{"id":28226,"date":"2015-07-30T15:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=28226"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:17:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T19:17:46","slug":"bella-scusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/30\/bella-scusa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella scusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Se volete monitorare la salute del pianeta, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Surfing_for_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fate surf<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The system, developed by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and partly funded through ESA\u2019s Earth Observation Support to Science Element, allows surfers to measure the temperature of the sea every time they head for the surf. \u00a0<\/span>Potentially, this could provide 40 million\u00a0in situ\u00a0measurements per year around the UK alone, yielding unique information about the coastline. \u00a0A<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">s well as being an important climate variable, sea-surface temperature is an important driver of ocean circulation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Bob Brewin, who led the research and is a keen surfer, said, \u201cSea-surface temperature controls the water density, which controls currents and therefore transports pollutants.\u00a0\u201cIt also affects biological productivity, which in turn affects the growth of all marine animals, from bacteria to fish.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I dati servono anche a calibrare le osservazioni dei satelliti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>O&#8217;s digest &#8211; Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Il predicozzo della settimana riguarda le piantagioni di palme da olio e i due tentativi di fermare la deforestazione con regole condivise: un\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonstockstudy.com\/Public-Consultation\/Draft-Synthesis-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Carbon Stock Study\u00a0<\/a>negoziato da 5 multinazionali del settore con i vari paesi\u00a0e un\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tft-earth.org\/stories\/news\/high-carbon-stock-approach-toolkit-launched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Carbon Stock Approach<\/a> negoziato da Ong ambientaliste e altre multinazionali, non solo per la palma da olio.<\/p>\n<p>Sarebbe bello se tutti si mettessero d&#8217;accordo sulle norme e per farle rispettare, dice l&#8217;editoriale, ma il problema sta anche nella definizione di &#8220;sostenibilit\u00e0&#8221; e nella metrica della biomassa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/policy-define-biomass-sustainability-1.18058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dicono<\/a> Roeland Bosch <em>et al. <\/em>(E&#8217; anche uscito un rapporto di <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-trends.org\/releases\/p\/conversion-timber-forest-monitoring-and-land-use-governance-in-cambodia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest Trends <\/a>sull&#8217;insostenibile deforestazione in\u00a0Cambogia.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03388\/Cecil_the_lion_in__3388298b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/charismatic-lion-s-death-highlights-struggles-of-conservation-scientists-1.18101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elegia<\/a> per il leone Cecil, monitorato da otto anni in una riserva dello Zimbabwe e attirato in una tenuta privata da un <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/28\/walter-palmer-dentist-accused-killing-cecil-lion-upset-hunter-zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cacciatore locale<\/a>, per fare da bersaglio a un <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/29\/world\/africa\/american-hunter-is-accused-of-killing-cecil-a-beloved-lion-in-zimbabwe.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dentista del Minnesota<\/a>, grande <a href=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1fde3a831f5235fcdc8895ea8c66a2c664bf44e7\/0_0_620_372\/master\/620.jpg?w=605&amp;q=85&amp;auto=format&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=d14cd85a9a173cc982225b0ee35ef96e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killer di leoni<\/a> e altri animali carismatici.\u00a0Henry Nicholls intervista David Macdonald dell&#8217;univ. di Oxford, che conosceva Cecil &#8220;molto bene&#8221; e spera non sia stato ucciso invano:<\/p>\n<p><em>The reaction is something to rejoice in: millions of people have used this as a stimulus to express their enthusiasm for the value of nature. That\u2019s the sort of enthusiasm that I hope will influence the way that policy is formulated as human enterprise strives to live alongside biodiversity. That would be a suitable memorial for the apparently illegal death of this particular, charismatic and unusually fascinating individual lion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cecil \u00e8 stato molto rimpianto e il dentista molto bistrattato sui social media in effetti, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/28\/walter-palmer-dentist-accused-killing-cecil-lion-upset-hunter-zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">d&#8217;altronde<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPalmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn\u2019t kill him,\u201d he said. \u201cThey tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. The hunters then found that the dead lion was wearing a tracking collar, which they unsuccessfully tried to hide\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/523503a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Lodge <\/a><\/strong>(non il romanziere) applaude le iniziative del Papa per clima e ambiente in cui &#8220;scienza e fede trovano un terreno comune&#8221;; nel 70\u00b0 anniversario di Hiroshima e\u00a0Nagasaki, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/history-from-blackboards-to-bombs-1.18056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Kaiser<\/a><\/strong> torna sulla distinzione fatta nel 1941 tra la I guerra mondiale &#8220;dei chimici&#8221; e la II &#8220;dei fisici&#8221;. Il meme dura tuttora, ma in realt\u00e0:<\/p>\n<p><em>Although each <\/em>(il progetto del radar e quello della bomba atomica, ndr)<em> was directed by physicists, they teemed with specialists of all stripes. By the end of the war, physicists were a minority \u2014 only about one-fifth \u2014 of the Rad Lab staff. At Los Alamos, the wartime organization chart displayed the groups \u2014 metallurgy, chemistry, ballistics, ordnance and electrical engineering, as well as physics \u2014 arranged in a circle, connected by spindly links. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poi guardo i papers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Su <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/150729\/ncomms8849\/full\/ncomms8849.