illconsidered | August 15, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 0
Table of Contents
Chapter 2
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 1
The Burning Lake, May 11, 2055
I don't know what Matt said to dad, but whatever it was, it didn't take long. I had a quick shower downstairs and changed clothes, thinking to head back to university. By the time I got back upstairs, Jon had arrived. He had been in the Arctic doing community outreach work for a mining company and now he was in the kitchen talking to dad. For a second I stood at the top of the stairs watching them.
Jon looked incredibly straight --- like an advertisement for the chamber of…
illconsidered | August 13, 2012This 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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Chuckles, Rio+20, COP18+, 2 Degrees, Elgin, BEST, Truthiness
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Greenland, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
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Historical…
illconsidered | August 9, 2012More melt excitement in the arctic. An unprecedented summer cyclone in the arctic has clobbered sea ice already tracking at record daily low area (58 days in a row now) and near record daily low extent measurements. As always, the go-to place for sea ice watching and discussion is Neven's:
Arctic storm part 3: detachment - Arctic Sea Ice.
Yes, the storm is weather, but it is unprecedented weather. It is hitting the ice during a pronounced, long term and accelerating downward trend. Though Wattsians will excuse any new records as the result of weather, what we are seeing is unquestionably…
illconsidered | August 8, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 0
Edie, May 11, 2055
I hate it when I find myself doing something and I don't know why. Somehow that seems to happen a lot around my brother, Matt. This time he wanted me to accompany him on a visit to his fiancee, Adelle. I didn't know why and frankly, I didn't really care at the time. My other brother Jon was supposed to be arriving back from the North today, but Matt's invitation gave me a chance to ride in his new car. Usually I get around on bike and foot, so the Faraday was a treat.
Adelle lived on the far side of…
illconsidered | August 8, 2012
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
My thanks go to Marlene for listening and to Kaeren and Rick
at the Sal's for their many helpful comments.ISBN: 978-0-9881321-0-8
Copyright(2012) by H.E. Taylor
Table of Contents
Chapter
Title
Date
Page
0
Edie
May 11, 2055
5
1
The Burning Lake
May 11, 2055
9
2
Externalities
May 11, 2055
13
3
Electronic Democracy
May 11, 2055
17
4
Matt
May 18. 2055
23
5
FabNet
May 18, 2055
27
6
The Great Hunger
May 19, 2055
30
7
Teaser
June 4, 2055
35
8
Jacy
June 7, 2055
38
9
Henry
June 10, 2055
40
10
Robert Fontaine
July 18, 2055
52
11
The Funeral
July 23, 2055…
illconsidered | August 8, 2012As regulars are well aware, much (some periods, all!) of the content here is not produced by me, but by H. E. Taylor (het) in the form of the weekly global warming news roundup. Well, we are in for some more regular content in the form of his latest novel, The Bottleneck Years. The text below introduces this endeavor and will be immediately followed by the table of contents and chapter 0.
I thank him for allowing his work to be reproduced here!
Fair Warning
Recently I had a nightmare in which I was a graphic artist about to put on a show. I was wandering through the small half…
illconsidered | August 6, 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 of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomAugust 5, 2012 Chuckles, COP18, Blackout, Ballantyne, BEST, GCF, Banks, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Grolar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | August 1, 2012Via email, you might like to have a look at this video from CollegeHumour, a "what if" look at an alternative Lorax raised on Fox News propoganda:
CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
illconsidered | July 31, 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 of Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJuly 29, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, First Stewards, C&CAI, Anderson, BEST Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | July 27, 2012The UCS is having a cartoon contest, go here to vote for your favorite. Please feel free to vote for any of my favorites, below ;-)
(This last one is confirmed by many of the past discussions around here!)
illconsidered | July 27, 2012Some interesting goings-on in the cryosphere these days.
In this chart (click the link for an interactive, larger resolution version) from the cryosphere today we can see that we are on the 45th day in a row of daily record lows in sea ice area.
Note that this is area which is different from extent. Area refers to the actual ice cover, I am not sure of the details of how that is defined in practice, whereas extent refers to any ocean surface that contains 15% or more ice cover. Again, there will be technical details I am not familiar with for determining the edges of extent (e.g. grid size…
illconsidered | July 26, 2012skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis 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 roundup Sipping from the Internet Firehose...July 22, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, Iron, Penguins, Yes Men, Status, Hilfiker, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Petermann, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Jet Streams,…
illconsidered | July 20, 2012Hopping down the bunny trail comes the (not) surprising news that law enforcement investigating the CRU email scandal (aka Climategate, aka Swifthack) have concluded that the email servers were hacked and this is not the imagined whistle blower the WUWT and Curry crowd like to pretend. Though they can not identify the perp, they do conclude that:
“However, as a result of our enquiries, we can say that the data breach was the result of a sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack on the CRU’s data files, carried out remotely via the internet. The offenders used methods common in unlawful…
illconsidered | July 20, 2012This is not my opinion! But forget about damning with faint praise, given the source this is damning with high praise.
Obama’s negotiator, Todd Stern, will be here today. They have kept the exact same principles and negotiating stance as President George Bush did for eight years. Obama has carried on Bush’s legacy. So, as skeptics, we tip our hat to President Obama in helping crush and continue to defeat the United Nations process. Obama has been a great friend of global warming skeptics at these conferences. Obama has problems, you know, for us, because he’s going through the EPA regulatory…
illconsidered | July 18, 2012"Show me the code!" This is the rallying cry of climate "skeptics" everywhere and the foundation of the numerous climate conspiracy insinuations hurled around the blogosphere.
Well, apparently what is good for the goose, the infamous Hockeystick, is not so good for the gander, the Wegman Report.
Please see John Mashey's article on Desmog Blog.
Where is the code promised to Waxman almost 6 years ago? Dr. Mann's code was written for a research paper in 1999. Wegman's was used for a high-profile Congressional report widely publicized by Reps. Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield, announced in the Wall…
illconsidered | July 16, 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 of Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 15, 2012 Chuckles, Post-Rio+20, COP18+, Resource 2012, ICRS, SOTC, Penguins, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labels, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Jet…
illconsidered | July 10, 2012Just a quick note to say that the Science Blogs move to NGeo has changed the RSS feed so any AFTIC subscribers who want to keep following the rare posting of mine and/or het's weekly news round-up should resubscribe using the links to the right -->
(Yes, that notice is more than a month overdue and probably obvious by now, but better late than never, right? I mean if we did not believe in "better late than never" we would not still be agitating for climate change mitigation, would we?)
illconsidered | July 9, 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 of Anthropocene Antics Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJuly 8, 2012 Chuckles, Post Rio+20, Derecho, Power Failure, Heatwave, Colorado, Bottom Line, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Kurokawa, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | July 3, 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 of Anthropocene Antics Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJuly 1, 2012 Chuckles, Post-Rio+20, ATBC, Derecho, Colorado Subsidies, World Bank, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols Paleoclimate,…
illconsidered | June 29, 2012Michael Tobis has an excellent piece up at Planet3.0 here:
A Thousand Bastrops | Planet3.0.