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illconsidered | November 19, 2012Logging 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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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
November 18, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IEA-WEO, Post Sandy, Sheffield, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | November 12, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
November 11, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Post Sandy, Athena, PwC, Extremes, Ice Ages, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon…
gregladen | November 8, 2012What are Global Warming and Climate Change?: Answers for Young Readers is a fairly unique book, as far as I know. It explains climate change, contextualized global warming, discusses causes and consequences and directly addresses the politics of climate change and global warming. The official book description:
"Global warming is one of the most talked about science subjects today. Maybe you have seen pictures of polar bears or other animals stranded atop floating chunks of melting ice. Perhaps you have heard about or lived through extreme weather - hurricanes, floods, water shortages, heat…
illconsidered | November 6, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
November 4, 2012
Chuckles, CCAMLR, Maldives, Subsidies, Cook
Sandy: General, Impacts, Caribbean, Nukes, Attribution, Politics, Recovery
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production…
gregladen | November 3, 2012Answer: About 20 meters. Th Hubble Space Telescope's aperture is 2.4 meters. So, you really can't do it at the present time.
This is one of a large, seemingly inestimable number of practical need-to-know and esoteric questions addressed in Lawrence Weinstein's book Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin, a followup book on the earlier Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin.
I should say that I personally have an uncanny ability to estimate things. This comes from being an archaeologist with a lot of experience in CRM. For…
cmonforton | November 2, 2012I was eight years old on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. "Give a hoot, don't pollute!" was the slogan for us kids. When we'd see a newscast with factory stacks spewing thick gray smoke we'd say "yuck." We'd hold our noses when tailpipes of junker cars belched exhaust. In our minds, air pollution was a bad thing because of what we could see and smell. We sure didn't think about it as something that was cutting short people's lives.
One of the first prospective U.S. studies to demonstrate an association between air pollutants and premature mortality was published in the New England…
illconsidered | October 29, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
October 28, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, TWotW, Gas Flaring, Thomas, CBD, OIF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
illconsidered | October 26, 2012As you travel the inter-tubes in search of learned discourse, understanding and information to prepare you for the coming climate cataclysms, you will see many curious creatures, some common, some rare, who are here for the sole purpose of deterring, deceiving and confusing you. Some will pray on your admitted ignorance or uncertainty. Some will pray on your subconscious wish that climate change not be real or if it is, it will be benign. Some will seem to engage sincerely but seek only to lure you so deep into the rabbit hole you will be unable to return. Some will dazzle you with words so…
gregladen | October 23, 2012My friend and colleague Michael Mann just released the following information:
Lawsuit filed against The National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute 10/22/12
Today, the case of Dr. Michael E. Mann vs. The National Review and The Competitive Enterprise Institute was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Dr. Mann, a Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, has instituted this lawsuit against the two organizations, along with two of their authors, based upon their false and defamatory statements accusing him of…
illconsidered | October 22, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 21, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CBD-COP11, Mayor, Knight, OIF, Uranium, GCF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
lbock | October 22, 2012His work led to the worldwide elimination of chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs) from aerosol cans and refrigerators. The first Mexican-born citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Environmental problems pose a huge threat to Mother Earth, and it's up to scientists around the world to take a leading role in solving them, says chemist Mario José Molina. Mario is known globally among colleagues for putting these words into action. He was born in Mexico City where his father was a prominent lawyer and diplomat who went on to serve as chief Ambassador to Ethiopia, Australia and the…
cevans | October 16, 2012Stewart Brand, writing about space colonies, observed that "if you live in a satellite, the Earth is something that goes on in your sky."
For Felix Baumgartner, the daredevil skydiver who seduced the world with his chiseled jaw and seeming invulnerability to fear (and who broke the sound barrier with his body last weekend) the Earth is something else. The satellite he leapt from, a weather balloon 24 miles above the Earth, wasn't his home. But briefly, and especially for the millions who watched the gossamer balloon float upwards to the strange blue-black gradient of space's edge, it turned…
illconsidered | October 15, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
October 14, 2012
Wonderment, COP18+, State of the Planet, Conservation Targets, Maldives
Subsidies, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes,…
gregladen | October 9, 2012David Schnare is a climate change denier, right-wing activist, and lawyer, and he works for the conservative “free market” think tank American Tradition Institute (ATI). Evidence has come to light suggesting that Schnare acted unethically during the course of a recently settled legal battle over access to private emails exchanged among university based climate scientists. In particular, Schnare may have worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the same time he was engaged with work at ATI, without the required permission.
Almost two years ago, ATI initiated legal proceedings…
illconsidered | October 8, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
October 7, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, 50 Months, Too Conservative?, CCS vs Renewables, Maldives
Bottom Line, Hochberg, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food…
illconsidered | October 1, 2012Logging 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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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 30, 2012
Chuckles, Rio+20, UNGA, DARA, Attitudes, Maldives, Too Conservative?, Reichler
Bottom Line, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO…
jdupuis | September 29, 2012This past Thursday evening I was honoured to attend the awards ceremony for the 2011 Lane Anderson Award which celebrates the best science writing in Canada.
The winners were announced at the end of the evening. This is from the press release, which doesn't seem to be online yet:
Toronto. 2thth September, 2012: The two winners of the 2011 Lane Anderson Award were announced today by Hollister Doll and Sharon Fitzhenry, Directors of the Fitzhenry Family Foundation, at an intimate dinner in Toronto. The annual Lane Anderson Award honours two jury-selected books, in the categories of adult and…
illconsidered | September 24, 2012Logging 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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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
September 23, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Arctic Nukes, Séralini, Arctic Sea Ice
Bottom Line, Weather Machine, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Ring Seals, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO…
pronald | September 24, 2012The ‘Frankenfoods’ debate is coming to your dinner table. Just last month, a mini-war developed in Europe, when the European Union’s chief scientist, renowned biologist Anne Glover, said that foods made through genetic engineering, such as soy beans—about 80 percent of US grown soybeans have been genetically engineered —are as safe as organic or conventional foods.
It’s a wholly uncontroversial comment—at least among scientists. But it set off the usual scare mongering from Friends of the Earth, and other like-minded advocacy groups that finds all genetically engineered (GE) foods and crops…
esiegel | September 21, 2012"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth." -Ptolemy
As regular readers here will know, earlier this month I went to Glacier National Park, meeting up with an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in a few years. What you may not have known is that Rich is not just into photography, but he's recently taken an interest in astrophotography, which I started noticing when he started sending me photos like this.
Image credit: Richard Helmich, from April of 2012…