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Post by fascinating on Feb 6, 2012 20:58:37 GMT 1
More or Less, when the series runs, is on at 8pm Sunday. It is one of the best, if not THE best, radio program of all. It should be on every week throughout the year (every day if I had my way) but as it is, it only has a few short series', of about 6 programs each (so it seems to me), per year.
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Post by StuartG on Feb 6, 2012 21:22:37 GMT 1
It's on the World Service at the moment then. If BBC site is searched it says WS.
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Post by fascinating on Feb 6, 2012 22:11:39 GMT 1
I think the WS ones will be repeats of the Radio 4 ones.
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Post by StuartG on Feb 6, 2012 22:26:23 GMT 1
No, listen to the one I cited, they can't be.
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Post by fascinating on Feb 7, 2012 22:06:17 GMT 1
OK, the WS one is only 8 minutes long, which had one item (edited) from the Radio 4 edition (about the global warming bet) plus a frivolous item about the Africa Cup of Nations (sport AGAIN!). The Radio 4 program's available here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd/episodes/playerThe latest one there includes the global warming bet item. I note that the WS edition mentions that the temperature of the Earth is measured using 2000 temperature gauges on land, and 1,300 buoys on the sea, plus sensors on 4000 ocean-going ships. That is quite a small, and biased, sample. With 2000 sensors that is only one per 28,000 square miles of land, which is an area about the size of Ireland, or more than half the size of England. The ships will be going mostly on the main commercial routes, so there is some bias there. With 1,300 buoys that is less than one per 100,000 square miles (an area somewhat larger than the UK).
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Post by StuartG on Feb 7, 2012 23:10:38 GMT 1
Yes, I agree that the amount of sensors is hardly representative. The WMO have about 10,000, the last time I counted them, [nothing better to do!] no not facetious, a radio book lists them, so I sat down and counted them. They are used primarily for local weather forecasts for shipping, they then transmit the info. Trouble is that the various countries say that the results are 'copyright' and aren't keen on having them used by other organisations. Even with those it would still be poor coverage in some areas.
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