This is one of the major puzzles for weather specialists and the science behind this is fairly young.
With the help from the Grameen Foundation and a not-for-profit called OpenMind he staffed up a small call-center where mobile phone owners can call up and ask about weather, history, science, whatever they want.
Anyone that's ever tried to plan an outdoor activity in advance knows that weather forecasting is not an exact science, but the perpetual sky-watchers at NASA may have inadvertently found a way to improve these guesstimations.
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As reported on the website Real Science, forty percent of weather stations in the Historical Climatology Network set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s.
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All told, 5m Brazilians live in danger zones, at the mercy of rogue weather, according to Aloizio Mercadante, the science minister.
She said the rover will start sending weather data Tuesday but some of the "exciting science" won't begin for about nine Mars days.
Even though the science determining whether carbon dioxide is fundamentally changing weather patterns is, at best, mixed, our political and cultural elite say it is so.
The release marks the latest chapter in a story that has run for several years, with critics of climate science trying to force institutions to release raw weather station data rather than figures that have been processed and analysed.
As early as tonight, the NASA team will upload repeating commands designed to "wring a few additional weather measurements" out of Phoenix by placing it in "terminal science mode, " meaning that the lander will repeat the same sequence of actions over and over again, every day before shutting down for 19 hours.
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If you hesitate before signing on to the idea of imported science, it could be because you are only a fair-weather believer in free trade.
So there are no exact answers, just some important strands in the science and a lot more research still needed to understand exactly why our weather is so bad.
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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