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People often say close to zero
"Maria Elena South (Chile), the driest place on the Earth in the Atacama. MES is dry as Mars and has a mean atmospheric Relative Humidity (RH) of 17.3%. It has a soil RH at 1m depth of 14%"
With close to zero humidity, the Atacama is one of the most arid places in the world, "
"The Atacama Desert in Chile, which has virtually zero precipitation or humidity"
"The world's lowest recorded relative humidity value occurred at Coober Pedy in the South Australia desert when the temperature was 93 degrees and the dew point was minus 21 degrees producing a relative humidity of 1 percent.16 Dec 2011
stewgreen
Stewgreen. I hate to correct you about the humidity of the most extreme parts of the Atacama Desert but nowhere on Earth has 0% humidity (although it might feel like it) when I have no direct experience of the central desert area in Chile. I have only visited the Peruvian coastal area where there are fogs. I believe in the driest parts, relative humidity can get down to around 35% - definitely prune making weather.
Supertroll
Remember the NGO woman who also works for the BBC as head of social outreach and did SoICanBreathe season
"Emily Kasriel @ekasriel
People don't like solutions handed down to them by people who know. We need co-creation of solutions #socsent #whatworks2017 "
stewgreen
Times: "Google pledging to ensure that results from reputable sources appear above conspiracy theories and racist material."
We know where that one is going
tricky blogpost
\\Google is asking for your help to spot fake news results.
On Tuesday, Google will have new feedback tools in its search results so users can flag content that appears to be false or misleading. (Facebook launched similar tools earlier this year ...) This will help teach Google's search algorithms to weed out hoaxes and, in theory, keep them buried in search results.
**Google also says its algorithms have now been trained to demote "low quality" content based on signals like whether the information comes from an "authoritative" page.//**
stewgreen
Caliche - that was the word used for the top soil of the desert when I worked in the Nitrate mine in the Atacama
zero % daytime humidity
stewgreen
Stewgreen. Interesting gardening predictions, but would have to see if they are based on projected trends or climate change model fantasies. We in Eastern England already live in semi-desert rainfall conditions (25 inches or less per year) and the only thing that saves us is that rainfall is distributed over the whole year. What may happen in the near future is that rainfall may become more seasonal, being concentrated in the winter with droughts in the summer. This would return us to conditions prevalent during past interglacials when carbonates accumulated in our soils (calcrete or caliche) something currently not happening. Is a projected 5 degree temperature increase even reasonable? I am, however, prepared with a largely gravel garden in the back, and brickweave in the front!
Supertroll
The Westminster Environmental Audit Committee have squeezed out a "devolpement" report - months in the making (2 years actually).
The foundation for all the hundreds (thousands?) of hours work put in ...? Yes, The Global Goals - the obvious intent of their work being to gold plate those goals.
The Government should start a national conversation about implementing the Goals, working with the BBC and other national media, and provide the public with ways to get involved. This could take place as part of Red Nose Day and Comic Relief, and link with charities working in the UK and overseas..
Your taxes at work - we're doomed.
tomo
Stewgreen: The RHS is another organisation from which I've just cancelled my subscription and membership! I shall send the RHS a suitably worded email. Well done the BBC and the RHS!!!!
In fact I have suffered from an awful lot of damage in the garden overnight, resulting from severe frost brought on by man-made global warming.
Phillip Bratby
Something just tacked on end of news - Phil a (Gardeners Question time old timer) saying weather is more important to Gardens than climate change ..and recently places were running dry
(well there seems plenty of rain these days) ..raining now ..hailstones yesterday
Must be a reply to Shukmanns new piece Climate change could transform gardens
stewgreen
Fracking protesters are ultimately protesting against possible damage to local humans and local economy.
But their harassment style protesting does damage the lives of locals and the economy.
Is there an underground aquifer which is unusable due to fracking.?
\\Lancashire police “stretched to the limit” but Government says no extra money for anti #fracking protests //
100 officers/day taken off other jobs
£100K/week cost
Round number alarm.
"Mr Grunshaw said this means Lancashire Constabulary will have to pay at least £2.6m to police the protests "
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