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illconsidered | July 14, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 45
Table of Contents
Chapter 47
Chapter 46
Boo-Boo, August 26, 2056
I found myself becoming quite anthropological watching Anna learn to walk and talk over the summer. She is a curious and rambunctious child who is always getting into things we thought out of reach. If it isn't pots and pans, it is the media padd, old shoes -- you name it -- any damned thing we inadvertently leave open. I walked into the kitchen one day and Anna was sitting in the middle of the floor chewing on a mud-covered carrot she had pulled from a pile on the counter. The dirt…
illconsidered | July 8, 2013This 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
July 7, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, WMO, Steinacher, CO2 Fertilization, Desertec, Rabobank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols
Paleoclimate, ENSO, Biosphere, Extinctions,…
illconsidered | July 4, 2013This 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
June 30, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Montreal Protocol, Indian Monsoon, Obama's Plan, Sumatran Smog
Bottom Line, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs,…
gregladen | June 27, 2013Here, David Letterman interviews the man who spent two years in prison for trying to sand in the way of the Bush administration's attempt to sell off your future.
More here.
illconsidered | June 24, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Mid-Summer's Day Edition
June 23, 2013
Chuckles, Solstice, COP19+, Post-G8, UK Meeting, Indian Monsoon
Sumatran Smog, European Flood, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Arctic Birds, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, Temperatures
GHGs, Aerosols, Clouds,…
gregladen | June 23, 2013On Tuesday, President Obama will make a speech outlining his administration’s plans to address climate change. The Right Wing has already responded by calling those concerned with climate change “Terrorists.” How have the progressive and left wings responded? Badly. Very badly. Here is a selection, some paraphrased to ensure anonymity (though these are all public), of comments by people that I know are well meaning climate change activists or otherwise concerned about global warming and such.
Obama’s speeches and verbal plans make no difference. It’s what he DOES that counts.
He’ll say: “…
illconsidered | June 17, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
June 16, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bonn, Xi-Obama, G8, IEA, EIA, Europe Flood, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather,…
illconsidered | June 10, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
June 9, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bonn, WED, WOD, European Floods, Patriot, CO2 Fertilization
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Warnings, Lu, Weathermen
Fukushima: Note, News, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
pgleick | June 10, 2013There is a long history of conflicts over water – the Pacific Institute maintains an online, searchable chronology of such conflicts going back 5,000 years. There were dozens of new examples in 2012, in countries from Latin America to Africa to Asia. (A full update for 2012 has been posted.) Access to water and the control of water systems have been causes of conflict, weapons have been used during conflicts, and water systems have been the targets of conflict.
One especially disturbing example of a major conflict, with complicated but direct connections to water, has developed over the past…
gregladen | June 6, 2013A paper came out in today’s Nature about glacial melting and its contribution to sea level rise. This paper does not present new research, but rather summarizes and evaluates the last several years of research on modeling and measuring contiental glaciers and their dynamics.
From the Abstract:
Since the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, new observations of ice-sheet mass balance and improved computer simulations of ice-sheet response to continuing climate change have been published. Whereas Greenland is losing ice mass at an increasing pace, current…
pgleick | June 6, 2013One day, sometime around the middle of this century, during the lifetime of people now alive, the population of the planet will be smaller than it was the day before. Global population growth is slowing, will level off, and one remarkable day, decline.
This day will mark the dividing line – the definitive transition – between a world dominated by the concept of exponential, inexorable growth to one that has the opportunity to come to grips with true long-term global sustainability.
Ever since the dawn of humanity, the population of the planet has been growing (ok, some quibblers may point out…
gregladen | June 4, 2013Global Warming is the increase in the Earth's temperature owing to the greenhouse effects of the release of CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere, mainly by humans burning fossil fuel, but also by the release of Methane from oil wells and melting of Arctic permafrost, natural gas from leaky pipes, and so on. This increase in temperature occurs in both the atmosphere and the oceans, as well as the land surface itself. During some periods of time most of the increase seems to happen in the atmosphere, while during other times it seems to occur more in the oceans. (As an aside: when you…
illconsidered | June 3, 2013Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
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June 2, 2013
Chuckles, Roll Cloud, COP19+, Black Carbon, WIN, Patriot, Bodman
Otto, Cook et al, Aurornis, Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | May 28, 2013This 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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Chronicling a new Age of Consequences
May 26, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, GWSP, State of Nature, MAHB, Moore EF5, Otto
Consensus , Warnings, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Research Station, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures,…
milhayser | May 24, 2013The threshold of 400 carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of Earth's atmosphere is an arbitrary but still significant milestone, reflecting a near 50% increase in the concentration of the greenhouse gas since humanity first started burning fossil fuels for industry. Sure, the Earth has experienced hotter chemistry before, but Peter Gleick says it all the in the title of his post: The Last Time Atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million Humans Didn’t Exist. The Arctic was also free of ice, and CO2 levels were changing 1000 times slower than they are today. Not that we can't survive…
illconsidered | May 20, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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May 19, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Arctic Council, Consensus, Warren
400 ppmv, Ventus Project, Red List, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate…
gregladen | May 15, 2013You've gotta love South Minneapolis.
My friend Sharon Sund passed me an email this morning about an Organizing for Action meeting in South Minneapolis to discuss climate change activism. Sharon and I had been talking about local climate change activism earlier in the week so she thought I'd liked to go to this meeting and see what they are up to.
Organizing for Action(OFA) is an offshoot of the Obama campaign, a grassroots non profit that is separate from any campaign committee (so they don't support or run candidates) that organizes in favor of Obama's issues like getting some sensible gun…
illconsidered | May 14, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
May 12, 2013
Chuckles, Beauty, COP19+, G8, Red Lists, 400 ppmv
Lake El'gygytgyn, CCAC, Unburnable , Pricing Nature, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Arctic Fox, Methane, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather…
pgleick | May 10, 2013The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per million. Before humans started burning fossil fuels, they were around 280 parts per million.
Mauna Loa measurements of carbon dioxide. From http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.
Global average temperatures were 3 to 4 degrees C warmer…
pgleick | May 10, 2013The Colorado River, recently named America’s most endangered river, supports millions of people in the American Southwest and northwest Mexico and helps irrigate millions of acres of land. It is shared by seven states in the U.S. and Mexico, through a complex series of legal agreements and treaties.
Yet every drop of water on the river is accounted for, used, reused, and transpired away, and today, no water reaches the Colorado River delta in an average year. Quite simply, demands on the river exceed the river’s average supply, and this problem is projected to get worse as populations…