illconsidered | January 1, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 30, 2012
Chuckles, Seasonal, COP19+, Bromwich, Arctic Cyclone, Retrospectives
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Suing TEPCO, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 28, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 19
Table of Contents
Chapter 21
Chapter 20
An Awkward Homecoming, November 17, 2055
Adelle was right. I did have difficulty getting back through Customs. The time stretched on. After five hours, an iris scan and multiple DNA tests, not to mention extensive questioning by airport security, Border Control and ConSec, I was released.
Olivia was waiting for me. She was sitting in the lounge reading the news on a padd facing away from me. I walked up beside and behind her and nuzzled her neck.
She spun around and gave me a big kiss. "I thought they were…
illconsidered | December 26, 2012I first saw this video at Planet 3.0 a fair while ago and have seen it posted again since. I find it very uplifting despite being a jaded climate blogger of many years. There are many other science-based music videos at www.symphonyofscience.com and I have listened/watch most (all?) of them, but this is the best as well as being on topic here.
I think it is just about the perfect mix of the various elements of outreach needed to motivate the general public: explanation, urgency and optimism.
illconsidered | December 25, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
December 23 2012
Chuckles, Bouquet, Solstice, COP19+, Post-Doha, Hargreaves, Retrospectives
AR5 Leak, Subsidies, WB, Thermodynamics, Cook, TV Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries,…
illconsidered | December 25, 2012Negative brownie points to anyone who feels it necessary to point out that penguins and polar bears do not cross paths in the wild! (Oops, I guess that would include me...)
(cartoon courtesy of Alex Hallatt, Creator of Arctic Circle cartoons)
illconsidered | December 20, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 18
Table of Contents
Chapter 20
Chapter 19
Rio Triste, October 22, 2055
Fifteen scientists formed the Mandate group and one staff person, a terrifyingly severe Dutch woman who managed schedules and bills. She never said more than two words to me the whole time I was there. The locals were a mixture of Spanish descendants, blacks and natives in various proportions. Most of them seemed to think we were a bunch of arrogant, ignorant bastards useful only as victims. They paid attention to us only because we had money.
The ecologist literally spent all…
illconsidered | December 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
December 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Post-Doha, Post-AGU, AR5 Leak
1990 Projections, Detectors, Retrospectives, Subsidies, WB, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 13, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 17
Table of Contents
Chapter 19
Chapter 18
Amazon, Sept. 29, 2055
Have you ever wondered what is the logic of your life? Sometimes I feel like a piece of flotsam bouncing on the waves of a river whose depth and currents I cannot fathom, whose path I do not know, whose destination, short of the ocean, is a mystery.
This feeling caught me as I contemplated Olivia. It was equally true of the happy accident that I just happened to notice the odd red-green plant years before when Doc Y and I were on a sampling tour in the B.C. interior. I got my fifteen…
illconsidered | December 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
December 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Doha: Results, Reactions, Process, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies, Irony
AGU, Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook, Weathermen
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…
illconsidered | December 5, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 16
Table of Contents
Chapter 18
Chapter 17
Microbugs, Sept. 25, 2055
A couple of ConSec guys appeared and we climbed back into the paddywagon for the ride home. We didn't talk.
As I entered the kitchen, I was enveloped in a wave of unreality. It all seemed so fantastic. How are you supposed to feel when you are plucked out of your daily life, threatened, spun in the air, examined and then plunked back down to carry on? Olivia and I sat at the kitchen table sipping coffee.
"Can I see it?" She held her hand out. When I gave her Carman's signaller,…
illconsidered | December 4, 2012(The following is posted by het)
I have noticed some comments here about Fukushima and I thought it might be useful to have one post to capture that conversation. So please, have forth here.
I live in the middle of Canada. Fukushima is on the other side of the world. The only information I have about what goes on there is what I get via the media. And therein lies a problem. Basically, who do you trust?
There are the mainstream media who are liable to print almost anything.
There are TEPCO, General Electric and the Japanese government.
There are regulatory agencies NISA, JAEA, IAEA etc.…
illconsidered | December 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 2, 2012
Chuckles, Doha - COP18: Misc., Irony, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies
Grafton, Bednarek, Rahmstorf, Shepherd, Subsidies, WB, Equador, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, IP…
illconsidered | November 29, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 15
Table of Contents
Chapter 17
Chapter 16
Carman, Sept. 25, 2055
Matt had been on the west coast for two months. Jon was in Ottawa with the Senator. I was happy with Olivia. Our life was never dull. Doc Y, as Jim Yablonski was affectionately known around campus, and I were collaborating on a new paper on photosynthesis. Except for dad's death, which was a shock, my life was unfolding more or less as I thought it should.
Then I met Carman.
I had got up early one Saturday morning, as I sometimes do when I'm chewing on a problem. I appreciate the…
illconsidered | November 26, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom November 25, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, Pre-Doha Reports: WRI, AII, EEA, UNEP, WB, PwC, IEA Bottom Line, PDSI-Sheffield, Pricing Nature, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | November 22, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 14
Table of Contents
Chapter 16
Chapter 15
The Great Work, September 7, 2055
In the top centre drawer of the big desk in dad's library, I found an unmarked envelope containing this document.
The Great Work, March 2040
My time is getting short and I don't know what more I can do. I am getting old and I don't have time for bullshit. I don't want for anything. There is no profit -- economic, moral or spiritual -- in recording my thoughts, yet I persist. I have raised the boys as best I could since Joan died. They are good, strong lads. I only wish I…
illconsidered | November 20, 2012Dave Roberts notes the connection between the two right wing reality bubbles of climate change denial and Romney landslide predictions.
But as we saw on Election Day, sometimes reality can come along and snap the spell of wishful thinking. It happened the week before Election Day too. That’s when a super-charged storm slammed into the east coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without homes or power. Sandy brought a heavy dose of reality and served as a kind of exclamation point on a year filled with droughts, wildfires, and floods — the hottest year ever recorded.
According to climatologists…
illconsidered | November 19, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
November 18, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IEA-WEO, Post Sandy, Sheffield, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | November 18, 2012I don't myself visit Watts' blog unless someone points to something particularly funny or egregious, and the comment threads are so long and monotonous it is even rarer that I go there.
That said, I am always grateful to others who have occasion to do that hard work and who come back out to highlight particularly mind-blowing examples of...of... of whatever it is that adequately describes what passes for dialogue over there. So, many thanks to Holly Stick over at Rabett Run who points us to the Gray Monk at WUWT who writes:
Actually the question is whether or not CO2 is the ‘evil game…