"culled data from various climate research organizations to get projection data of what different climates might look.."
Both definitions bring questions.
Definition of cull.
1. "remove somebody or something as worthless: to remove an inferior person or thing from a group"
2. "select somebody or something: to select or gather people or things, especially those that are good examples of their kind" Also see cherry picked.
Mapping tool models climate change in California
October 27, 2011 | Length: 00:03:03
At UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility software developers are building a Web-based mapping tool to help scientists prepare for the changing climate conditions in California. The team has culled data from various climate research organizations to get projection data of what different climates might look like over a 150-year period. SmartPlanet visits the lab to see a demo of how the tool works.
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29th Oct 2011
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Interesting story but crappy reporting
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Hmmm. Interesting.
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28th Oct 2011
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1 : to select from a group
They culled, not to pick data that matched their expectations, as you've implied, but to get relevant data for the project, leaving out related or unrelated, but irrelevant data. Example: A paper on a rare frog discovery, irrelevant, so left out.
They culled, not to pick data that matched their expectations, as you've implied, but to get relevant data for the project, leaving out related or unrelated, but irrelevant data. Example: A paper on a rare frog discovery, irrelevant, so left out.
Posted by kevinrs1
29th Oct 2011
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Yeah the reporter/narrator obviously needs to look up the word "culled". Also she should make up her mind whether 97% of publishing climate scientists are right about global warming, or if the 2% left in the fossil fuel fan club are right after all. Ffs! Perhaps she could read Merchants of Doubt for a few hints.
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2nd Nov 2011
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���>> Simmy Doss: Whether you believe climate change is manmade or a natural phenomenon, one fact is hard to dispute: Over the last 150 years, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been increasing at an alarming rate. At UC Berkeley, in the school's Geospatial Innovation Facility, software developers are building a web-based mapping tool to help city planners and scientists prepare for the changing climate conditions in California.
>> Kevin Koy: It is a online resource that allows people to visualize climate change data across the state of California.
>> Simmy Doss: Kevin Koy is a manager with the geospatial lab. His team has gathered data from various climate research organizations to get projection data of what different climates might look like in terms of temperature, snowpack, and rainfall over a roughly 150-year period, they targeted 1950 to 2090. They also developed a low-carbon emissions scenario, and a high-carbon emissions scenario, which measure the amount of greenhouse gases they foresee entering the atmosphere.
>> Kevin Koy: Nobody really knows exactly what the future looks like in terms of our economies and population and lots of different factors, so the models have been developed in order to accommodate what different scenarios might look like in the future.
>> Simmy Doss: Sarah Van Wart and Brian Galey are the two web developers who created the software. Here's how it works: Go into the tool and pick a region. Move the slider and see how the region's climate has changed and will change. There are also bar graphs to inaudible the data. Van Wart showed us the Redlands, near east Los Angeles.
>> Sarah Van Wart: What you can see is, this graph right here represents how temperature might change in the Redlands area. So this square right here represents a 12-kilometer grid cell. And you can see, in 1950, the temperature for the high-emission scenario was estimated at 62 degrees, and in 2099 it's at 71 degrees, so it's almost a 10-degree change over time.
>> Simmy Doss: The geospatial innovation lab is not offering its opinions about climate science. They say it's not their job. Instead, they want to make the data available for others to draw their own conclusions.
>> Kevin Koy: There are lots of different aspects to climate change that can affect different areas around the state, and so there's an interest in making sure that the people who are in charge of planning for their cities and their parks and their different areas have the most recent data available to them.
>> Simmy Doss: If you want to check out the tool, it's available to the general public for free. Just go to caladapt.org. For Smart Planet, I'm Simmy Doss.