Citizen Science Goes to Sea The Royal Navy was taught to be very
thorough during World War I. At sea, despite battles and storms,
they recorded the weather every four hours dutifully into
logbooks. Good thing, too. Little did those sailors realize that
100 years later, those books would be digitized (huh?) and
distributed on the internet (the what?) for citizen scientists
to record for a noble purpose. Universe Today puts it this way:
The project is designed to provide a detailed map of the world’s
climate around 100 years ago, which will help tell us more about
the climate today. Anyone can take part, read the logs, follow
events aboard the vessels and contribute to this fun and
historical project, which could tell us more about our climate’s
future. How can old data help us see into the future? We asked
Academy researcher Peter Roopnarine. One method of verification
is to apply the models to reconstructions of past climate. That
only works, of course, if we have actual climate measures of the
past. We've ke