The ice sheet has two parts, a stable and large eastern part and a smaller and less stable western portion. The impact of climate change on these portions is different. The western part is losing mass at an increasing rate over the past years. In the east, however, the information is less clear. Increased precipitation (snowfall) is adding to the ice there, even while portions of the ice are warming.
The satellite method that these authors used actually measures the gravitational pull of the ice on two orbiting satellites. The huge ice sheet has such a large mass that it attracts objects toward it. As the ice melts and flows into the oceans, the attraction decreases – it is this change that is measured. The satellites are part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project.
2015 SkS Weekly Digest #19
Posted on 10 May 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
The good folk at edX (who host our online course Making Sense of Climate Science Denial) generously organised a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) for me this week. The AMA was scheduled to start at 7 am here in Brisbane. When I woke up at 6 am and loaded the AMA webpage on Reddit, 2000 comments had already been posted! So I gulped down a coffee and in the short time available, belted out as many answers as I could as quickly as possible (while linking to relevant videos from our MOOC). Here are a selection of my answers, grouped into categories:
Ask Me Anything about Climate Science Denial by John Cook
El Niño Watch
The world is headed into an El Nino event – potentially a big one – which will lift global temperatures and likely exacerbate bushfires and drought in eastern Australia, climate specialists say.
Fairfax Media understands that Australia's Bureau of Meteorology will announce next Tuesday that the El Niño event is all but certain.
World headed for an El Nino and it could be a big one, scientists say by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, May 8, 2015
Toon of the Week
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
Monthly global carbon dioxide tops 400ppm for first time
Posted on 9 May 2015 by Guest Author
This is a re-post from Roz Pidcock at Carbon Brief
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today announced that the monthly global average concentration of carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) in March 2015 for the first time since measurements began.
The average carbon dioxide concentration across the globe was 400.83 ppm, reported NOAA.
If this news sounds familiar, it might be because this isn't the first time you've heard scientists mention the 400 ppm mark in recent years.
In the spring of 2012, NOAA reported all of its Arctic stations were measuring local concentrations of more than 400 ppm.
In 2013, the daily carbon dioxide concentration surpassed 400 ppm mark at the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists have been monitoring levels since the 1950s.
But March 2015 is the first time the average carbon dioxide concentration right across the globe has been more than 400 ppm for an entire month.


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Streaming movie hits – 2013 edition
What 2013 box office movies can you legally stream in 2014?
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The battle over cable acquisition is about the next big internet providers
Was the company right to turn down $3B from Facebook?
Major changes are underway in the mobile space
Steve Ballmer retires. What does his legacy look like?
How much do investors price users at?
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Looking at what comes after mobile. This week, we look at TVs.
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The new adventure/puzzle game by Amanita Design (of Machinarium and Samarost fame) is released today!
It'll be available from [link=http://www.gog.com/gamecard/botanicula">GOG.com and
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The new adventure/puzzle game by Amanita Design (of Machinarium and Samarost fame) is released today!
It'll be available from [link=http://www.gog.com/gamecard/botanicula">GOG.com and
|Nice. Machinarium was lovely. I wonder if they'll do an ipad version of this.
|Oh, they already have. Awesome.
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|They're earning quite a lot of wrath at the moment, though - day one appearance in the Humble Bundle - http://www.humblebundle.com/ - lots of people are pretty pissed off about pre-ordering for what is now a premium.
Yep. I doubt I'll bother pre-ordering another indie game now until the bundles either go away or go back to what the first couple did and bundle older stuff.
Quite a few others have done something similar recently but not quite as retarded as that.
Potioninmypants wrote:There's a Machinarium thread.
|The Bundle bubble is about to burst, I feel, burn-out is definitely being felt. Too many repeats, and those that do have mostly original content like the Gamersgate one sell barely any copies. The Humble Bundle is very much a 'we'll only include high-profile games' thing and things like this same-day release is killing off goodwill to the developers, where you're basically being punished financially for supporting them ahead of time.
meme wrote:This is exactly what GOG were talking about a few days ago. People are too accustomed to paying so little for games now, there's virtually no reason to buy anything on the PC until it hits a sale. When they do things like this, it's even worse. They're just punishing the fans who were devoted enough to pre-order and pay full price.
