News Post by Ryan Maue
A government issued report from the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) sounds the alarm about the incredible impacts of climate change upon UK: Wi-Fi signal range and strength will be greatly affected because of warmer temperatures. Of course, there are other concerns like railroad tracks buckling, better wind turbines to deal with higher winds, and flood protection.
I think the UK Telegraph and Guardian are sort of mocking the story, especially with the deadpan language and imagery in their stories. To me, it seems there are better ways to promote infrastructure stimulus funding rather than highlighting the effects of climate change on Wi-Fi signals.
Climate change ‘threatens UK wi-fi connections’, says government report — UK Guardian
Climate change ‘could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply’ — UK Telegraph
[note: commenter wiglaf says: They are missing a word in the title. It should read: Climate change regulation ‘could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply’.]
“By 2030, you’d be more likely to find a climate change advisor swinging gently from a lamppost, than competitive renewable energy. Committees of wise men and other bureaucrats can make recommendations – but politicians, who must implement the policies, have to face real voters”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/09/cccomm_renewable_energy_report/
And the tarmac will not melt and fill the holes……by now the holes have holes……and the little repair done has already disappeared into another hole. Here (UK) new tarmac has to be “quiet” (less tyre noise) unfortunately it is also porous, and slippery.
Reading through the comments at the Telegraph brings a smile to my face. Not too long ago the few daring to speak out against this kind of propaganda were buried under piles of appeals to authority and name calling. Now it’s quite the opposite.
Yeah, gotta get that “message” out there… sure. The message is out. The people can see right through it.
When I read this I gained some confidence that the MSM is beginning to poke fun at these folks – the Wi-Fi connection figured TOO prominently in the article for it to be taken seriously.
I thought the article was written in a way to expose the insanity of it all. An insider’s joke. As in …. give them all the rope they need. A True Believer Journalist would have buried that element somehow…..?
Its totally embarrassing.
Yeah, and that would be why you can never get any decent WiFi here in Oz, eh?
Relax, folks.
As somebody who uses WiFi at 30-35 C (yes, I live in a very hot area…), I can assure you, no problem.
My, I wonder if that is sheer stupidity or something beyond that.
I would appreciate greatly seeing a cite or even original notes on the measurement of that effect vis-a-vis the “water absorption frequency” being greatest at or about 2.4 GHz (it was Wiki that made the reference to resonant effects, which are often linked with loss and/or ‘absorption’ effects). You do realize that our national premier meteorological RADAR, the WSR-88D (as well as the WSR-98D) operate not too far above 2.4 GHz (as do our ASR series of RADARs, but those are another story), for the purpose of less (or least) attenuation (to precip) while still using as high a frequency as possible to keep the wavelengths short (a trade-off for best antenna size for a given beamwidth angle, about a degree on the NEXRAD series) in contrast to either C-band wx RADAR (e.g. the TDWR systems and many TV station wx RADARs) or heaven forbid an X-band (10 GHz RADAR) which shows the highest attenuation to precip/liquid water suspended or precipitating out of the atmosphere (via Cumulonimbus usually) but has the shortest wavelength/smallest dish size for a desired beamwidth.
BTW, pls make a note of the screen name, as there are other Jim(s) about: “_Jim”.
Regards
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Re Dave Andrews says: May 9, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Nature does it bigger/louder/faster. All we’d need to disrupt a lot of the modern world is another Carrington Event. Massive CME, very bad for sensitive radios. I get the feeling that this is a typical bit of Gray churnalism. She’ll happily slap her name to any press release, and suspect there’s a request for funding behind this one. Or it’s spin to try and boost the value of more UK spectrum auctions that are due soon.
From what I have seen this effect is most pronounced on series-string street lamps using dated (’30s) techniques to minimize the lay-out of wire and fed by specialized constant-current transformers and each light having individual over-voltage (burned-out bulb bypass) ‘shorting’ discs that bypass an open filament (much like a series-string Christmas tree light set) so as to keep current flowing through the entire set …
/sarc (partly)
Ref: Did High Altitude EMP Cause the Hawaiian Streetlight Incident?
Wow…. Just Wow! (Dumbfounded to the max!) I’d say more but my dumbfounded condition prevents it. Wow!
Anthony Watts says:
May 9, 2011 at 11:48 am
Never take your laptop outside on the patio where it may be a few degrees warmer…it could be bad. /sarc
This is the most effing stupid thing I’ve ever read.
Indeed it is, welcome to the UK Government, but similar policies coming to a nice country like yours, sooooooooooooooon.
From another engineer that has a similar background, you are correct.
Please note that WiFi works just as well in the summer as it does in the winter, a much greater delta in temperatures than anybody has dared claim for AGW.
3 men in white coats are looking for her if you come across her do not talk or go near her just ring the police
Commenting via wi-fi from my dock @ur momisugly 92 deg F & 73% relH in Fla, warmer than they’ll ever see in the UK …. oh wait, you probably can’t read this because wi-fi won’t work in hot humid weather. Hmmmm, if you can read this, the article is a crock.
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Let me carry on from where you stopped.
Bad body odour – blame global warming
Been arrested – blame global warming
Can’t dance – blame global warming
Having an affair – blame global warming
Failed to do your homework – blame global warming
Forgot to buy milk – blame global warming
Forgot to pay child support – blame global warming
Global warming is like the Devil – it made me do it. Co2 is a Satanic gas.
I hope that no one with nut allergies was harmed in the publishing of these articles 🙂
I will try posting this from Hong Kong, using wifi.
So did it get through?
All you folk claiming to be posting comments from hot climates – stop with the lies. Your claims are blatantly false. We know you can’t be posting in heat, because that’s what the models say.
Well from my amateur radio experience. Warmer temperatures and increased humidity can actually ‘improve’ radio reception/propagation of VHF/UHF /SHF over a longer distance!
This is not an example of insanity but of inanity: take a place, any place, and find another place with a 3 or 5C warmer annual temperature. What billions of infrastructure are needed to maintain that other place? NEGATIVE billions. You SAVE money by living in a slightly warmer place. We move from Calagry to Phoenix, Arizona to save infrastructue dollars.
These people have the real world experience of house plants.
The most annoying thing about this sort of nonsense is the very same people warning of disaster after disaster seem determined to cause real disasters by preventing the reliable and affordable supply of electricity to homes and businesses. The simple outcome of this is blackouts, with all their attendent drain on the economy, and deaths caused by people either not having access to or being unable to afford heating in winter.
Never mind the wifi, what about the cooking and heating!
Smokey says:
May 9, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Smokey
I fondly recall staying in a little Cockroach Hilton next to the Santa Fe/Burlington
Track in in Winslow AZ and the 3:00 am wake-up of an 85 mph intermodal
whizzing by about 50 ft from my room. With an Air Temp of 85F. after a 105 F
day- no derailment that I recall…
Crazy, indeed….
But they have already convinced the children that things are warming.
Children always rebel, and that is the Warmists undoing.
Wait until the children have to walk 5 miles to school in blizzards while the Warmists have special priveledges to drive.
Most of the environmentally conscious adults are now waking up to the fact that the Warmists are selling insurance for something that is not happening.
I’ve read some crazy stuff regarding global warming before, but this one is the craziest one yet.
The sound of stupid is a painful ringing in my ears. I’m flabbergasted that someone actually put this article into print.
Even if true, just raise two fingers to Ofcom’s ridiculous UK 100mW output power restriction.
Its encouraging to see the past agw threat digress to the point of mocked humor. Amused, heartened, and exonerated for about a thousand rants made over the years to those many doomsayers in my life…..cheers.