To be fair to Obama, the economic problems are not his and another poll out today shows that Americans understand that point. Where Americans are uncomfortable is the Detroit bailout and the increasing budget deficit. On the deficit, Obama has not done a great job talking this point through with Americans so far. During the Reagan recession, it took a year and a half to see positive movement and the economy - especially the US economy - does not turn on a dime. The Republicans have definitely out maneuvered Democrats on this subject who have failed to talk openly and confidently about this needing time. Fixing years of mismanagement doesn't happen in a day.

The Obama health care reform is also struggling with support and again, the Democrats have failed to provide a very clear message. Americans understand the system is not working Democrats have not properly made the case yet. It doesn't help that they are moving in every direction including their bipartisan rubbish that again, is not offering real change. They are allowing Republicans and the insurance industry to control the dialog instead of talking about facts. Somehow Obama and the Democrats fail to see the election results from November when voters demanded change and want action.

    A substantial majority of Americans say President Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, which also found that support for his plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, falls well below his job approval ratings.

Earthquakes are not the only thing that can shake Silicon Valley. After the dot-com bubble burst back in 2000 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara county went up to 9.1%. During the last couple of months, it has gone up again:

We just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. So for example, when comparing Santa Clara county data to the national unemployment rate, it becomes clear not only that Santa Clara's peak during 2002-2003 was really dramatic, but also that the recent increase is a bit more drastic than the national rate:

If you go to Google.com and type in [unemployment rate] or [population] followed by a U.S. state or county, you will see the most recent estimates:

Once you click the link, you'll go to an interactive chart that lets you add and remove data for different geographical areas.

Here's a video showing how it works:

The data we're including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers' salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we've used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division. They did the hard work! We just made the data a bit easier to find and use.

The weather stations are mounted on mobile phone towers

Gaping gaps in weather and climate data across Africa may be filled by a partnership between humanitarian groups and mobile phone companies.

The project aims to deploy 5,000 automatic weather stations across the continent mounted on phone masts.

They will gather data on aspects of weather such as rainfall and wind, and send it to national weather agencies.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan says the project could help save lives of people on “the frontlines of climate change”.

“The world’s poorest are also the world’s most vulnerable when it comes to the impact of climate change, and the least equipped to deal with its consequences,” he said.

“Today you find cell phone towers in almost every part of Africa. We have never been able to establish weather monitoring on that scale, until now.”

Mr Annan now serves as president of the Global Humanitarian Forum, which is formally launching the programme, named Weather Info for All, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction meeting in Geneva.

Global conversation

More than 70% of Africans make a living from farming, and the vast majority of the continent’s agriculture is rain-fed, making it highly vulnerable to variability in weather and climate.

Yet report after report has concluded that weather data – needed to make accurate projections of climate change – is in woefully short supply.

Africa has less than 200 weather stations meeting World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standards. Europe, by comparison, has several thousand.

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