It's going to have a nasty effect on the industry in the long run.
Edited by WinterSnowblind at 18:41:43 19-04-2012
|Staff at GOG had no idea about this either, which to me is cementing the idea that the Humble Store is properly launching soon, and they want to take an early slice of GOG's pie, so to speak.
|I think he might be a bit pissed off by the look of that post.
|I'm kinda tempted to buy it for a penny, solely because the move has pissed me off a tiny bit.
|And it costs them money.
|Which you know
GOG have made a quasi-announcement about it - "Hey everyone; we just found out about the Humble Amanita Bundle. We're not sure exactly what yet, but we're going to come up with something for everyone who preordered Botanicula on GOG.com. Stay tuned and we'll try to come up with something tomorrow."
It's sad that they're having to rush around to please their fans because Amanita pulled a dick move.
After half an hour of trying to get that red berry in the hole under the key, I can truly say Amanita Design can go fuck themselves, and I'm glad I only paid $1 in the humble bundle.
Oh dear, the Humble Bundle thing is a little unfortunate. I think we should give Amanita the benefit of the doubt until we know what happened there though.
"GOGcom" is currently the top contributor to the bundle at $300...
|Don't get the fuss about the humble bundle unless people would actually have given less on there than Botanicula costs elsewhere (bit of a dick move in itself) and don't think Botanicula is worth their 10 Dollars.
UncleLou wrote:From an individual consumer viewpoint it's not so bad, but it's mostly a dick move towards GOG (who had absolutely no idea this was happening and who, in all honesty, I'd rather support financially than Humble Bundle or Amanita).
|Amanita don't seem to think it's worth $10
Plus, there's the whole devaluation thing that Humble Bundles and whatnot have going on, people don't think it's worth $10 because constantly shoving games into bundles and massively discounted sales have devalued them to the point where some people refuse to buy games on GOG because their price points are over $5 per game.
App store mentality at work, really - "this $1.99 game doesn't provide as much content and updates as this totally different 99c game, therefore it is not worth $1.99".
UncleLou wrote:It wouldn't be so bad but if you buy it for $10 in the Humble Bundle you get three other games plus Kooky (which is great) plus the full soundtracks (versus GOG's three Botanicula tracks) plus Steam keys for all of them...
@neilka But people can still buy the bundle for 1 Cent, so they'll have paid $10 for those other games and two copies of Botanicula.
@meme Fair point about GoG.
It's made slightly worse by the fact that Humble are imminently launching their own DRM-free Indie store (an announcement they made shortly after GOG announced -they- were going to start stocking Indie games). I'm still mostly convinced this move is partially, if not mostly, done to piss on GOG's chips. People start thinking "Why did I buy it from GOG when I could have had it for a dollar?" etc.
Botanica's been pulled from the banned display on GOG's front page (though it's still for sale on the store), which is interesting.
UncleLou wrote:The Bundle option is a single key for three games, non-giftable. I've gone for the Bundle (because I wanted the soundtrack) and now ended up with extra copies of Samarost and Machinarium that I can't pass on to others :-/
meme wrote:And the Bundle has effectively been given free advertising for a new release for a better product. Given the average price, there are plenty of people who have paid less than $10.
I think GOG just need something in the contracts to stop this happening but that won't make it as easy for them as it should have.
|Can you give a hint on the screen SuperBas posted above? Like him, I'm close to giving up...
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PureLife Refreshes Brand Image to Emphasize Focus on Health, Environment
Dental dealer PureLife has updated its logo and tagline to better communicate its ongoing commitment to human and environmental health. The new branding represents the company's focus on patients, planet, and profit, and its work to empower dental practitioners to "make a difference" by providing better choices.
