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Description: A script which posts data on CO2 concentrations to Twitter
Homepage: http://twitter.com/co2updates
Clone URL: git://github.com/Floppy/co2updates.git
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CO2 Updates
http://github.com/Floppy/co2updates
 
Author: James Smith
Email : james@floppy.org.uk
Web   : http://www.floppy.org.uk
 
REQUIREMENTS
============
 
Ruby 1.8 (not tested with 1.9 yet)
'twitter' gem (http://twitter.rubyforge.org/)
 
USAGE
=====
 
To use the software, firstly copy config/config_example.yml to config/config.yml.
 
To enable twittering, uncomment the twitter lines and and enter your details. 
 
Once it's configured, run lib/co2_updates.rb, and you're away!
 
DATA
====
 
The NOAA data source specified in the default config_example.yml is global mean
CO2 concentration data from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#global
 
Application state is saved into data/state.yml. The latest year and month from
the datafile is stored, and checked against the datafile on each run. If the 
latest date has not changed, updates are not sent out.