Connected: Clouds

Connected: Clouds

1. The wreck of the Royal Charter

   • most notorious storm XIX cent.
   • Fitzroy
     • weather stations
     • first ever weather forecast

2. The Met Office

   • largest computing weather forecast in the world
   • Cray XC40
     • 14 000 trillion calculations in a second
   • 90% accuracy

3. Louis Fry Richardson

   • make predictions more accurate
   • calculate for the whole world
     • orchestra

4. The Cloud

   • shapes the way we live
   • saves lives
     • forecast disease
     • identify patterns

5. Estonia

   • can operate from the cloud
   • "digital name"
   • "building a mindset that is constantly ready to atop new things"

6. The undersea cloud

   • The SubCom Decisive
     • fiber optic cables
     • beams of light
       • how weird, creation of light to carry information
   • global warming
   • 2% of electricity
   • = CO2 airline

7. Killing the clouds

   • Clouds are not able to cool down
     • worse global warming
     • They reflect light
   • Changing clouds changes the climate

8. Fixing the Clouds

   • weather modifications
   • silver iodide
   • seeding