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January 30, 2013
(sorry to be so late this week, it was Australia Day weekend and I guess it threw off my rhythm!) 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…
January 23, 2013
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 23 Table of Contents Chapter 25 Chapter 24 The Anvil Breaks, November 20, 2055 As the train approached Centre City, I called Olivia on her personal number. A computerized voice told me the number was discontinued and dumped me into voicemail hell.…
January 21, 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 Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom January 20,…
January 17, 2013
Global warming stopped [insert random number of years] ago is probably the most common and mainstream of all the climate denier arguments out there.  It is shallow and wrong and there are many refutations of it out there.  I think this video from Skeptical Science is about as clear and…
January 16, 2013
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 22 Table of Contents Chapter 24 Chapter 23 The Ax Falls, November 20, 2055 A friendly guy took charge of me in the trailer. I stumbled back through the rings of security in a daze and was deposited at the train station like a lost child. I had to…
January 15, 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 Global Warming News Information Overload is Pattern Recognition January 13, 2013…
January 9, 2013
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 21 Table of Contents Chapter 23 Chapter 22 Vancouver, November 20, 2055 Apparently being in ConSec means never having to wait for a plane. Carman walked me through a gate and out onto the tarmac. No body scanners, no sniffer bots, no security check…
January 7, 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 Global Warming News Sipping from the Internet Firehose... January 6, 2013 Chuckles,…
January 7, 2013
So Tasmania is in the news, which is where I am living (see here for links).  The stories are about heat and bush fires.  So far, nothing as dramatic as "Black Saturday" four years ago has happened, thank goodness, but conditions are very similar. The post's "featured image" above is of the…
January 4, 2013
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 20 Table of Contents Chapter 22 Chapter 21 At a sidewalk cafe, November 19, 2055 In North America, privacy is a thing of the past. How often we hear that! Wherever you go, newseyes operated by various government agencies or private corporations…
January 2, 2013
This is worth your time.  
January 1, 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 Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years December 30, 2012…
December 28, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 19 Table of Contents Chapter 21 Chapter 20 An Awkward Homecoming, November 17, 2055 Adelle was right. I did have difficulty getting back through Customs. The time stretched on. After five hours, an iris scan and multiple DNA tests, not to mention…
December 26, 2012
I first saw this video at Planet 3.0 a fair while ago and have seen it posted again since.  I find it very uplifting despite being a jaded climate blogger of many years.  There are many other science-based music videos at www.symphonyofscience.com and I have listened/watch most (all?) of them, but…
December 25, 2012
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 Anthropocene Antics Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom December 23…
December 25, 2012
Negative brownie points to anyone who feels it necessary to point out that penguins and polar bears do not cross paths in the wild!  (Oops, I guess that would include me...) (cartoon courtesy of Alex Hallatt, Creator of Arctic Circle cartoons)  
December 23, 2012
(with seasonal gratuity to Eli Rabbet)
December 20, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 18 Table of Contents Chapter 20 Chapter 19 Rio Triste, October 22, 2055 Fifteen scientists formed the Mandate group and one staff person, a terrifyingly severe Dutch woman who managed schedules and bills. She never said more than two words to me…
December 17, 2012
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 Anthropocene Antics Information Overload is Pattern Recognition December 16, 2012…
December 13, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 17 Table of Contents Chapter 19 Chapter 18 Amazon, Sept. 29, 2055 Have you ever wondered what is the logic of your life? Sometimes I feel like a piece of flotsam bouncing on the waves of a river whose depth and currents I cannot fathom, whose path…
December 10, 2012
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 Anthropocene Antics Sipping from the Internet Firehose... December 9, 2012 Chuckles,…
December 5, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 16 Table of Contents Chapter 18 Chapter 17 Microbugs, Sept. 25, 2055 A couple of ConSec guys appeared and we climbed back into the paddywagon for the ride home. We didn't talk. As I entered the kitchen, I was enveloped in a wave of unreality. It…
December 4, 2012
(The following is posted by het) I have noticed some comments here about Fukushima and I thought it might be useful to have one post to capture that conversation. So please, have forth here. I live in the middle of Canada. Fukushima is on the other side of the world. The only information I have…
December 3, 2012
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 in the Planetary Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years December 2, 2012…
November 29, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 15 Table of Contents Chapter 17 Chapter 16 Carman, Sept. 25, 2055 Matt had been on the west coast for two months. Jon was in Ottawa with the Senator. I was happy with Olivia. Our life was never dull. Doc Y, as Jim Yablonski was affectionately known…
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 roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom November 25,…
November 22, 2012
The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 14 Table of Contents Chapter 16 Chapter 15 The Great Work, September 7, 2055 In the top centre drawer of the big desk in dad's library, I found an unmarked envelope containing this document. The Great Work, March 2040 My time is getting short and I…
November 20, 2012
Dave Roberts notes the connection between the two right wing reality bubbles of climate change denial and Romney landslide predictions. But as we saw on Election Day, sometimes reality can come along and snap the spell of wishful thinking. It happened the week before Election Day too. That’s when a…
November 19, 2012
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 in the Planetary Crisis Information Overload is Pattern Recognition November 18, 2012…
November 18, 2012
I don't myself visit Watts' blog unless someone points to something particularly funny or egregious, and the comment threads are so long and monotonous it is even rarer that I go there. That said, I am always grateful to others who have occasion to do that hard work and who come back out to…