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It’s been a while since I’ve tried to add a photo but I see things seem to have changed although documentation hasn’t. As there is no ‘forum profile page’ (error 404) there can be no ‘album’ page. What do we do now? Has there been a permanent redesign causing loss of links or is it just a temporary glitch?
And yet another reference, even earlier. This one I stumbled across when glancing through next week’s Radio Times which I received this morning. There’s a preview to “Storm Troupers: the Fight to Forecast the Weather” which is on BBC4 at 2100 on Monday 23rd. The preview begins, ‘”We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air,” wrote the Italian physicist who – more or less by chance – invented the barometer in the 1640s.’ No mention is given of the Italian’s name but it would seem to be Gasparo Berti. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer).
Just stumbled across this:
I think I first came across the phrase “aerial ocean” fairly recently, either when reading Alexander von Humboldt’s “Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent” or Andrea Wulf’s biography of the great man – “The Invention of Nature”.
So, the problem seems to be that I used the “link” button in the edit panel to create a link – how stupid of me!
Here’s the page on Climate Change:
and my blogs:
http://www.scarlet-jade.com/blogs/Oh, and the home page contains a little message that might be considered appropriate for anyone discussing Climate Change:
OK, four-and-a-halfth attempt to make a posting here. The 3rd try was successful until I added a couple of links, at which point it vanished completely. This one vanished half-way through typing it. Aargh! Anyway, here we go:
I’ve cobbled together a web-page containing info on Climate Change. I will be updating the graphs each month as new data arrives.
My blog page also contains some items on climate which you may find interesting – or not – along with other useful stuff such as how to take care of your toenails!
I’ll not attempt to post the links here but will try and get them in a reply to this post. Fingers crossed.
The one word to describe what happened in February is:
Scorchio!I’m not sure that geoengineering experiments can be rated as good news. Adding CO2 to the atmosphere is a geoengineering experiment and look where that’s got us!
I see the guy complains that “In fact as soon as you a slightly different discourse on this subject, you are branded a climate sceptic.” Did this lose something in translation? What is a “climate sceptic”? I assume he meant “climate-change sceptic” as I doubt that even someone on the outer fringes of the science galaxy such as M Verdier could be accused of believing that climate does not exist.
This site prefers “rack one’s brains” as “wrack” would mean “wreck”. http://grammarist.com/usage/rack-wrack/
I’ve always taken a “wrack of clouds” to refer to a storm-blown wreck of low cloud, “scud” in other words or “stratus fractus”. Although all the sources keep referring to it a “high” cloud, I suspect this may be that although the writers know about words, they know little about clouds. Although high clouds can be seen to be fast-moving, it’s much more likely to be seen in low clouds.
The following, from J R R Tolkein, doesn’t really help the argument one way or the other but I thought I’d drop it in anyway.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
[Passage stumbled across whilst looking for “wrack” on this site: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/109526-there-peeping-among-the-cloud-wrack-above-a-dark-tower-high%5DMoon transiting the Earth; a view from the DSCOVR spacecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdhQsHbWTs
Nice clouds too so it’s on topic. ;-)Quite stunning photo of anticrepuscular rays with a rainbow – and a second, just – at Bryce Canyon:
Nicholas, the small patch of cloud is much whiter than the Ac because it is composed of ice crystals whereas the Ac is mostly, if not wholly, composed of water droplets. It is the beginnings of virga falling from the Ac sheet.
I saw something similar a week or so ago when three or four cells of Ac were bright white instead of the off-white of the rest of the cloud. Gradually, the bright cells dissolved into virga and left a nice hole in the Ac.
Mike, when the new site started, I uploaded my photos according to the instructions provided by Gavin here: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/topic/uploading-and-linking-to-your-cloud-photos-on-the-cloud-forum/ I found it quite easy to use once I realised that two apparently identical “upload” buttons served different purposes. I no longer use Photobucket or Flickr for storing pictures for CAS.
The system has some annoying features such as the message I get when viewing a picture in the album: “Comments are disabled for this picture. Edit the picture to enable them.” Unfortunately, editing the picture has no effect on this message.
Still, at least the pictures are still there. Hope that will still be the case after the upgrade you mentioned.
