Boat story
time was my favorite
part of the game along with just taking in the immersive visual backdrops, imo its more like an interconnected hub world where everything looks and feel much grander in scale then it really is and its done very well in that aspect GOW is essentially to different games
at the same
time, a great storytelling quiet
time with rich lore on the one side and brutal
precise hard hitting combat on the other, mixed up with perfect pacing and a couple of epic cliffhangers
at the endd
Note that
part of the uncertainy in all this is the
time uncertainty — from the ice core records, we can pick a rather
precise time and look
at a rather
precise number for greenhouse gas concentrations, but pinning down the magnitude albedo change
at exactly the same
time (since albedo is not globally uniform, obviously) is impossible.
To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long -
time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more
time);
at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same
time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small
part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so
precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night -
time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become
part of larger hurban areas (
at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small
part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so
precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).