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September 25, 2012: Since 2009, dental dealer PureLife has worked to empower dental practitioners to make a positive difference in the health of their patients, their staff, and the planet, without sacrificing profitability. To better communicate this focus, PureLife recently launched a revised logo and tagline. The new logo represents the three pillars of "patients, planet, and profit" in an energetic, uplifting way. The new tagline, Make a Difference, not only communicates PureLife´s position in relation to those three pillars, but charges those in the industry to also "make a difference" by reconsidering their habits and the products they buy, and making better choices.
As the first dental dealer focused on human and environmental health, PureLife empowers dental health care practitioners to make a difference by:
- Providing an extensive and growing Green Collection: seeking out products that have reduced eco-impacts, and then offering them at prices competitive with their traditional counterparts, showing that there doesn´t have to be a trade-off between profitability and improving environmental health.
- Identifying "healthier" products: finding non-toxic alternatives that are just as effective as their toxic counterparts, such as the recently introduced 50-Second Solution(BioSURF), a non-toxic surface disinfectant that kills TB in 50 seconds without phenols or aldehydes. Products like these disprove the falsehood that toxicity equals effectiveness and eliminate the trade-off between infection control and staff health.
- Investing in research and education: creating materials like the animated short The Story of Mercury and investing in university research (via a partnership with Tufts University) furthers the industry´s knowledge related to topics such as infection control, product effectiveness, and everyday environmental impacts.
- Achieving carbon neutrality through carbon offsets with Carbonfund.org: donations fund reforestation projects, balancing the eco-impact of PureLife´s business activities, such as shipping, commuting, and office operations. This means that every PureLife product comes with a reduced eco-impact, automatically.
- Providing cost-effective waste compliance options: properly disposing of all waste — from sharps to mercury amalgam — is essential for protecting human and environmental health, so PureLife makes it easy with UPS/FedEx pick-up services that can save an office up to 50% over traditional services, with no contracts.
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An Introduction to DNS and DNS Tools
This powerful command gathers and returns DNS information in a format the name server can use directly. For this reason, dig is particularly useful in scripts. You will find it easy to query specific name servers with dig, making it a useful tool for narrowing down the source of DNS problems.
Suppose you have just transferred your domain name hosting from old-host.com to new-host.com. A customer sends you an e-mail saying he cannot reach your web site when he is logged into his ISP. You suspect the zone information simply has not had time to propagate. So, you find out what the NS records are for the ISP in question:
dig ns isp-in-question.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: isp-in-question.com. 10H IN NS ns1.hugeupstream.com. isp-in-question.com. 10H IN NS isp-in-question.com. isp-in-question.com. 10H IN NS ns.isp-in-question.com. isp-in-question.com. 10H IN NS ns.goodnameserver.com.
Then you check your company's web site against the ISP's name servers:
dig www.yourcompany.com @ns.isp-in-question.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.yourcompany.com. 59m53s IN A 192.168.5.10Wait a minute, that is your old IP address. It appears the DNS information has not fully propagated yet.
Next, you decide to see if old-host.com has removed the old zone information from their name servers. The "any" option will retrieve all the DNS information:
dig any www.yourcompany.com @ns.old-host.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.yourcompany.com. 1H IN A 192.168.200.250 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: yourcompany.com. 1H IN NS webns.new-isp.com. yourcompany.com. 1H IN NS srvns.new-isp.com.
In this case the A record shows your new IP address for your web server, and it shows the new authoritative name servers for your domain name. This is the information you hoped to find.
These are the most useful dig query types: dig any (gathers all DNS information), dig ns (gathers name server information), dig mx (gathers mail exchanger information) and dig a (gathers network address information).
The dig command can also do reverse lookups with output formatted for the zone file:
dig -x 192.168.200.250 ;; ANSWER SECTION: 250.200.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 4h11s IN PTR www.yourcompany.com.
