illconsidered | March 10, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here.
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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
March 9, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Flood Prediction, Warnings, RS/NAS, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, Production…
illconsidered | March 7, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 81
Table of Contents
Chapter 83
Chapter 82
Rescued, November 20, 2059
The next day, Jon was formally charged by the IEC. they called it ecological crimes against humanity. Suddenly everyone had something to say. The media showed up. There were vloggers and agency stringers waiting for me when I left the university.
I answered a bunch of questions, many of them repetitious and silly. I had just declared, "the next person who asks me how I feel and not what I think will end the scrum," when a new stringer rolled up with half a dozen newseyes and…
illconsidered | March 4, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here.
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 2, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WG2 Leak, WOS, RS/NAS, Jacobson, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | February 28, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 80
Table of Contents
Chapter 82
Chapter 81
Visitation Rights, November 19, 2059
I watched the days tick by, waiting for Wednesday. How would Jon receive me? What would his state of mind be? I was on tenterhooks when I placed the call. I should have known better.
"The prisoner Jon Fontaine can only receive visitation between 1400 and 1500." I was informed by a bored looking official.
It was just after 8 in the morning, and there was a one hour time difference which meant I had another 5 hours to wait. Plus I had a lecture scheduled at 10:00.
I had a…
illconsidered | February 24, 2014This 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 Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionFebruary 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, G20, NAFTA, England et al., Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Crap Detector, CookFukushima: Note, News, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Methane, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Revolt, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Weather: Notable, Wacky, Forecasts, Extreme, New GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, Feedbacks,…
illconsidered | February 20, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 79
Table of Contents
Chapter 81
Chapter 80
Makeba, November 14, 2055
Aretha,
I would like to call your attention to an SRM device of which I have recently been apprised.
The rough theory is in the UNGETF database, keyword Sunbugs. An implementation is to be found in the FabNet archives, same keyword. It requires a Fraunhoeffer chemical synthesizer to which I do not have access, but I believe you do.
It might be a viable replacement for the sunshield.
Trust you are well.
cordially,
Luc Fontaine
Excerpted from _The Bottleneck Years_ by H.E. Taylor
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illconsidered | February 18, 2014Via a blog posting on NPR, below is an excerpt from the recent Academy Award nominated documentary "Chasing Ice" showing highlights of a 75 minute glacier calving event recorded in Greenland.
At the end is a time-lapse sequence of the entire event along with some visuals to put the size in perspective. Really amazing stuff!
While on the subject of metaphors, this is a nice example of processes that are in general very slow moving but when tipping points are reached suddenly and dramatically accelerate. Climate change is such a process, this is rather scary. But so are social and political…
illconsidered | February 18, 2014As most of you know already, England's dramatic sequence of winter storms since December has resulted in its worst winter on record. England's records go back 248 years. (Al Jazeera is reporting 300 years). Who knows if such a series of storms has ever occurred since the climate stabilized after the last glaciation ended some 8000 years ago, this is truly uncharted territory.
The featured image above serves as a very apt and stark metaphor for just what adaption to climate change means. That picture was taken at least ten days ago (I found it here where many other dramatic images can be…
illconsidered | February 18, 2014This 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
February 16, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cr*p Detector, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | February 13, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 78
Table of Contents
Chapter 80
Chapter 79
The Military Industrial Prison Complex, November 14, 2055
What do you do when your brother is locked up for an unconscionable crime and you have good reason to believe he is guilty? You see that he has a good lawyer. I spoke to a friend in the law faculty and got the number of a lawyer in Ottawa who came highly recommended.
Then I tried to contact Jon. The Ottawa police were unhelpful. They didn't have him, they didn't want him and they didn't know where he was. The ecocops, or more properly the Gendarmes…
illconsidered | February 11, 2014This 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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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
February 9, 2014
Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Milankovitch Cycles, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO…
illconsidered | February 11, 2014Via un-climate-related readings, I came across this gem (from the victim article of the link):
My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it is, not as I (or anyone else) thinks it should be. And, I'm far from the only one.
