h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... knowing how topic drift seems to be a constant

and inconsistency appears to be the only constant in my life

Anyway:

I find it interesting that many people deny climate change but take weather advice from a rodent

Some folks also take weather advice from an annually published almanac.


Interesting thing about weather, we're getting pretty good at predicting weather over short terms and long terms. Forecasts for the next few hours to the next few days are typically quite accurate mostly, and predictions for the general climate over months, years and decades is becoming rather reliable as well. But between those, over a few weeks, we typically have absolutely no idea whatsoever what the weather may be.

So maybe Puxawottsit Phil ain't so bad after all.

It's good to hear from you, Baron. I hope you're okay all things considered?

Weather forecasts here are difficult because there are so many islands and waterways and the country lies between the mainland climate to the south and east and the changeable sea climate from other directions. But comparing Danish weather forecasts with Norwegian and German usually gives me a good idea of ​​how the weather will develop over the next two to three days.

Thanks.

If your curious how my Monday went, I posted about it in my journal.

F105207?thread=3696077?thread=&show=20&skip=40#pi43

There's something wrong

All I get from that links is:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessage() on a non-object in /var/www/pliny.h2g2.com/application/modules/default/views/scripts/error/error.phtml on line 20

I checked your home page here, but your latest journal was "Hootooversary" from Posted Sep 9, 2017

From "somewhere within" my P/S

DON'T worry about tomorrow.
After all, today is the tomorrow
you worried about yesterday!

I had no trouble accessing that link.

After changing from Pliny to Alabaster neither had I. As you might have noticed by now.

I find it disturbing that I can't access anything in Pliny but how to change skin.

Of course I find the history of the Baron's ordeals more disturbing, though.

Correction. That second sentence should be: I find it disturbing that I can't access everything in Pliny but have to change skin

All my P/S works ok in "brunel" but not in crappy "pliny"

I was toldthat my P/S should NOT work in hootoobut it does! and has baffled programmers etc
I was also informed not to touch it as such for now

Pliny has been in trouble trouble ever since Vesuvius buried Pompei.

Suppose he'd taken warning from porpoises going the other way?

Pink Floyd would've had to find another venue

I've returned from Pliny to Alabaster. W*rks much faster too

Yesterday was a Th*rsday. But one of the good ones:

The Danish parliament decided to build an artificial island in the North Sea. Calling it The Energy Island. It will house 650 offshore wind turbines, which will reach over 250 meters into the air. When the island is fully developed, it will be able to supply electricity to 10 million households. Four times as many as there are in the country today. The surplus will be sold to neighboring countries. Preliminary agreements have been concluded with Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

In otter news:

10,000 Danish citizens who have been vaccinated against covid-19 will be monitored for two years to study the effects and side effects of various covid vaccines. Including whether there are vaccines that work better in some sections of the population than in others.

So far, given a choice I'd prefer the Pfizer vaccine.

There are currently studies underway to determine whether the existing vaccines can be used to boost one another against the rise in variant virus strains.

Johnson and Johnson is petitioning to be allowed to go with its new vaccine, which only uses one shot.

Effectiveness? " 66% percent effective at preventing moderate to severe disease from COVID-19 and 85% effective at preventing severe disease."
http://www.verywellhealth.com/johnson-and-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-5093160

"The vaccine was also found to be fully protective against hospitalization and death and the protection against severe disease included multiple variants of COVID-19, including the B.1.351 variant found in South Africa"