You can use this tool as a single line command, or you can use it interactively, which distinguishes it from the other DNS commands. Once you have started nslookup, type set all to list the default options. As with dig you can choose the server (name server) you want to query, and you can decide the type of DNS information on which to focus.
Listing 2. Output with nslookup
Just as you can issue commands to nslookup interactively, you can also change the initial defaults by starting a .nslookuprc file. The format of the .nslookup is one command per line:
set type=NS set domain=srvns.new-host.com set timeout=10
The ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet) had a few hundred hosts throughout the 1970s. A single flat file called HOSTS.TXT contained all of the information for every host. System administrators periodically downloaded the file and placed the information into their /etc/hosts file; take a look at your own /etc/hosts to see roughly what that file looked like. However, this system was not scalable. The advent of DNS made the exponential growth of the Internet possible.
DNS server performance
For those of you, who don't just wanna make sure their dns system works properly but who are also interested in how fast their dns provider is, you can check your speed with this dns lookup tool.
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New community resource
A joint venture between the North Country Workforce Investment Board and the Plattsburgh Public Library has given birth to the Plattsburgh Employment and Public Computer Center. The new center located at 19 Oak St. will be open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Various computer workshops and training sessions will be held as well as trained support staff will be available to assist those in need. With the growth of technology this new center serves as a tremendous resource for our community. Go check it out.
No 23rd debate in our area
We were disappointed to hear Congressman Owens declined our invitation to a live debate with Republican challenger Matt Doheny in our portion of the district. We understand there was a televised debate last week aired in the Watertown and Syracuse markets. This is a very large congressional district and scheduling is difficult, but with most of the area's media outlets working together recently to share the stage and coverage of these events, one would have thought a debate in the Clinton/Essex County region could have been worked out by the competing camps. With so much attention to the upcoming elections and so many negative campaign ads airing these days, one would think the candidates would welcome an opportunity to be seen in person side by side so voters can make their own comparison and reach their own decision, without depending heavily on being swayed by the political spin doctors. Plus, with our nation in so much turmoil and voter anguish at such a high level, I would like to think the candidates would welcome the opportunity be seen together ... but, then again, is it really about sending the best candidate to Washington or is it just a matter of selecting the lesser of two evils? In my opinion, until we have term limits, outlaw political contributions to candidates not made from voters within the districts they serve and insure these elected officials are subject to the very same laws we must live under, will anything really change?
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How to close Marcos cases
Sen. Bongbong Marcos' declaration of his willingness to bring closure to the issues of his father's regime (Inquirer, 10/31/12) is long overdue but nonetheless a welcome development.
However, as one of those who filed a lawsuit and testified in the court action against the estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos, I demand that such closure include a legal settlement that will indemnify all victims of martial law, along with an apology from the Marcos family. Also, the past must be told as it was, however unpleasant, and not be revised to suit anybody's political agenda. Like many political observers I suspect Senator Marcos' desire for closure is driven by his personal ambition to run for the presidency in 2016, but I hope that he will nevertheless make amends for the sufferings martial law inflicted on the nation.
I do not hold the senator personally responsible for my ordeal. As most people say, we must not blame the son for the sins of the father. Besides my view regarding his father's legacy has changed somewhat considering that not much progress has been accomplished by his successors.
It may be noted as well that the case against the Marcos estate is not just the class action initiated by Robert Swift for his 7,000 or so clients; a direct action by individuals like our group of 21 plaintiffs (Ortigas et al. v. Marcos) was also tried in Hawaii together with Swift's suit.
As one of the witnesses in that trial, I was shocked to learn that we individual claimants were left out of Swift's list, even though as former political detainees we also belong to the class he supposedly represents. It seems to me that Swift did not appreciate our contribution to the victims's winning that historic trial.
Though I praise Swift for his consistent and dogged effort, he could not have won the case all by himself and only with his list of clients. Without our direct testimonies, which conveyed to the jury the pain and agony of physical abuse and torture we went through, as well as the fear, insecurity and sorrow we felt, that case could not have achieved the desired judgment. We weathered hostile questioning in depositions and cross-examinations by Marcos' lawyers. We made the jury see the human face of the sufferings of the victims.
