A Few Things Ill Considered
Archives for December, 2008
The Ecological Crunch and the Dyer Scale
Posted by coby on December 30, 2008 The following article is a guest post by H. E. Taylor, who you might recognize as the one who graciously provides us with the weekly GW news roundups. The Ecological Crunch and the Dyer Scale
Another Week of GW News, December 28, 2008
Posted by coby on December 29, 2008 Another Week of Climate Disruption News 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
Another Week of GW News, December 21, 2008
Posted by coby on December 22, 2008 Another Week of Climate Disruption News 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
How’s this for jaw dropping…
Posted by coby on December 17, 2008 How’s this for jaw dropping, mind-boggling, unintentional irony? Question to the Bush administration at this year’s UN climate change talks: If you look back over the course of the last few years, is there anything you would have done differently or is there anything you wished had happened but didn’t happen? Answer:
A question of time
Posted by coby on December 16, 2008 My first Common Lisp programming job was for Mercury Scheduling (no longer around) working on the back end of airline crew control software. The main focus was assisting crew controllers in scheduling personnel on flights. We had to satisfy literally hundreds of constraints from union regulations, government regulations to…what else?…oh yeah, the constraints of reality…
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Posted by coby on December 15, 2008 …interviews who?? Fatih Birol is the Chief Economist for the International Energy Authority, the agency that the whole world (or at least the “official” part of that world) relies on for forecasts about energy production and demand. This is the organization that governments around the world like to cite when dismissing as crackpots people warning…
Another Week of GW News, December 14, 2008
Posted by coby on December 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
How kewl is this?
Posted by coby on December 13, 2008 Via last Thursday’s APOD, I came to this site where I downloaded an excellent, high-res video about some recent research out of Germany. Over the last 16 years, a team of astronomers have taken images of a tiny patch of sky that is the very center of the milky way. By doing this they have…
“Frosty the Coalman”
Posted by coby on December 11, 2008 This is too hilarious for words, seven lumps of coal wearing scarves and toques singing Christmas carols about “clean coal” and energy independence! There are six to chose from, I didn’t get far but my favorite is transcribed below:
Another Week of GW News, December 7, 2008
Posted by coby on December 8, 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