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November 14, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 13
Table of Contents
Chapter 15
Chapter 14
The Clone Document, September 7, 2055
I was in the University library when a short innocuous looking fellow approached my carousel.
"Are you Luc Pascal Fontaine, son of the late Robert Fontaine?"
I looked at him…
November 12, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
November 11, 2012
Chuckles,…
November 8, 2012
Via Thngsbreak, we have the charming Lord Monckton back at it with all out Birtherism:
The diligent, unpaid heroes who have been investigating the dodgy document for more than a year on behalf of the people of Maricopa County, Ariz., have found a long list of irregularities in Mr. Obama’s…
November 7, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 12
Table of Contents
Chapter 14
Chapter 13
Olivia, August 30, 2055
All of a sudden I had a whole lot of woman on my hands. It was a whole new ballgame. Olivia was smart, sexy and a lot of fun. I stayed at her suite the first night and the next we spent at…
November 6, 2012
Climate Crocks has a new video out about Sandy and the unusual weather patterns that allowed its formation.
Good stuff!
All the pundit chatter and the Bloomberg news coming out on the side of reality does give one hope that from the ashes of Battery Point climate change mitigation policy might…
November 6, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
November 4, 2012
Chuckles…
November 1, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 11
Table of Contents
Chapter 13
Chapter 12
The Reception, July 23, 2055
Mom and Dad's old friends, university people, and a gaggle of 32nd cousins chattered and whispered at tables throughout the reception hall. Matt and Jon had disappeared. I was doing…
October 30, 2012
See Wind Map for real time animation. Also, do you notice anything over on the east coast??
(h/t to P3)
October 30, 2012
The reality of weather modification is no conspiracy theory. Or at least, so say the conspiracy theorists....
Hurricane Sandy is being described as the “worst storm in 100 years” and will possibly mutate to super-storm status once it combines with a polar air mass over the eastern United States…
October 29, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
October 28,…
October 29, 2012
As pretty much everyone should be aware already, Hurricane Sandy is getting close to landfall in the New Jersey area where it will collide with a strong winter storm coming down from Canada. It seems no one really knows what will happen, but all the people who should agree it will be very bad. …
October 26, 2012
As you travel the inter-tubes in search of learned discourse, understanding and information to prepare you for the coming climate cataclysms, you will see many curious creatures, some common, some rare, who are here for the sole purpose of deterring, deceiving and confusing you. Some will pray on…
October 24, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 10
Table of Contents
Chapter 12
Chapter 11
The Funeral, July 23, 2055
I don't remember my mother. We had recordings of her singing, that is all. She died when we were young and dad never remarried. He raised us alone. He was a grumpy old ecologist with…
October 24, 2012
So this is an idea shamelessly stolen from Noah Smith, a blogger who writes about economics. He has created an "illustrated bestiary", introduced thusly:
In your journey through the Econ Blogosphere, you will be beset by a great many curious and interesting species of EconoTroll. At first you may…
October 23, 2012
Just thinking about a previous look at Roy Spencer:
We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and…
October 23, 2012
So Mitt Romney believes putting more money in the hands of the job creators (aka rich people) will spur economic growth and so he will cut their taxes by 20%. But he also said in the first debate that he will not reduce the tax burden of the wealthy (aka job creators) at all. So...reduce tax…
October 22, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 21, 2012…
October 18, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 9
Table of Contents
Chapter 11
Chapter 10
Robert Fontaine, July 18, 2055
I was heading for the library when I got a phone call from Bessie Waters, a neighbour who visited with dad occasionally. She was worried. "I knocked on the door and there was no…
October 15, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
October 14, 2012
Wonderment…
October 15, 2012
Here is a pretty awesome video from NASA showing a 3D earth view of global ocean currents as they were from June 2005 to December 2007. It is fascinating to watch the behavior of both large and small features and how they interact. Notable for neighbors of the Atlantic ocean is the Gulf Stream…
October 10, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 8
Table of Contents
Chapter 10
Chapter 9
Henry, June 10, 2055
When Thursday rolled around, I rode my bike over to Fontaine Enterprises on Woodward. I arrived about a quarter to four. Matt and I sat in his office drinking coffee which wasn't ersatz.
The…
October 8, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
October 7, 2012…
October 5, 2012
NCSIDC has it's monthly analysis for September done and as expected, it ain't pretty.
Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2012 was the lowest in the satellite record, and was 16% lower than the previous low for the month, which occurred in 2007. Through 2012, the linear rate of decline for…
October 3, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 7
Table of Contents
Chapter 9
Chapter 8
Jacy, June 7, 2055
I spent a couple of fruitless hours in the laboratory reading the absorption spectra of an extremeophile bacteria, then headed home. After supper, dad went to bed early. I cleaned up and retreated…
October 2, 2012
Peter Sinclair has posted the second of a two part series documenting a trip he took with Mauri Pelto into the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade range of mountains. Below are both part one and two of that series.
October 1, 2012
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September…
September 26, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 6
Table of Contents
Chapter 8
Chapter 7
Teaser, June 4, 2055
A couple of weeks later, I received a curious invitation. It was courier delivered snail mail, a photocopy of a letter of inquiry from some guy to a toy company, which read:
Dear Customer…
September 26, 2012
Inferno is back at it at Denial Depot, and as always it is good for more than a few laughs! I particularily enjoyed this comment he/she added in the thread under the latest post on artic ice:
Although that said, Earth's polar axis of rotation has only been reliably observed during the last 30…