This is from the mouth of one of the Washington Post's political mouthpieces, Chris Cillizza. Readers here will be more than familiar with the fundamental problems with this attitude. I just wanted to note that the…
illconsidered | February 5, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 77
Table of Contents
Chapter 79
Chapter 78
EcoCops, November 13, 2059
The next day the ecocops arrived. Edie and I were having breakfast, when they pulled up in the lane right below our window. Anna, as she liked to say, was "doing lady things" in the bathroom. There were three of them. They were polite. They apologized to Edie, but they wanted to talk to me -- alone.
For the interview they took me downtown to the MacDonald building. We entered through an underground parking lot I hadn't even known existed. They took me up to a seventh floor office…
illconsidered | February 4, 2014Some remarkable weather in North America recently as most of you probably know. Check out Jeff Masters for some of the details.
Record warmth and precipitation in AlaskaAs of January 26, 13.83" of precipitation had fallen in Valdez during the month of January. This is more than 8" above average for this point in the month, and close to the all-time record for January precipitation of 15.18", set in 2001 (records go back to 1972.) With more rain on the way Monday and Tuesday, this record could easily fall. Numerous locations in Southeast Alaska have beaten their rainiest January day on record…
illconsidered | February 3, 2014This 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 Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February 2, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, NSA at Copenhagen, Triumvirate, Potash, Warnings
Seeger, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC,…
illconsidered | February 1, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 76
Table of Contents
Chapter 78
Chapter 77
Unburdening, November 12, 2059
I was in a state by the time I arrived at Centre City. I half expected the eco-cops to tap me on the shoulder at any moment.
Edie met me at the door. "I didn't expect you until tomorrow," she said with a big smile. "I just happened to see you walk past the front window."
Then she caught my mood. "What's the matter?"
"Do you know how to upload to FabNet?"
"Yeah... I used to do that for Matt every once in a while."
"Good. I have something I want you to distribute." I opened the…
illconsidered | January 30, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 75
Table of Contents
Chapter 77
Chapter 76
A Better World, November 12, 2059
We settled in the back of a small electric cab. The driver slid open a slot in the plasteel barrier partitioning the passenger area. Peter gave him the UN offices as a destination and then turned to me.
"Right then. Why don't you tell me all about it?"
"Have you looked at the sunbug proposal?"
"Yeah, I glanced at it. It's too bad it's only theoretical."
"I have a practical implementation."
"What! Are you sure?"
"I didn't do the work. My brother Matt did. But here's the…
illconsidered | January 30, 2014The good Lord Monckton, self parody at its absolute finest:
This charming and lively man, with a soul and a wit that are eternal youth personified, is the latest victim of the vicious hate campaign sedulously waged by the canting profiteers of doom against anyone who dares to speak out against the now-discredited notion that the West should be shut down at once so as to Save The Planet from global-warming Thermageddon.
Bowing to extreme pressure from a handful of mad scientists (mad, that is, at the loss of income and prestige that the inexorable collapse of the Great Lie entails), the…
illconsidered | January 27, 2014This 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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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
January 26, 2014
Chuckles, EU Climate Goals, WEF, WFES, POGO, Potash, Smog, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Tele-connections, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Solar,…
illconsidered | January 27, 2014(promotion alert)
I know most readers of this blog are godless scientific types, devoid of spirit and joy, unable to see the beauty in anything beyond a pile of numbers....(um, maybe that's not the start of a great sales pitch, let's try again :)
For all of AFTIC's or ScienceBlog's readers who find beauty not just in an elegant solution to a problem or an intricate model that captures the essence of some natural system, but also in art, nature and the human spirit, I would like to announce a project my brother and my sister-in-law, Aaron and Kristina Beck, are trying to launch. It is a…