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To: Sdgla who wrote (888169)	9/16/2015 10:26:23 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576884

This Is What Your Weather Forecast Looks Like With A Bit Of Climate Science Added In by Katie Valentine Sep 15, 2015 12:51pm CREDIT: www.wxshift.com It’s common knowledge that weather and climate aren’t the same thing. Weather is short-term fluctuations in precipitation, humidity, and temperature, while climate is long-term atmospheric behavior. Typically, climate trends aren’t mentioned in meteorological forecasts — until now. WXshift, a new website from Climate Central, allows users to get weather forecasts and see long-term regional climate trends at the same time. Users can select their state, city, or zip code, and then explore short-term weather predictions and long-term temperature and precipitation trends in the location. Richard Wiles, senior vice president for program strategy and integration for Climate Central, thought of the idea for WXshift about three years ago. To him, the idea of giving people climate data with their weather forecast just seemed obvious. “Weather is how people experience climate,” he told ThinkProgress. The weather forecast, he said, is “the easiest, simplest way to get the facts on climate change to the broadest audience. Everybody cares about the weather … and climate is the future of weather.” The website, which pulls from 100 years of U.S. temperature data from more than 2,000 weather stations, also lays out ten “climate indicators,” including extreme heat, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and El Niño. Each indicator has facts on how it contributes to climate change, or how climate change contributes to it — the site explains, for instance, how El Niño contributes to elevated temperatures, and also how climate change could increase the likelihood of extreme El Niños and La Niña events. CREDIT: www.wxshift.com These climate indicators “take climate change and present this bulletproof argument,” Wiles said. “If you look at all of those, you come out with one conclusion. There’s no way around it when you’re done with those ten. But Wiles said allowing people to see how climate change has affected their cities and states over time may present even more compelling data on the planet’s warming trend. “It’s really hard to argue with a local temperature trend that shows that summers are warming or winters are warming,” he said. “It strips away all the political baggage that tends to be attached to climate change, and just gives people the information in a way you’re more likely to accept it.” This isn’t Climate Central’s first foray into making the link between weather events and long-term climate trends. The organization has been working to advise television meteorologists on the link between weather and climate since 2012 — historically, meteorologists as a group have been known more for their climate skepticism than their willingness to tie climate change trends into their 10-day forecasts. But according to an April study, climate denial among meteorologists may be fading. Climate Central is planning to design an app to go along with the website soon, and Wiles said they’re also looking into adding new features to the website — little things like seeing what the high temperature was on your birthday in a given year. The site is also open to partnerships with other companies and organizations as a way of ensuring that more weather sites start delivering climate information. “We want to transform the way people get their weather forever,” Wiles said, “because there’s no going back. [Climate change] is the biggest problem we have.” thinkprogress.org

To: Sdgla who wrote (888169)	9/16/2015 11:06:20 AM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576884

You posted a con job PR piece by her own paid staffer, which attempts to apologize for Fiorina's widely panned, miserable tenure as CEO of HP, during which the stock was crushed and after which she was summarily fired (by a woman - good luck finding sexism there). "The numbers"... lol... what a dufus statement... retard line of the year. Her candidacy is going nowhere so there is not too much of a point in going on about how moronic your proclamation of "numbers showing her success" was. Ahh... what the hell: She actually made the list... the 19ths worst CEO of all time From USA Today “Fiorina was bad. Everyone seems to agree on this now,” wrote then-technology USA TODAY columnist Keven Maney immediately following her forced ouster Feb. 8, 2005. Some thought her tenure would be cleared as time passed. But that really hasn’t been the case.The stock under Fiorina was a disaster — falling 65% from July 19, 1999, to Feb. 8, 2005. It was a tough time for the stock market, too, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped 15% during the same time. But HP’s stock even underperformed the S&P 500 Information Technology Sector index. Source: S&P Capital IQ