illconsidered | May 20, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Nargis, Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Rosenzweig, Nitrogen Cycle, EPICA, McKibben, Late Comments Food Crisis, Task Force, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts Mitigation, Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science, Pielke Kyoto, Kyoto-2…
illconsidered | May 12, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Nargis, Melting Arctic, Antarctica, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, Sea Levels, THC, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science, Schwartz, Pielke, Connolley Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Optimal…
illconsidered | May 5, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Keenlyside, Dead Zones Melting Arctic, Antarctica, Stern, CH4 Rising, Late Comments Global Food Crisis Hurricanes, Nargis, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Tropical Rainforests, Corals, Wacky Weather Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration,…
illconsidered | April 30, 2008Michael Tobis is always worth reading, but he has a particularily well done essay up on Gristmill about some of the deeper implications and causes of the current global food crisis.
Visit his post about it here, and after bookmarking his site, click through to the Gristmill article he has linked.
I think he dismisses too much the importance of biofuel demand in the current equation, but that is a minor disagreement. He correctly identifies the real problem as one of food distribution being governed by financial mechanisms only, and the lamentable lack of any other metric aside from ability…
illconsidered | April 29, 2008From DemocracyNow!, specifcally this story, we get the charmingly humble statement from Justice Antonin Scalia I used as this post's title.
What is his view? Torture is not punishment so it is not actually prohibited by the US constitution's eigth ammendment, forbidding the infliction of "cruel and unusual punishment".
It is fascinating and alarming to see the intellectual gymnastics amoral people go through to deny plain and simple reality. Watch the clip here (requires RealPlayer) or go to Democracy Now's April 29th broadcast, around minute 12.
And by the way, the answer to his question "…
illconsidered | April 29, 2008So most of us have probably seen them before, animations of flight patterns spreading across North America and the globe, but I thought this one was particularily satisfying in its production:
Try not to think of all the carbon emissions associated with all that flying!
illconsidered | April 28, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Methane, Forests Sink to Source, Sulphate Geoengineering Melting Arctic, Seabed Claims, Antarctica, Saving the Earth, Late Comments A Note on the Food Crisis, Food Crisis Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration,…
illconsidered | April 23, 2008So, why do we want genetically modified crops? I thought it was supposed to be part of a new Green Revolution.
Apparently not...
Via CommonDreams, it seems that another major study has found that GM crops are actually worse in terms of total production than conventional crops.
So, besides ensuring global dependence on patented genomes, special pesticides and corporations like Monsanto...what is the point?
(What's that? That is the point...? I'm so naive)
[--original article from the Independent here--]
illconsidered | April 22, 2008Okay, this has nothing to do with climate change, but it really had me on the edge of my seat and is a must view video!
Living vicariously endeed...
illconsidered | April 21, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Food Crisis, Do Nothing Speech, Paris Greenland, Ward Hunt, Antarctic Salinity, Stern, EGU, Jet Streams, Vulcan Hurricanes, Emanuel, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Plankton, Forests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen Kyoto,…
illconsidered | April 15, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Food Crisis, Melting Arctic, Vulcan & Hestia, Huaynaputina, Late Coverage Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, Paleoclimate Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen Kyoto-2, Fifth IPCC Report, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction…
illconsidered | April 7, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Bangkok UNFCCC Conference, BC Cap & Trade, Otway, Food Panik Melting Arctic, Pielke & Co., GCMs, No Link, IMF, World Bank, Short Takes & Late Comments GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration,…
illconsidered | March 31, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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 Top Stories:Wilkins Ice Sheet, Melting Arctic, Earth Hour, Soot, Poll, Solar Cycle 23/24, Late Comments Hurricanes, Keeling Curve, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts: Forests, Corals, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science, Pielke, Hansen Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax,…
illconsidered | March 24, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:WGMS Report, X-Prize, Opportunity Cost Melting Arctic, Arctic Oil & Gas Claim, Earth Hour, PCA, ECO:nomics, G20 Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Miscellaneous Science, Hansen Kyoto, Carbon…
illconsidered | March 17, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:WGMS Report, G20 Meeting, Criminal, Eco:nomics Conference Arctic Conflict, Antarctica, Chinese CO2, Gulf Stream, La Nina Winter, Zero Emissions, Earth Hour Hurricanes, Temperature Record, Sea Levels, ENSO Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Transportation, Buildings, NAFTA CEC Report, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science…
illconsidered | March 14, 2008One of the favories squeals of the climate change denialists is that proponents of action to slow the current global warming are "alarmists", exagerating threats and mongering fear to push past rational debate. I have always found this a bit ironic considering the economic doomsday that they asure us will arise if we dare burn one drop of gasoline less than our slightest whims would require.
So this piece from a usually far left blog is especially amusing, and also demonstrates another fundamental law of The Blogosphere: a wingnut is a wingnut, whether you twist to the right or twist to the…
illconsidered | March 10, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:OECD Environmental Outlook, Burning Tundra, Particulates Melting Arctic, Potential Arctic Conflict, Antarctica, Earth Hour Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science, Seitz Obit. Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction…
illconsidered | March 3, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:Connaughton's Deke, Svalbard, Wheat Panik, Arctic, Antarctica, Fergus' Survey, Aerial Bacteria, La Nina Winter Hurricanes, GHGs, Glaciers, THC Impacts, US Dust, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science, Genetic Engineering Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal…
illconsidered | February 25, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...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(skip to bottom) Top Stories:BC's Carbon Tax, Garnaut Report, Solar Cities, Global Cooling Disputed Greenland, WAIS, AAAS, Permafrost, PCA, Earth Hour, CCR, Investor's Summit, ZIFs Hurricanes, Paleoclimate, DSCOVR Impacts, Central Asia, Forests, Corals, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Mitigation, Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Carbon Trade…
illconsidered | February 19, 2008I know I am a bit late on this one, but CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks" had a very interesting segment on geothermal energy February 2. You can listen to the segment directly here.
The page for that day's show is here, where you can read the following teaser and find links to related material:
We're familiar with geothermal energy from mountain hot springs, geysers like Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park, and perhaps from the way Iceland has developed an entire energy system based on volcanic-heated water. However, geothermal energy is still just a niche player in the global energy picture.…