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em>,<\/a> S\u00f6nke Dangendorf, Eduardo Zorita et al. usano un sacco di matematica per supplire al fatto che<\/p>\n<p><em>our measurements available over the past two centuries represent only a very narrow window of the Earth\u2019s history, limiting our knowledge about natural low-frequency signals in the climate system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Risultato:<\/p>\n<p><em>On the basis of a model assessment of the separate components, we conclude that it is virtually certain (P=0.99) that at least 45%\u00a0of the observed increase in GMSL <\/em>(Global Mean Sea Level, ndt<em>)\u00a0is of anthropogenic origin.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/jul\/29\/world-bank-coal-cure-poverty-rejects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altra notizia<\/a><\/strong> che far\u00e0 piangere Riccardo Sorgenti, il vicepresidente di Assocarboni:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The World Bank said coal was no cure for global poverty<\/strong> on Wednesday, rejecting a main industry argument for building new fossil fuel projects in developing countries&#8230;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prima di andare in ferie<\/strong><br \/>\nClimalteranti pubblica un post di Riccardo Reitano:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climalteranti.it\/2015\/07\/29\/abbagliati-dal-sole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbagliati dal Sole<\/a>\u201d, una new entry per una vecchia bufala, con fra le righe una lezione su come attribuire una causa all&#8217;aumento delle temperature, hint: non si toglie l&#8217;effetto serra dei gas serra da quando l&#8217;attivit\u00e0 solare cala per poter dimostrare che \u00e8 tutta colpa del Sole&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climalteranti.it\/2015\/07\/29\/abbagliati-dal-sole\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nDa Tamino, <a href=\"https:\/\/tamino.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/30\/where-most-of-us-live-with-apologies-to-southern-hemisphere-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lezioncina<\/a> semplice ed efficace su come calcolare la <a href=\"https:\/\/tamino.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/noaatrend.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tendenza<\/a> delle <a href=\"https:\/\/tamino.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/nasa70.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temperature<\/a> nell&#8217;emisfero nord, con le serie NASA e NOAA.<\/p>\n<p>Da Climate Lab, Ed Hawkins\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk\/2015\/an-apples-to-apples-comparison-of-global-temperatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confronta<\/a>\u00a0le\u00a0T previste dai modelli e quelle osservate nella serie HadCrut, tenuto conto del nuovo <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2015GL064888\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">di Cowtan &amp; Way <em>et al.<\/em> tra cui Ed Hawkins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agg. 31\/7:<\/strong> Michael Mann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteo.psu.edu\/holocene\/public_html\/Mann\/articles\/articles\/grl53276.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pubblica<\/a> una bozza non impaginata, per i non-abbonati alle <em>Geophys. Res. Lett<\/em>.; anche <a href=\"http:\/\/www-users.york.ac.uk\/~kdc3\/papers\/robust2015\/background.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Cowtan<\/a> e <a href=\"https:\/\/tamino.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/30\/getting-model-data-comparison-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamino <\/a>spiegano la divergenza del 38%, iniziata nel 2005, confrontando &#8220;le mele con le mele&#8221;, i.e. le T alla superficie delle terre e dei mari, invece che delle terre e dell&#8217;aria sopra il mare, e aggiungendo quelle recenti dell&#8217;Artico che prima mancavano nella serie HadCrut. Un ripasso a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2013\/09\/on-mismatches-between-models-and-observations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questo post <\/a>di Gavin Schmidt non nuoce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neven1.typepad.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/asi-2015-update-5-late-momentum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Da Neven1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neven1.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0133f03a1e37970b01b8d13fce74970c-pi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estensione<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(link corretto, grazie Steph)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>aggiornata\u00a0dei ghiacci artici, temo di essere stata ottimista scommettendo su un minimo di 5 milioni mq, ma finora Baffin e Hudson Bay resistono&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Well done, nerds&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nIn occasione della conferenza sull&#8217;Intelligenza artificiale di Buenos Aires, Mark Tegmark del MIT, Francesca Rossi di Harvard-univ.Padova et al. di Future for Life et al. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopkillerrobots.org\/2015\/07\/aicall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raccolgono<\/a> firme sotto <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/futureoflife.org\/AI\/open_letter_autonomous_weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">una lettera<\/a><\/strong> alle Nazioni Unite che chiede un bando delle armi autonome, ma non se la decisione di distruggere\/uccidere \u00e8 presa da un essere umano.<\/p>\n<p>Per le armi &#8220;intelligenti&#8221; semi-autonome, la lettera da firmare \u00e8 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombiasinminas.org\/index.php?mact=News%2Ccntnt01%2Cdetail%2C0&amp;cntnt01articleid=781&amp;cntnt01origid=15&amp;cntnt01returnid=53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop the Killer Robots<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se volete monitorare la salute del pianeta, fate surf: The system, developed by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and partly funded through ESA\u2019s Earth Observation Support to Science Element, allows surfers to measure the temperature of the sea every time they head for the surf. \u00a0Potentially, this could provide 40 million\u00a0in situ\u00a0measurements per year around the UK&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/30\/bella-scusa\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bella scusa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,16,23],"tags":[235,590,960,1208,1870,2393,2717,4015,4725],"class_list":["post-28226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altri-animali","category-ambiente","category-clima","category-fisica","category-non-profit","tag-ai","tag-armi-autonome","tag-bomba-atomica","tag-cecil","tag-deforestazione","tag-esa","tag-forest-trends","tag-livello-del-mare","tag-nature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43226,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28226\/revisions\/43226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}