I would be happy and feel vindicated if such closure could impart the following lessons: (1) Ambitious politicians must never cross the line like the one Marcos did, or they would have to answer for it in the future; and (2) Obstructing justice for human rights victims of previous regimes makes current government leaders equally liable and guilty of perpetrating the injustice.
In these times when political power is gravitating to the center and subjecting other coequal branches to undue influence, we might see a repetition of the past that ended our democratic aspirations and/or pretensions. I wish that the present generations would prevent a scenario from happening again.—RAMON G. JALIPA, ex-political detainee and individual plaintiff vs Marcos, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Getting a massage is a luxury. But when you are training for something: a marathon, a triathalon, a wedding - massages should be part of the regimen. Plus a massage is a great way to relax tense muscles caused by everyday stress.
I really do wish getting a massage didn't seem like a luxurious indulgence. A massaged body is a much happier body.
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mollipop 7 years
I've never had one, but I've given my boyfriend hints that I'd love to get a gift certificate for a massage at the spa.
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I'm thinking I need one now...
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I got a chair massage in March. I tweaked my neck and 30 minutes made all the difference.
A_Kat 7 years
I'll get one someday!
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I'll get one someday!
rubialala 7 years
Mine was too long ago, Hope and Ims, I'm totally jealous that yours were so recent! For those of you who have NEVER had a massage, you have to do it. It is sooooooooooooooooooo relaxing.
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Today :)
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Today :)
lms 7 years
Yesterday. I had knots in my back and she got rid off them. However, now my shoulders and neck are sore. That is the first time that has ever happened. Now I need a massage to fix my massage!?!?
cravinsugar 7 years
I had one last year sometime. I will be getting one in less than a month though...on my cruise i have decide3d to visit the spa! :-)
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Never had a professional massage. Too insecure about others seeing my body! Not good with strangers touching me!
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i love the full body honey butter buffer!
Beautifulbarbie 7 years
Been awhile for me.
Beautifulbarbie 7 years
Been awhile for me.
chatoyante 7 years
I love to get massages, but it's tough on a student budget. So I keep a little tin in my closet and whenever I take off my jeans & there's change in the pockets, I toss it in the tin. When it gets full enough, I'll book an appointment with that money and start over again. It's so much better than losing the coins in my washing machine or the sofa!
pudgesicle 7 years
I had one last night! I get them very very often, pretty much whenever I have time, bc I live overseas and over here, massages are really cheap in comparison to the US. My job is really stressful and I suffer from insomnia, so the massages help a lot. They're the really great hardcore-deep tissue therapeutic massages, too. I'm not a fan of those $150 massages where all they do is rub oil on you.
leahshae 7 years
I get an hour massage every 2 weeks because I have a type of arthritis that is in my lower spine - I need it. It has made a world of difference in my life. I have seen the same therapist for over a year now, he is wonderful - he spends the entire hour on my back, shoulders and neck. If any of you are in the Dallas area, see Will at the Serenity Nail & Day Spa in Carrollton. You will be glad you did!
tralalala 7 years
I just booked my first ever hot stone massage! I'm excited.
tralalala 7 years
I just booked my first ever hot stone massage! I'm excited.
Fancy04 7 years
Last night. My husband gives great ones.
pixelhaze 7 years
When I get a facial it's on a special bed that virates and massages your back . . .then towards the end she gives you a small massage too with a handheld one. Does that count?And what's rolfing?
pixelhaze 7 years
When I get a facial it's on a special bed that virates and massages your back . . .then towards the end she gives you a small massage too with a handheld one. Does that count? And what's rolfing?
SweetPeasMom 7 years
It's been Waaaayyyyyy too long. I got one in the month before I had SweetPea, and she's 14 months old this week.
the-clam 7 years
Anyone try the hot stone massage? Or rolfing?
