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Breathing Earth

bornkillerbornkiller AdministratorIn your girlfriends snatch
edited March 2011 in Life
Gives you some over trumped statistics about our planet.
However! Kinda interesting
http://www.breathingearth.net/
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  • buddhabuddha Regular
    edited March 2011
    This is kind of cool, figured it could use a bump.

    Don't know how accurate it really is though.
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  • JustAnotherAssholeJustAnotherAsshole Regular
    edited March 2011
    I try not to pay attention to that stuff.
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  • busxbusx Acolyte
    edited March 2011
    This is a really cool idea, though the accuracy is probably way off. Seeing the birth/deaths since you started watching is kind of haunting to me, it reminds me of those commercials where they tell you "x people died in the world during this commercial from ______."
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  • ducklipsducklips Regular
    edited March 2011
    buddha wrote: »
    This is kind of cool, figured it could use a bump.

    Don't know how accurate it really is though.

    good bump love, this is super interesting. Again the accuracy but the Earth itself really is going to shit. TC Boyle says its too late for Earth. Idk about this guy though. He is a lil off his rocker.

    http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?4
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  • JustAnotherAssholeJustAnotherAsshole Regular
    edited March 2011
    ducklips wrote: »
    good bump love, this is super interesting. Again the accuracy but the Earth itself really is going to shit. TC Boyle says its too late for Earth. Idk about this guy though. He is a lil off his rocker.

    http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?4

    There's more than just that guy who think we've fucked things up beyond repair.
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  • PacinoPacino Regular
    edited March 2011
    bornkiller wrote: »
    Gives you some over trumped statistics about our planet.
    However! Kinda interesting
    http://www.breathingearth.net/

    how accurate is this? how do they actually know this?? what are these stats based on???
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  • busxbusx Acolyte
    edited March 2011
    I'm pretty sure every country has some kind of governing body determining average birth/death rates, and the same goes for CO2 emissions. They probably took the latest updates for this data, and put it all together in one dynamic interface. It's very unlikely that all the data is 100% accurate because it has to be based on averages, nevertheless it's a cool idea.
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  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited March 2011
    Pacino wrote: »
    how accurate is this? how do they actually know this?? what are these stats based on???
    Scroll down the page.
    Birth and death rates: 2010 estimates, from the CIA World Factbook
    Population: Data is based on July 2010 estimates from the CIA World Factbook. When Breathing Earth is started, it uses each country's birth and death rates to calculate how populations have changed since July 2010, and adjusts its figures accordingly. It continues adjusting the various population figures as you watch it, each time a person is born or a person dies.


    CO2 emission rates: 2006 figures from the United Nations Statistics Division. These are the most up-to-date figures as of October 2010. Collating CO2 emissions data for every country on Earth, representing the same time period, is undoubtedly a massive and very complex task that relies on the availability of many other sets of data. This probably explains why the most recent CO2 emissions data available is from 2006.


    CO2 emission rates from four years earlier: When Breathing Earth was first built, it used 2002 figures, also from the United Nations Statistics Division. When you hover your mouse over a country, Breathing Earth compares the 2002 and 2006 figures and indicates whether that country's CO2 emissions have increased or decreased in that time, using the red or green arrow that appears near the bottom-left.
    There was an unavailability of a portion of the data for a few of the tinier countries (eg. Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Lesotho). In such cases, I made estimates based on their population, economy, and the data of their relevant neighbours. In all such cases, the figures were so low that even had my estimates been wildly inaccurate, the effect on the simulation would have been negligible.
    I couldńt imagine this shit being pinpoint accurate, being based on averages? :confused:
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  • ducklipsducklips Regular
    edited March 2011
    JustAnotherAsshole wrote: »
    There's more than just that guy who think we've fucked things up beyond repair.


    obviously, it was just an example
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