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People used to understand that before the age of global warming enlightenment.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Small quibble:
Your image capture has the minus sign above the 35c. The site shows it parallel.
I guess it depends on the browser you are using
Animal spirits? Ice spirits? Polar djinn? So much for their commitment to the objective scientific method. What they are describing as “the cold here is not a temperature but an animal or ice spirit, a polar djinn if you will, trying to find a way in, trying to find a weakness, biting, clawing, burning” is simply the practical observation of The Second Law of Thermodynamics, “Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics#Laws_of_thermodynamics), and that Nature Is A Harsh And Lethal Mistress Indeed ™.
Let’s see in northern cities kids are taught to dress in multiple layers and wear a hat and scarf to avoid too much heat leaving their bodies through their head or exposed skin.
Not a temperature? Yes, not just a temperature indeed, if the Catlin folks actually listened to themselves talk and applied the scientific method for a change they might actually learn something. First dress warmer to trap the heat with insulating layers and put on their hat and mittens. Second, they could learn some science.
“Enthalpy is a measure of the total energy of a thermodynamic system. It includes the internal energy, which is the energy required to create a system, and the amount of energy required to make room for it by displacing its environment and establishing its volume and pressure.
Enthalpy is a thermodynamic potential. It is a state function and an extensive quantity. The unit of measurement for enthalpy in the International System of Units (SI) is the joule, but other historical, conventional units are still in use, such as the British thermal unit and the calorie.
The enthalpy is the preferred expression of system energy changes in many chemical, biological, and physical measurements, because it simplifies certain descriptions of energy transfer. This is because a change in enthalpy takes account of energy transferred to the environment through the expansion of the system under study.
The total enthalpy, H, of a system cannot be measured directly. Thus, change in enthalpy, ?H, is a more useful quantity than its absolute value. The change ?H is positive in endothermic reactions, and negative in exothermic processes. ?H of a system is equal to the sum of non-mechanical work done on it and the heat supplied to it.
For quasistatic processes under constant pressure, ?H is equal to the change in the internal energy of the system, plus the work that the system has done on its surroundings.[1] This means that the change in enthalpy under such conditions is the heat absorbed (or released) by a chemical reaction.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy
The lesson? The Second Law of Thermodynamics, “Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location”, applies to our atmosphere and that Nature Is A Harsh And Lethal Mistress Indeed ™ so wear insulating layers and keep a heat source available when in the cold. The second lesson? It’s not just temperature, it’s Moist Enthalpy as measured in Joules of Energy. Time that cliamte scientists learned that one.
At least Catlin have shown the level of dispassionate scientific analysis thar is required.
Flakes on ice.
I hope we don’t have a tragedy this year.
it’s bound to happen, unless there’s some kind of “close call” that will recommend postponing any more trip until global warming does show up
Actually I hope we do have a ‘tragedy’ this year. Natural selection is a beautiful thing.
How cold is -35c? Any fool in many parts of Canada can tell you that! Heck growing up in Edmonton, Alberta during the 1970’s I experienced a temperature range of -46c to +35c, a range of 80c from darn frigging cold to quite nicely hot! Many winters hovered around -20c to -35c for weeks at a time. Cars need to be plugged in so the engine blocks don’t freeze. Oh, this isn’t counting the highly dangerous wind chill effects which can subtract a considerable amount with even small winds.
No need to send people to the arctic to find out what -35c feels like. Many people around the world live in these conditions every year. Fortunately I don’t any more as I’m sane. If all the Catlin, ahem, researchers get is stories of how cold it was they sure as heck wasted the money of whomever paid for their trip.
If these British flakes were in Edmonton then they probably would have just trekked through the mega-mall there.
APRIL 7, 2011
MORE ON Obama’s scoffing at high gas prices’ impact on Americans. “Obama fills the role of clueless aristocrat by telling a man who explains that he can’t afford to fill his gas tank at current prices that he should instead buy a new car.” If the press reported it, the retort would prove rather embarrassing — which may be why the Associated Press scrubbed it from their coverage of the event
I thought I was being funny when I suggested that they discovered it was cold. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/catlin-makes-new-arctic-discoveries-every-day/