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[Kraznaya]

It's misleading because the states have very, very different populations to each other and the countries there have very different populations both to each other and to the states they are compared with. If you make a GDP per capita one, that would be much more informative.

Well, the GDP per capita for American states would probably fall within a narrow range of equivalent countries. Now, there would be a noticeable difference between West Virginia and Massachusetts, but not so much that it would really change the class of countries they're equivalent to. I think you would be hard pressed to find 50 countries that could match even closely to the GDP per capitas of the US states.

 

[Tee Kay]

I think you would be hard pressed to find 50 countries that could match even closely to the GDP per capitas of the US states.

And as a matter of fact I was:

 

[Kraznaya]

That map doesn't really tell you much, does it?

 

[RedRalph]

Yah, i'd like to see a similar map done with other big countries such as india...

It would be really interesting to see one done on sparsely populated countries like Russia and Canada...

 

[Rossiya]

Was the producer of that map Italian or something?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

No, German

 

[TheLastOne36]

Netherlands now warmer then before?

Global warming is a complex phenomenon – so much so that some scientists still dispute it’s even happening. One indication of this complexity is the fact that its consequences are distributed quite unevenly, sometimes counter to the global trend, in other instances ahead of it.

A recent report by the Royal Dutch Weather Institute KNMI, quoted in the NRC Handelsblad (dd. 31 July), shows that average temperature in the Netherlands has risen twice as fast as the average global temperature.

As a consequence, average temperatures in some Dutch cities now resemble those of French cities of the previous decade. (No word on how much hotter those have become, though). The cities pair up thus:

* Maastricht = Poitiers
* Utrecht = Lyon
* Flushing (Vlissingen) = Nantes
* Den Helder = Rennes
* Groningen = Paris

Out of curiosity, has any of our french posters notice if france is warmer then before or not?

 

[Tee Kay]

Was the producer of that map Italian or something?

No. Just goes to prove Krasnaya's point, really.

 

[Steph]

Out of curiosity, has any of our french posters notice if france is warmer then before or not?

When I was young, I could do some sledge in winter on the road in front of my parents house. We had snow for at least a few weeks.
Now, they hardly have snow for a few days.

 

[Godwynn]

When I was young, I could do some sledge in winter on the road in front of my parents house. We had snow for at least a few weeks.
Now, they hardly have snow for a few days.

Same thing in Southern Illinois. I remember playing outside with my sister and sliding on the snow with garbage can lids.

We haven't had a lot of snow like that since... 2004?

 

[Cato the Elder]

Godwynn/Steph - is it possible that the areas you're living in now are a lot more urbanised than the ones you grew up in? The urban heat island effect can do a surprising lot.

It snows here at least once a year, and the snow doesn't tend to stick either.

 

[Godwynn]

Godwynn/Steph - is it possible that the areas you're living in now are a lot more urbanised than the ones you grew up in? The urban heat island effect can do a surprising lot.

It snows here at least once a year, and the snow doesn't tend to stick either.

Heh, I live in a town of 11,000. When my family moved here in 1990, there were only 10,000 people.

 

[Zulu Impi]

It would be nice if it got warmer where I live in MA if anything the winters have been worse the last few years.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I never liked winter

 

[Dachs]

I never liked winter

I pity you, good sir. Without winter, there wouldn't be powder, and without powder, skiing becomes so much more workmanlike...

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Here's North America without fake America (wherever Obama leads or ties in the polls):

I like the Isthumus of Idaho.

 

[Dachs]

You'd have to get rid of Canada, too, at the very least. Possibly Mexico as well.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I never liked winter

W.I.N.T.E.R. produces superbly made units, among other things. I demand an apology at once!

 

[Annex]

Here's North America without fake America (wherever Obama leads or ties in the polls):

I like the Isthumus of Idaho.

And the West Virginian peninsula

 

[Steph]

Godwynn/Steph - is it possible that the areas you're living in now are a lot more urbanised than the ones you grew up in? The urban heat island effect can do a surprising lot.

It snows here at least once a year, and the snow doesn't tend to stick either.

If you read my message, I said "at my parents", so it was a comparison for the same place.
And it's a place with 500 inhabitants, quite spread...

Here's a picture taken from my old bedroom two or three years ago, in winter.


It doesn't strike me as overpopulated, and not very snowy.