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illconsidered | May 6, 2013 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 Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMay 5, 2013 Chuckles, May Day, COP19+, MDGs, Unburnable, PAGES2k, Bottom Line, CookFukushima: Note, NewsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Greece, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Production Melting Arctic, Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, GHGs, Temperatures Feedbacks, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, Solar, Extinctions, Bees & CCD,…
sastyk | May 6, 2013From the Guardian:
New research suggests that the Arctic summer sea ice loss is linked to extreme weather. Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francispoints to the phenomenon of "Arctic amplification", where:
"The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the jet stream over North America, Europe, and Russia. Scientists are now just beginning to understand how these profound shifts may be increasing the likelihood of more persistent and extreme weather."
Extreme weather events over the last few years apparently driven by the accelerating…
illconsidered | April 30, 2013Here are a couple of great animations of the arctic sea ice volume over the satellite era.
(credit to Andy Lee Robinson, seen at Planet3)
While this is not news, I think the animations make two things very clear. One, is that anyone even giving the time of day to the notion that there is "nothing going on here, folks" when it comes to the arctic is in full-on head-in-the-sand denial or is a cynical liar. Two, is that contrary to the shrill shills who claim the IPCC et al are alarmists at best, exaggerating/misrepresenting the impacts of climate change at worst, the scientific consensus is…
illconsidered | April 29, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
April 28, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, PAGES2k, Ocean Heat, Earth Day, Unburnable
Subsidies, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Monsoon, Notable Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols
Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | April 22, 2013(featured image is the effect of Australia's summer heatwave on Melbourne's historical record, source)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
April 21, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, UNFF10, Unburnable, EU-ETS, Earth Day, Warnings, Externalities
Subsidies, World Bank, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook, Prizes
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food…
illconsidered | April 22, 2013(these are of course NA dates)
Event Title: Do the Math ... If you Love this Planet// Earth Night Gathering
Venue: Country Park {Mobile Home} Community Clubhouse
Location: Clearwater, FL
Start Time: Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM
You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/4678/signup/?t=2&akid=3034.683317.zTETWN
Event Title: "Do the Math" sustainability tour movie at Eckerd College.
Venue: Eckerd College Campus at Fox Hall
Location: St Petersburg, FL, FL
Start Time: Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM
You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/3975…
sastyk | April 22, 2013From the Japan Times:
Former Irish President Mary Robinson’s foundation for climate justice is hosting a major conference in Dublin this week. Research presented there said that rising incomes and growth in the global population, expected to create 2 billion more mouths to feed by 2050, will drive food prices higher by 40 to 50 percent.
“We must prepare today for higher temperatures in all sectors,” said Gerald Nelson, a senior economist with the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
All of the studies suggest the worst impacts will be felt by the poorest…
illconsidered | April 15, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
April 14, 2013
Chuckles, UNFF10, GCF-DC, EGU, G8, Marcott, Warnings
Subsidies, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New…
illconsidered | April 15, 2013Via Planet3.0 I see there is a declaration of the need, and competitive advantage it would bring, for action on climate change signed by a not insignificant number of major (non-fossil fuel) corporations. As Michael Tobis points out, it is, rather strangely, presented as an image only.
So my contribution is running it through an OCR tool, formatting and presenting it below:
Tackling climate change is one of America's greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century
(and it's simply the right thing to do)
What made America great was taking a stand. Doing the things that are hard. And…
pgleick | April 10, 2013On April 2nd, I posted three iconic graphs showing some of the clear observational evidence that we’re changing the climate. That post produced a substantial, and largely thoughtful response, and a request for more information and data along these lines.
Here are three more, along with a bonus fourth, all with a theme of exponential growth – the powerful force that is behind much of the concern about climate change and many other environmental and social challenges. Figures like these are increasingly called “hockey stick” curves, after the work of Professor Michael Mann and others in the…
illconsidered | April 8, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
April 7, 2013
Chuckles, Fools, COP19+, MDGs, Critical Decade, Bintanja, Marcott, Warnings
Subsidies, World Bank, WTO, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Temperatures…
tfk | April 5, 2013In the poll on conspiracy theories I mentioned a few days ago, I mostly focused on the item about vaccines, mentioning in passing the fact that Democrats (and liberals) bought into far fewer conspiracy theories than Republicans (or conservatives). I didn't point out that, of the "conspiracy theories" Democrats were more likely to accept, several require a rather fine parsing to register as conspiracy theories (rather than simply an over-broad but accurate account of history).
For instance, the PPP poll asked whether "the CIA was instrumental in distributing crack cocaine into America’s inner…
tfk | April 3, 2013Ever since Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science was published in 2005, folks have been looking for a way to argue that Democrats are just as bad. The standard example for this counternarrative, one which Mooney even offered in his book, was vaccine denial – the claim that vaccines cause autism or are otherwise dangerous.
Intuitively, this seems right. The folks and venues touting antivaxx conspiracy theories tended to be New Agey outlets, and the places facing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases tended to be liberal strongholds, like Boulder, CO or Marin County, CA. That must mean…
pgleick | April 2, 2013Here are three iconic graphs (unfortunately, there are many, many more) showing just some of the clear observational evidence that we're changing the climate.
The first is the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, measured at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. It shows the little ups and downs in concentration that varies with the seasons, but also the inexorable rise in this powerful greenhouse gas. There are now thousands of stations measuring these gases.
The second is the deviation from global average temperatures over the past 130 years. It also shows the natural variability (…
illconsidered | April 1, 2013 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose...March 31, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, North Korea, WSF, PES, Sensitivity Missing Heat, Marcott, Warnings, Subsidies, HSBC, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
tfk | April 1, 2013The University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Social Movements is hosting a dialogue on science and politics, and I'm rather pleased with my contribution: "Will Climate Change Denial Inherit the Wind?" Do check out the other essays in the dialogue, especially Jeffrey Guhin's discussion of some results from his observations of creationist Muslim and evangelical Christian schools in New York, and Kelly Moore's debunking of 5 myths about science and politics.
I've been noodling around with the ideas in my essay for a while, ever since reading Michael Lienesch's In the Beginning, which…
illconsidered | March 26, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Chaos News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
March 24, 2013
Chuckles, Equinox, COP19+, WWD, Earth Hour, Marcott, Grinsted
World Bank, Cook, Weathermen
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather…
pgleick | March 21, 2013Some thoughts for today: the bad news and good news for World Water Day. [First, I think every day should be World Water Day, not just March 22nd, but hey, that’s just me.]
Stop taking your tap water for granted. Go to your tap, draw a glass of water, and drink it. Then remember that nearly a billion people still do not have reliable access to safe, affordable tap water and cannot do what you've just done.
Stop taking your toilet for granted. Nearly 2.5 billion people (more people than lived on the planet in the 1930s) don’t have safe sanitation.
Do you know anyone who had cholera, or typhoid…
pgleick | March 21, 2013Nearly two years ago, Science magazine published the following Lead Letter, signed by 255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences addressing attacks on the integrity of climate science. The science has continued to strengthen, the evidence in real world observations has become even stronger and more obvious.
In response, in the past few months, there has been a last-gasp effort (see, for example, here and here) on the part of the ever-shrinking group of hard-core climate deniers to confuse the public and especially our elected officials. Given this continuing profusion of false and…
illconsidered | March 18, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 17, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, JOGMEC, Marcott
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Anniversary, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes,…