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illconsidered | January 7, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
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Another Week of Global Warming News
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January 6, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Object Lesson, Tasmania, Retrospectives
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Kulluk, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food…
illconsidered | January 1, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 30, 2012
Chuckles, Seasonal, COP19+, Bromwich, Arctic Cyclone, Retrospectives
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Suing TEPCO, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 25, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
December 23 2012
Chuckles, Bouquet, Solstice, COP19+, Post-Doha, Hargreaves, Retrospectives
AR5 Leak, Subsidies, WB, Thermodynamics, Cook, TV Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries,…
illconsidered | December 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
December 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Post-Doha, Post-AGU, AR5 Leak
1990 Projections, Detectors, Retrospectives, Subsidies, WB, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
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December 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Doha: Results, Reactions, Process, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies, Irony
AGU, Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook, Weathermen
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…
milhayser | December 4, 2012A new look at twenty years worth of research shows that polar ice is in fact melting, and raising sea levels, faster than anticipated. Greg Laden writes "Greenland is losing ice about 500% faster now than it was in the early 1990s, while Antarctica is losing ice at about the same rate." Altogether, ice melt since 1992 "has contributed to about 0.44 inches of sea level rise." On Stoat, William M. Connolley says "Still – that adds up to 0.6 mm/yr. So it will have to grow if its to become interesting by 2100." With ice-bound methane poised to mingle with carbon dioxide and accelerate global…
illconsidered | December 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 2, 2012
Chuckles, Doha - COP18: Misc., Irony, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies
Grafton, Bednarek, Rahmstorf, Shepherd, Subsidies, WB, Equador, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, IP…
illconsidered | November 26, 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 in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom November 25, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, Pre-Doha Reports: WRI, AII, EEA, UNEP, WB, PwC, IEA Bottom Line, PDSI-Sheffield, Pricing Nature, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | November 19, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
November 18, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IEA-WEO, Post Sandy, Sheffield, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…
tfk | November 19, 2012After their thrashing in the 2012 elections, Republicans are casting about for a new standardbearer, and Marco Rubio is a leading candidate for that post. One consequence of that attention is this GQ interview with Rubio, which includes this awesome exchange:
GQ: How old do you think the Earth is?
Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says,but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the…
milhayser | November 19, 2012Although the science is getting cold, the conversation about climate change was warmed over by President Obama on Thursday. On Thoughts from Kansas, Josh Rosenau says “This is a welcome change from the complete silence of the last few years, but falls well short of what the American people and the world deserve.” Rosenau argues that with scientific consensus long established, an attempt at policy is overdue. California, the economic canary in a coal mine, just enacted a cap-and-trade system designed to curb carbon emissions. Meanwhile, climate change denialists strive to maintain a false…
tfk | November 14, 2012At today's presidential press conference, New York Times reporter Mark Landler broke a trend that ran through the presidential campaign, a trend of silence about climate change. From the transcript:
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to confront the threat of climate change than your opponent. Tomorrow you're going up to New York City, where you're going to, I assume, see people who are still suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which many people say is further evidence of how…
illconsidered | November 12, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
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November 11, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Post Sandy, Athena, PwC, Extremes, Ice Ages, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon…
sastyk | November 9, 2012This essay hits the nail on the head, and could pretty much have appeared in the New York Times, minus some vocabulary:
“I was just watching a CNN news story about how much damage Sandy has caused in comparison to Katrina, Ike, or last year’s storm that ravaged the Northeast, and it dawned on me: ‘Ah, okay, being a human being on Planet Earth, pretty much no matter where you are, now involves the threat of one day having your home, city, or country decimated in a matter of hours by a severe weather event,’” Detroit resident Stacy Hillman said. “Looking at images of cities—actual American…
gregladen | November 8, 2012What are Global Warming and Climate Change?: Answers for Young Readers is a fairly unique book, as far as I know. It explains climate change, contextualized global warming, discusses causes and consequences and directly addresses the politics of climate change and global warming. The official book description:
"Global warming is one of the most talked about science subjects today. Maybe you have seen pictures of polar bears or other animals stranded atop floating chunks of melting ice. Perhaps you have heard about or lived through extreme weather - hurricanes, floods, water shortages, heat…
illconsidered | November 6, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
November 4, 2012
Chuckles, CCAMLR, Maldives, Subsidies, Cook
Sandy: General, Impacts, Caribbean, Nukes, Attribution, Politics, Recovery
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production…
milhayser | November 5, 2012
Hurricane Sandy Impacts Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (DE) by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29th, drawn northwest by two cold fronts into the most populous area of the United States. Coby Beck has a telling wind map of the colossal storm on A Few Things Ill Considered, which was abetted by "a full moon causing the highest high tides of the year." Sandy wreaked widespread devastation, and left over 100 Americans dead. Greg Laden writes that we have learned a lot from killer storms over the decades, and we were more prepared for Sandy than any…
illconsidered | October 29, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
October 28, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, TWotW, Gas Flaring, Thomas, CBD, OIF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
sastyk | October 23, 2012I was asked this by a friend recently, and it has been stuck in my head (even though the whole idea requires an egomaniacal suspension of disbelief) - "If you could sit down to dinner with the people you think see the world we're in most clearly and spend dinner working on how to change things and be ready for a crisis, who would you invite to eat with you?" He added the caveat that I can have as many people as I want, and no, I don't have to cook and clean up ;-).
Actually, if I were going to do this, I would love to host. I like nothing better than to be the one doing the cooking,…