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The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 34
Table of Contents
Chapter 36
Chapter 35
Prometheus, March 8, 2056
To be honest, the Group 2 debacle was more of a public relations disaster than an ecological one. The damage was dramatic, but relatively restricted. Within 48 hours someone…
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
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
April 7, 2013
Chuckles, Fools, COP19+, MDGs, Critical…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 33
Table of Contents
Chapter 35
Chapter 34
Group 2 Disaster, February 17, 2056
At the next UNGETF conference, we were given an interim report on Corella Corporation activities on behalf of Group 2. They were using balloons to hoist tons of sulphur…
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 roundup
skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...March 31, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, North Korea, WSF, PES,…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 32
Table of Contents
Chapter 34
Chapter 33
Jon Visits, January 27, 2056
On Sunday Jon called to say he would be dropping around to visit next week. The Senator was scheduled to hold a series of meetings with Provincial and First Nation leaders. He…
Jeff Masters reports on these studies:
Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, "A homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane surge threat since 1923," PNAS 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1209542109
Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, "Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from…
Logging 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,…
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…
Logging 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…
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…
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…
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…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
March 10, 2013…
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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'…
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 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…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
March 3, 2013
Chuckles,…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 28
Table of Contents
Chapter 30
Chapter 29
On the Home Front, December 8, 2055
When I got home that afternoon, Edie was in a bit of a state.
"Luc, what is going on?"
"What do you mean?"
"There was a phonecall for you a while ago...from the United…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
February 24, 2013…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 27
Table of Contents
Chapter 29
Chapter 28
UNGETF, December 8, 2055
I looked forward to the first meeting of Group 7 with some trepidation. According to my email update it was on the seventh floor of the MacDonald building which housed the…
This is not directly climate related, but it does pertain to the media and its abject failure to take its responsibilities towards democracy more seriously. Via The Huffington Post, I read these strong words from an angry press towards a secretive Whitehouse Administration:
Speaking on behalf…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February…
So it is about one year ago that Peter Gleick exposed the too-ashamed-to-admit-it donors of the science denialist industry flack Heartland Organization. Michael Tobis has a very comprehensive run-down and analysis of the event over on P3, I recommend it, especially if you need to get up to…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 26
Table of Contents
Chapter 28
Chapter 27
Eco 550 -- Geoengineering, November 29, 2055
When I was a student, it was not unusual to hear that virtual glasses were going to revolutionize education. Veegees, as they came to be called, were internet…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
February 10, 2013…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 25
Table of Contents
Chapter 27
Chapter 26
A Quiet Sunday, November 28, 2055
Sunday is a day of rest --- theoretically. I had intended to have a quiet day, do some yard work and maybe touch up my Amazon report for Doc Y. I was awakened early by a…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
February 3, 2013
Chuckles…
Seen on APOD, please enjoy this stunning act of simple observation.
Full Moon Silhouettes
Video Credit & Copyright: Mark Gee; Music: Tenderness (Dan Phillipson)
From APOD's description:
One impressive moonrise was imaged two nights ago over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New…
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 24
Table of Contents
Chapter 26
Chapter 25
Rhamaposa, November 21, 2055
Due to the tyranny of digital time, I know it was 3:17 in the morning when the house system woke me to answer an urgent call. Voice only. My first thought was, 'Oh lord, now…
NASA's JPL division has an interesting article on thawing dry ice (frozen CO2) near the polar regions of Mars.
Aside from its being interesting, I only bring it up as it reminds me of the faux skeptic talking point about Mars warming, ergo the sun drives warming here on earth. It is about as…