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August 15, 2012
The Bottleneck Years Chapter 0 Table of Contents Chapter 2 by H.E. Taylor Chapter 1 The Burning Lake, May 11, 2055 I don't know what Matt said to dad, but whatever it was, it didn't take long. I had a quick shower downstairs and changed clothes, thinking to head back to university. By the time I…
August 13, 2012
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 August 12, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, COP18+, 2 Degrees, Elgin, BEST, Truthiness Bottom Line, Pricing…
August 9, 2012
More melt excitement in the arctic.  An unprecedented summer cyclone in the arctic has clobbered sea ice already tracking at record daily low area (58 days in a row now) and near record daily low extent measurements.  As always, the go-to place for sea ice watching and discussion is Neven's: Arctic…
August 8, 2012
The Bottleneck Years Table of Contents Chapter 1 by H.E. Taylor Chapter 0 Edie, May 11, 2055 I hate it when I find myself doing something and I don't know why. Somehow that seems to happen a lot around my brother, Matt. This time he wanted me to accompany him on a visit to his fiancee, Adelle. I…
August 8, 2012
  The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor My thanks go to Marlene for listening and to Kaeren and Rick at the Sal's for their many helpful comments.ISBN: 978-0-9881321-0-8 Copyright(2012) by H.E. Taylor     Table of Contents     Chapter Title Date Page 0 Edie May 11, 2055 5 1 The Burning Lake May 11…
August 8, 2012
As regulars are well aware, much (some periods, all!) of the content here is not produced by me, but by H. E. Taylor (het) in the form of the weekly global warming news roundup.  Well, we are in for some more regular content in the form of his latest novel, The Bottleneck Years.  The text below…
August 6, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomAugust 5, 2012…
August 1, 2012
Via email, you might like to have a look at this video from CollegeHumour, a "what if" look at an alternative Lorax raised on Fox News propoganda: CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
July 31, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJuly 29, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+…
July 27, 2012
The UCS is having a cartoon contest, go here to vote for your favorite.  Please feel free to vote for any of my favorites, below  ;-) (This last one is confirmed by many of the past discussions around here!)
July 27, 2012
Some interesting goings-on in the cryosphere these days. In this chart (click the link for an interactive, larger resolution version) from the cryosphere today we can see that we are on the 45th day in a row of daily record lows in sea ice area. Note that this is area which is different from extent…
July 26, 2012
skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose...July 22, 2012 Chuckles, COP18…
July 20, 2012
Hopping down the bunny trail comes the (not) surprising news that law enforcement investigating the CRU email scandal (aka Climategate, aka Swifthack) have concluded that the email servers were hacked and this is not the imagined whistle blower the WUWT and Curry crowd like to pretend.  Though they…
July 20, 2012
This is not my opinion!  But forget about damning with faint praise, given the source this is damning with high praise. Obama’s negotiator, Todd Stern, will be here today. They have kept the exact same principles and negotiating stance as President George Bush did for eight years. Obama has carried…
July 18, 2012
"Show me the code!" This is the rallying cry of climate "skeptics" everywhere and the foundation of the numerous climate conspiracy insinuations hurled around the blogosphere. Well, apparently what is good for the goose, the infamous Hockeystick, is not so good for the gander, the Wegman Report.…
July 16, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 15, 2012 Chuckles, Post-…
July 10, 2012
Just a quick note to say that the Science Blogs move to NGeo has changed the RSS feed so any AFTIC subscribers who want to keep following the rare posting of mine and/or het's weekly news round-up should resubscribe using the links to the right --> (Yes, that notice is more than a month overdue…
July 9, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJuly 8, 2012…
July 3, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJuly 1, 2012 Chuckles, Post-…
June 29, 2012
Michael Tobis has an excellent piece up at Planet3.0 here: A Thousand Bastrops | Planet3.0.
June 25, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Sipping from the Internet Firehose...June 24, 2012 Chuckles, Solstice…
June 18, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJune 17, 2012 Chuckles, Rio…
June 12, 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJune 10, 2012…
June 4, 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 roundupskip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 3, 2012 Chuckles, Rio…
May 28, 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose... May 27, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20…
May 21, 2012
This image has been going around the intertubes recently, I saw it first on Planet 3.0 and again on APOD. It is one of those interesting illustrations of large quantities that seems surprising or anti-intuitive either because you never thought about it carefully before or just because it is hard to…
May 21, 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 Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMay 20, 2012 Chuckles,…
May 15, 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 of in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomMay 13,…
May 11, 2012
The following article is mirrored from TomDispatch.com. I thought that while we are watching the weather heat up, we should not forget that geo-politics heats up with it. Six Recent Clashes and Conflicts on a Planet Heading Into Energy Overdrive By Michael T. Klare Conflict and intrigue over…
May 10, 2012
It is by now old news that George Zimmerman has finally been arrested for the unprovoked killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, 17 yr old African American teenager on his way home from the store with a bit of junk food. It took over a month and huge public outcry to get even this small step…