Lift your eyes to the sky and see the contrails of the aircraft .. E 'DALL'OPAL LAUNCHED THIS INVITATION TO BRITISH CITIZENS TO HELP SCIENTISTS IN RESEARCH ON CLIMATE
Di Mattia Paolinelli Probabilmente i ricercatori inglesi del Met Office e della Royal Meteorological Society che partecipano ai progetti Opal (Open Air Laboratories) non sono troppo al corrente delle faccende di Internet. Avranno pensato al crescente fenomeno della “citizen science”, del cloud computing e avranno detto: perché no? Perché non trovare un modo divertente per avvicinare le persone al mondo della Scienza? Ed ecco combinato il pasticcio, o perlomeno, ecco che viene inconsapevolmente messa in piedi una vera e propria polveriera.
Galeotta fu una ricerca, si potrebbe dire. Ma in questo caso bisogna usare il presente e specificare that research is on climate. To be more precise the objective of the research is to examine the ways in which humans are influencing the climate and how people can adapt to rising temperatures.
Well, to involve young and old in the research, as the Opals have devised a series of simple tasks easy to perform outdoors, as they were a game, but a game are not. These experiments, after all, and calling on the people who decide to adhere to record the results of these small tests into a "workbook" to keep until the time of their posting on the Internet.
But what are these tests? One is to use a mirror and a compass to determine wind direction at the altitude of the clouds, another goal has always been the wind, but our height and is the use of soap bubbles to measure speed and direction .
those described above were experiments 2 and 3. The fourth leaves the wind to focus on the sun and the chill ..
But it lacks the most important .. The first: watch il cielo alla ricerca delle scie di condensa (Contrails). Perché? Dato che il tema è piuttosto delicato (perlomeno sul Web) riporto precisamente il testo del sito dell’Opal:
By looking for contrails in the sky and reporting your results online, you'll help scientists test the accuracy of existing computer models that tell us where contrails should be.
Contrails are the tracks that planes leave behind when they fly. They are formed when water vapour from the plane's exhaust condenses in the cold air and forms ice crystals. This line of ice crystals is called a contrail.
Contrails are important Because They May Be Of Our contributing to the warming climate. Just like high clouds, They Prevent Some infrared radiation leaving the earth.
Now, I can not predict the future, but I think some bizarre mail Opal will soon reach the researchers are talking about an entirely different sort of wakes ..
The news appeared on the website of the Telegraph now five days ago (you can find it here
) and with very different tones on the site
"Whattsupwiththat " , but readers in Italy Nautilus is the first to read it: this is the start of a new tussle between supporters and detractors of chemtrails? We'll see. In any case, you can immediately get a better idea of \u200b\u200bthe research going to visit the site
Opal and in particular the section on "Climatic Survey (
here and here
). For the moment, is all.
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