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illconsidered | September 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
September 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IAC, Death Valley, Bottom Line, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, TV Weather
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Fauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
sciencepunk | September 17, 2012AN UNWELCOME SURPRISE
The WMD was discovered, quite by chance, lying by the side of a Bridgeville road in late July by a Delaware state trooper on an unrelated callout. Jutting out of the ground, the 75mm shell was encrusted in barnacles and pitted with rust; barely recognisable as a munition at all. The trooper called in his find and a military team took the bomb to Dover Air Force Base for disposal. As with most conventional rounds, a small charge was placed on the side of the shell and detonated to trigger the vintage munition’s own explosive. But something went wrong, and the bomb failed…
illconsidered | September 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
September 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CAT, Maldives
Subsidies, GFIs, Pricing Nature, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Speculation, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | September 7, 2012(click here for a higher resolution image)
While thinking about the image above from EarthTrack.net a "sign this pettition" request from Avaaz.org landed in my mail box. (Fair warning, I have not checked this out very carefully. Please do say so in the comments if this issue is being misrepresented). Read below:
Climate change is accelerating, but there’s a massive ray of hope: clean energy is booming, producing nearly 20% of the world's electricity! Incredibly, the US and EU are threatening to stifle this breakthrough -- but together we can stop them.
In the last decade the Chinese…
stoat | September 7, 2012From The Top American Science Questions: 2012. Which starts with:
"Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
Well, that's you yanks totally f*ck*d then, ha ha. Not that we're any better off. still, at least we manage to believe in evolution and we're not a pile of religious fanatics :-).
So anyway, enough random insults, what do Da Man and Dah Challenger haz to say?
First off, lets look at the question
Climate Change. The Earth’s climate is changing and there is concern about the potentially adverse effects of these…
illconsidered | September 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 2, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, PIF, AMS, Wadham, Maldives EU-Aus ETS, GCF, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMO Labelling,…
illconsidered | August 28, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
August 26, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Overshoot Day, The Critical Decade, GCF, Thermodynamics, 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,…
gregladen | August 24, 2012Here's the last few news reports:
August 21: NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating the Martian weather around it and the soil beneath it, as its controllers prepare for the car-size vehicle's first drive on Mars.
The rover's weather station, provided by Spain, checks air temperature, ground temperature, air pressure, wind and other variables every hour at the landing site in Gale Crater. On a typical Martian day, or "sol," based on measurements so far in the two-week old mission, air temperatures swing from 28 degrees to…
illconsidered | August 20, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
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August 19, 2012
Chuckles, G20, Ocean Health Index, CSIRO, BEST, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Greenland, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | August 13, 2012This 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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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
August 12, 2012
Chuckles, Rio+20, COP18+, 2 Degrees, Elgin, BEST, Truthiness
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Greenland, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Temperatures
Historical…
jdupuis | August 8, 2012I feel a little weird reviewing this book.
It's a TED book, you see.
What's a TED book, you ask. I'll let TED tell you:
Shorter than a novel, but longer than an magazine article -- a TED Book is a great way to feed your craving for ideas anytime.
TED Books are short original electronic books produced every two weeks by TED Conferences. Like the best TEDTalks, they're personal and provocative, and designed to spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000 words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but short enough to be read in a single sitting.
TED talks, in other words…
illconsidered | 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 Chuckles, COP18, Blackout, Ballantyne, BEST, GCF, Banks, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Grolar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
esiegel | August 6, 2012“We are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to being able to send men to the moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later. Given the will, we could have humans on Mars within a decade.” -Robert Zubrin
This is what we can accomplish when we invest in something big.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Mars Science Laboratory.
I'm not talking about the Olympics, of course. I'm talking about investing in science, in exploration, in robotics, in engineering, in technology, and in humanity, and what can we accomplish?
Image credit: Mars Curiosity / NASA / JPL…
gregladen | August 3, 2012The Mars Science Laboratory Mission has piles of cool equipment on board Curiosity Rover, which is closing in on Mars as we speak. The landing is expected to be next Sunday/Monday, 10:31 p.m. Aug. 5 PDT (1:31 a.m. Aug. 6 EDT, 05:31 Aug. 6 Universal Time) plus or minus a minute.. But not really, because the event is happening a it far away in spacetime; those are the times that the signals from Mars will arrive on the planet Earth, about 13.8 minutes after the event has happened. The mission is expected to last one Martian year, which is close to two Earth years. The weather at the landing…
illconsidered | 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+20, First Stewards, C&CAI, Anderson, BEST Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | July 26, 2012skip 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+, Iron, Penguins, Yes Men, Status, Hilfiker, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Petermann, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Jet Streams,…
illconsidered | 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-Rio+20, COP18+, Resource 2012, ICRS, SOTC, Penguins, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labels, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Jet…
gregladen | July 9, 2012There is a new book coming out called How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming. Here is a description:
When the weather changes daily, how do we really know that Earth’s climate is changing? Here is the science behind the headlines - evidence from flowers, butterflies, birds, frogs, trees, glaciers and much more, gathered by scientists from all over the world, sometimes with assistance from young "citizen-scientists." And here is what young people, and their families and teachers, can do to learn about climate change and take action.…
illconsidered | 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 Chuckles, Post Rio+20, Derecho, Power Failure, Heatwave, Colorado, Bottom Line, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Kurokawa, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | 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-Rio+20, ATBC, Derecho, Colorado Subsidies, World Bank, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols Paleoclimate,…