A Few Things Ill Considered
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Another Week of Climate Chaos News, March 24, 2013
Posted by coby on March 26, 2013 Logging 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 skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Chaos News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years March 24, 2013 Chuckles, Equinox, COP19+, WWD, Earth…
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 32
Posted by coby on March 20, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 31 Table of Contents Chapter 33 Chapter 32 One Thing After Another, December 14, 2055 The next few days were just one damned thing after another. On Monday, when I walked into Ecology 550, a spontaneous wave of applause broke out. I held up my hands. “Okay. Okay,…
Another Week of GW News, March 17, 2013
Posted by coby on March 18, 2013 Logging 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 skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom March 17, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, JOGMEC, Marcott…
Chinese corporate hackers, the Chamber of Commerce, Fakegate
Posted by coby on March 15, 2013 What do they have in common? Apparently some methodologies, uncovered by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Details can be found in an interesting, if dense, article at The Nation, which describes how Anonymous revealed dealings the Chamber of Commerce was having with a Cyber Security firm that did not limit itself to defensive measures. Attorneys for…
Inside the Corporate Media Pressure Machine
Posted by coby on March 14, 2013 While this is not strictly relevant to climate (nor a new story), it is a very compelling and interesting illustration of why corporate media in general, and Fox in particular, can not be trusted with news stories where science intersects with an industry’s profitability. As mentioned in the video, this is the incident which prompted…
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 31
Posted by coby on March 14, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 30 Table of Contents Chapter 32 Chapter 31 A Convention of Idiots, December 12, 2055 Reality landed right on my shoulders with a thump that evening. I was at home in the library categorizing and prioritizing the Ecology 550 students’ geoengineering ideas, when the phone rang. It was…
Another Week of GW News, March 10. 2013
Posted by coby on March 11, 2013 Logging 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 skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Instability News Information Overload is Pattern Recognition March 10, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, Angry Summer, Marcott, DLST,…
Volcanos may be countering greenhouse warming
Posted by coby on March 8, 2013 
(image info and credits) Fake skeptics of anthropogenic global warming love to set up the straw man that mainstream climate science believes that CO2 is the one and only driver of climate change. They can then use it in many different attacks, such as gee whiz isn’t it stupid that they haven’t even thought of…
“Cyclists Do Not Emit More Carbon Than Cars, State Legislator Admits”
Posted by coby on March 8, 2013 Headline of the week from NPR. It is worth noting that even if the Republican representative has now apologized for his remarks and admitted they were stupid either because he realizes it or because he has to, he has not changed his position on a special tax on bicycles. (h/t willard)
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 30
Posted by coby on March 6, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 29 Table of Contents Chapter 31 Chapter 30 Platonic Lust, December 12, 2055 Some women engineer their faces. They have studied celebrity, looked at the beautiful and followed the dictates of fashion. Their faces are uniformly flawless. Eyebrows are perfectly plucked to the prescribed trace. Their eyes are…