Dear Friends, in
times of heatwaves and frolicking in the sun, we unleash our latest and newest issue in all its colourful splendour, with no less than musical polymath Brian Eno, and what's more, in conversation with his daughter Irial in a uniquely intimate father / daughter setting that makes it all the more charming and fun ---LSB-...]
Not exact matches
To honour and celebrate the recent
heatwave (the longest spell
of glorious sunshine for one hundred years or something...) this month's Tea
Time Treats will be...
NYC just let go
of it's
heatwave so this is perfect
timing how did i live without your blog before?!
Sydney has also missed the intense
heatwaves of the southern states, but it's summer and in this new extra warm world our
time, for the great big heat, will come.
We have been to my sisters house a few
times, we had a beautiful day out HighCliffe beach during the
heatwave and have spent a lot
of time in the garden enjoying the sun.
Other studies suggest the probability
of deadly
heatwaves on this scale will become 5 — 10
times more likely in coming years.
Several western cities set new all -
time June temperature records, due in part to an intense
heatwave the second half
of the month, including Boise, Idaho where the temperature soared to 110 °F.
With the weather warm throughout most
of the country, now is the
time to swap out running leggings for more
heatwave - friendly running shorts.
I love your outfit, like you I love the colour green and now for the first
time in 7 years we have a
heatwave, so lot
of opportunities to wear your sandels, which I like very much.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set
of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director
of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes
of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most
of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures
of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story
of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC
of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last
of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son
of Alvin, Night
of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn
of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next
of Kin,
Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return
of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The
Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession
of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set
of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
On the contrary... Massachusetts (and New England) residents have long known that, once summertime begins, it's only a question
of time until the next
heatwave settles in.
All
of the same content offered in the recent closed beta is available this
time around including Team Deathmatch and Warpath game modes playable on the multiplayer maps
Heatwave and Infernal.
Whether you're experiencing a cold snap in Spring or an Autumn
heatwave, we hope you'll enjoy MAME 0.195 just in
time for the last day
of February.
Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation
Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression
of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation
of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011
heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection
of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation
of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess
of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation
of Mass's method (3
times in excess by my calculation).
«Media have been falling all over themselves to report the recent
heatwave in the East, but have been ignoring the cold spells happening in other parts
of the country at virtually the same
time.
One in which any
of us living on Earth are now four
times as likely to experience a
heatwave than we were during the 1880s.
In fact, as Mr Joshi showed, south eastern Australia's wind farms were generating about 710MW at the
time of the peak electricity demand for the week
of the recent January
heatwave; much
of this was coming from SA's wind farms.
Different parts
of the country suffer floods at different
times, and most serious incidents get news coverage — while
heatwaves tend to hit the country in one go, so coverage is more concentrated.
Chris Field
of the Carnegie Institution, who is co-chairman
of the IPCC's working group II, defends his decision to cite a story from the New York
Times as an illustration
of the effect
of poor electricity supply during a
heatwave: it was not being used to provide quantitative data, or an assessment
of how confident one should be in a result, but just to say that something happened.
For the first
time, wide - ranging impacts
of changes in current climate have been documented: retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shift
of species ranges, and health impacts due to a
heatwave of unprecedented magnitude.
I hope that in 50 years
time as Australians swelter in debilitating
heatwaves, battle fierce bushfires, fight over dwindling water resources, lament the loss
of unique species and tell stories recalling the wonders
of the Great Barrier Reef, they will be reminded
of the names
of those who refused to act in the face
of overwhelming evidence
of what lay ahead.
-- then what explanation (scientific if possible) can be given for the fact that, last year alone, parts
of the USA had the highest surface temperatures on record, Australia had to rewrite their own temperature gauge because it was recording temperatures which went, for the first
time in recorded history, off the scale they were so high and in the UK and Europe we experienced one
of the longest
heatwaves in decades?
The fine weather comes at a
time when tabloid headline writers have been having a field day, with predictions that the fine weather is the start
of a spring and summer
heatwave.
Globally,
heatwaves are happening five
times more often than in the absence
of human - caused global warming.
Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer
heatwave have raised awareness
of the dangers
of climate change, but an «infantile» debate over the validity
of the science has cost Australia precious
time, according to a key Climate Commission expert.
As I understand it, RiHo08 claims to show that events like the 2010 Russian
heatwave are commonplace in Russia, occuring 2 or 3
times a century even in the absence
of Global Warming.
During a
heatwave in North America on 22 July, when grid operators were experiencing record demand peaks and prices had shot up to 10
times the 2011 average — US$ 530 / MWh — EnerNOC provided over 1,200 MW
of demand response across several U.S. states and Ontario, effectively delivering «negawatts» into the system.
New research published today in Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences concludes that extreme
heatwaves have have increased 50
times over the past 30 years and that climate change is to blame.
Between 1981 and 2010, extreme
heatwaves covered 10 percent
of the world, according to the paper, which is 50 to 100
times greater than the 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent
of the Earth's surface covered by extreme heat from 1951 - 1980.
Allen, whose work has shown that global warming tripled the odds
of the severe 2010 Russian
heatwave and tripled the risk
of the widespread flooding in England in 2000, says extreme weather can be linked to climate change given enough computer
time.