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Wildlife warning ,Cossie [message #37436]

Sat, 21 October 2006 06:33

Aussie

Really getting into it

Registered: August 2006
Messages: 475

You should seriously consider moving back to Scotland, the wildlife is heading north due to global warming.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061020/sc_afp/britainanimalsclimatewarming_061020070253
Can't imagine how you are going to cope with an average temperature increase of 38.3 degrees F. over the next few years.
It's enough to cause your haggis to go into spontaneous combustion. (not to mention what it'll do to your malt store)
Aussie

[Updated on: Sat, 21 October 2006 06:39]

That 38.3 figure [message #37444 is a reply to message #37436]

Sat, 21 October 2006 11:22

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

Amazing that a silly mistake like that has made it into the article. The specific temperature 3.5 degrees Centigrade, 3.5 degrees above freezing, is 38.3 degrees Fahrenheit -- but a temperature change of 3.5 degrees Centigrade is a change of only 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

It sounds like one of these AFP people stuck the Centigrade figure into a temperature converter without considering that the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales start at different points, and to get change only you need to subtract 32. Honestly! It's a mistake a 10 year-old wouldn't make.

David

[Updated on: Sat, 21 October 2006 11:24]

I don't find the mistake at all surprising ... [message #37486 is a reply to message #37444]

Sun, 22 October 2006 02:08

cossie

On fire!

Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699

... my daughter is a post-graduate student at York University and I have it on the best possible authority that the entire post-graduate community is permanently inebriated.

I understand that the bit about migration to heights of 150 metres refers to a particular professor who has moved his residence from York to Pickering, taking with him his entire menagerie of pets. It seems that no-one pointed out to him that parakeets, hamsters and llamas were not native fauna.

I think it's much too early to worry. OK, the Southern Counties may be speaking French within the next century, but we're still safe from the kangaroos and kiwis - and the haggis is a particularly adaptable creature!

For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.

Re: I don't find the mistake at all surprising ... [message #37514 is a reply to message #37486]

Sun, 22 October 2006 21:46

Aussie

Really getting into it

Registered: August 2006
Messages: 475

Deeej, where do you find a C to F converter that doesn't take into account the 32 degrees? It would be a pretty dodgy one.
Perhaps the AFP should start employing 10 year olds.

Cossie, Don't you worry just yet then. Keep sitting in your rocking chair stroking your pet haggis but watch out for getting swamped by all those critters from the south heading north.
Also keep in mind that if your haggis spontaneously combusts whilst you are stroking it you are going to get serious burns on your wee sporran.

Aussie

[Updated on: Sun, 22 October 2006 21:53]

Re: I don't find the mistake at all surprising ... [message #37515 is a reply to message #37514]

Sun, 22 October 2006 22:04

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

Aussie said,

>Deeej, where do you find a C to F converter that doesn't take into account the 32 degrees? It would be a pretty dodgy one.

If it's a converter for temperature change rather than absolute temperature, then it wouldn't be dodgy at all. It's only dodgy if you use an absolute temperature convertor when you should be using a temperature change convertor. The latter do exist, though if you don't specify which you want people are likely to assume you want the former.

If you can't find one, all you need to do is multiply the centigrade value by 9/5. That is the sort of thing they definitely teach to 10 year-olds. It's simple fractional multiplication; you don't even need a calculator.

David

Re: I don't find the mistake at all surprising ... [message #37516 is a reply to message #37515]

Sun, 22 October 2006 22:18

Aussie

Really getting into it

Registered: August 2006
Messages: 475

Thanks for putting me straight on that
Aussie

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