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I need one I am going to go get one soon. I have a gift certificate to the oasis spa


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Hi, i need some advice on switching from a linkysys WRT54GSV4 to a gigabyte GN BR32L-RH router, ive tried just installing the new router as per the instructions but to no avail. abit of a technology noob here so is there anything major im likely to miss?
It sends out a signal to my computer and i can create a network that appears and can be found by other computers but no internet comes through whatsoever.
Please ask for any extra information you need as i dont really know what to put here. Thanks in advance to those more technologically blessed than me!
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Unplug your modem, your PC and Router from mains leave about 10min first plug your modem back in and leave a few min untill ready light has settled, then plug the router back in and leave a few min then plug PC back in and switch on (leave them all connected together during this proccess) and see if that helps.
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Ok i will try when im back from work today thanks for the advice.
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im still having a problem, do i need to do anything to uninstall my old router or change any codes anywhere to match the two routers together?
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No you should not need to do that as no software should be on your PC to do with the router, the router is just a gateway to internet
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Run IPCONFIG /ALL in a Command Prompt window. Go to "Start > Run", type…
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...and press Enter. This will show details of all network adapters installed in the PC. Right click in the Command Prompt window, "Select All" and press Enter to copy the details to the clipboard. Paste the details into a forum reply here.
If you are unable to paste the details directly from the computer, because it cannot get online, paste them instead into a blank "Notepad" file, transfer the file to a working PC and copy/paste the details from there. It might just give an indication as to what the problem is.
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finally sorted it thank you for your help, however as far as i can see the problem in my house that i wanted to solve (lack of signal strength and reliability) i upgraded from a G router to an N router and as far as i can see across the house the reliability is still questionable.
is there anything i can do to improve this? ive tried as much as possible to move the router away from any metal and to centralise it as much as possible but due to my setup its quite hard.
I also use a similar frequency wireless headset which i am aware does not help but theres nothing i can do about that so any small tips to boost in any way possible would be appreciated
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You could try home plug networking which uses the house wireingclick here
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Credit for your helpfulness Strawballs but i have already looked at that option and the cost is very high and since most of my internet use is wireless (4 wireless laptops) the viability of having cables plugged in for internet seems defeatist in my eyes.
Or can you you can plug another router in to the other side of the plug to boost signal? If you can thats great, but then that requires another router and these plugs ££££££!
is there any way i can boost the signal of this new device? at the moment it looks like my only option is to move the router to another point in the house and buy 3 very long cables to plug each computer in and attach it to the modem in order to gain better positioning unless theres any obvious signal boosting options im missing?
Thanks again for all your help!
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>>> i upgraded from a G router to an N router and
>>> as far as i can see across the house the
>>> reliability is still questionable.
Are you also using 'N' adapters in the computer(s)? If not, you won't be realising the enhanced performance of 802.11n
>>> Or can you you can plug another router in to
>>> the other side of the plug to boost signal?
You can plug a "Cable/DSL" router (which doesn't incorporate a Modem) into the remote Homeplug but, if you need to share Files/Printers with a computer connected to the main router, you'd be better using a stand-alone "Wireless Access Point". Alternatively, there are "wireless" Homeplugs and one of these would let you connect wirelessly in the remote location.
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Posted November 2, 2010 at 12:32PM
Yes i am, im using a new Macbook Pro with n router and have noticed a minimal gain, any tips would be greatly appreciated,
are there any ad-hoc signal boosters i can make at home which actually work?
i tried the wind surfer but as far as i could see it actually reduced signal...maybe i made it wrong!
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LORD, please provide these folks guidance beyond their own prejudices, and allow them to really see.
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Yes Lord......Amen and Amen.
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This is the last lines of Dr. Murfee's Friday Inspiration sent to all DCSS employees:
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Who is "WE"? (as in the use of the word "our").....could he be referring to a certain demographic? Your thoughts..........?
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I think Murfree's world has two kinds of people in it.....backstabbers.....and buttkissers.
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