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March 10, 2014
Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here. 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 Logging the…
March 7, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 81 Table of Contents Chapter 83 Chapter 82 Rescued, November 20, 2059 The next day, Jon was formally charged by the IEC. they called it ecological crimes against humanity. Suddenly everyone had something to say. The media showed up. There were…
March 4, 2014
Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here. 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 Information…
February 28, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 80 Table of Contents Chapter 82 Chapter 81 Visitation Rights, November 19, 2059 I watched the days tick by, waiting for Wednesday. How would Jon receive me? What would his state of mind be? I was on tenterhooks when I placed the call. I should have…
February 24, 2014
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 Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionFebruary 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, G20, NAFTA, England et al., Energiewende Bottom Line,…
February 20, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 79 Table of Contents Chapter 81 Chapter 80 Makeba, November 14, 2055 Aretha, I would like to call your attention to an SRM device of which I have recently been apprised. The rough theory is in the UNGETF database, keyword Sunbugs. An implementation…
February 18, 2014
Via a blog posting on NPR, below is an excerpt from the recent Academy Award nominated documentary "Chasing Ice" showing highlights of a 75 minute glacier calving event recorded in Greenland. At the end is a time-lapse sequence of the entire event along with some visuals to put the size in…
February 18, 2014
As most of you know already, England's dramatic sequence of winter storms since December has resulted in its worst winter on record.  England's records go back 248 years.  (Al Jazeera is reporting 300 years).  Who knows if such a series of storms has ever occurred since the climate stabilized after…
February 18, 2014
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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose... February 16, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende Bottom Line,…
February 13, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 78 Table of Contents Chapter 80 Chapter 79 The Military Industrial Prison Complex, November 14, 2055 What do you do when your brother is locked up for an unconscionable crime and you have good reason to believe he is guilty? You see that he has a…
February 11, 2014
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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years February 9, 2014 Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies…
February 11, 2014
Via un-climate-related readings, I came across this gem (from the victim article of the link): My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it…
February 5, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 77 Table of Contents Chapter 79 Chapter 78 EcoCops, November 13, 2059 The next day the ecocops arrived. Edie and I were having breakfast, when they pulled up in the lane right below our window. Anna, as she liked to say, was "doing lady things" in…
February 4, 2014
Some remarkable weather in North America recently as most of you probably know.  Check out Jeff Masters for some of the details. Record warmth and precipitation in Alaska As of January 26, 13.83" of precipitation had fallen in Valdez during the month of January. This is more than 8" above average…
February 3, 2014
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 in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom February 2, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, NSA at…
February 1, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 76 Table of Contents Chapter 78 Chapter 77 Unburdening, November 12, 2059 I was in a state by the time I arrived at Centre City. I half expected the eco-cops to tap me on the shoulder at any moment. Edie met me at the door. "I didn't expect you…
January 30, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 75 Table of Contents Chapter 77 Chapter 76 A Better World, November 12, 2059 We settled in the back of a small electric cab. The driver slid open a slot in the plasteel barrier partitioning the passenger area. Peter gave him the UN offices as a…
January 30, 2014
The good Lord Monckton, self parody at its absolute finest: This charming and lively man, with a soul and a wit that are eternal youth personified, is the latest victim of the vicious hate campaign sedulously waged by the canting profiteers of doom against anyone who dares to speak out against the…
January 27, 2014
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 Information Overload is Pattern Recognition January 26, 2014 Chuckles, EU Climate Goals, WEF, WFES, POGO, Potash, Smog, Energiewende Bottom…
January 27, 2014
(promotion alert) I know most readers of this blog are godless scientific types, devoid of spirit and joy, unable to see the beauty in anything beyond a pile of numbers....(um, maybe that's not the start of a great sales pitch, let's try again :) For all of AFTIC's or ScienceBlog's readers who find…
January 22, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 74 Table of Contents Chapter 76 Chapter 75 Ottawa, November 7, 2059 Over the next month I watched and waited from my vantage point in UNGETF for some Solar Radiation Management [SRM] scheme to take the place of the sunshield. None was forthcoming.…
January 20, 2014
Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, see them all here. 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose…
January 16, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 73 Table of Contents Chapter 75 Chapter 74 Waiting, September 18, 2059 I went back to the university and sat in my office. Luckily I didn't have any more classes that day. I tried to work, but it was no use. I ended up scanning half a dozen news…
January 14, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 72 Table of Contents Chapter 74 Chapter 73 Sabotage, September 15, 2059 Anna was coming up on her fourth birthday when the rumblings of discontent from the Asian Union began to get louder. A mid-August snow in Japan had laid waste much of their…
January 14, 2014
This extreme weather driving jet stream behaviour is fast becoming the new normal.
January 13, 2014
Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, see them all here. 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck…
January 10, 2014
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 71 Table of Contents Chapter 73 Chapter 72 No Miracles, April 30, 2059 All that winter and spring, the sunshield count slowly increased. We passed 3,000, but nothing changed on Earth. Methane levels were still rising. Drought, flood and fire were…
January 10, 2014
[Update: it seems clear that records were broken after all as has been pointed out in the comments. So we are only left with Fox's reaction and youtube fog-pee videos. And let's face it, Fox's reaction was pretty predictable...] The recent cold snap was indeed remarkable and the media was buzzing…
January 8, 2014
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 Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom January 5, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, COP19, Sherwood, Post-2013, Pre-2014 Bottom Line…
December 31, 2013
Happy New Year!!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 Information Overload is Pattern Recognition December 29, 2013 Chuckles, COP20, Brulle, Retrospectives Potash,…