Environment
illconsidered | August 24, 2010 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 Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose...August 22, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Geneva, Kathmandu, AAS Report, McShane & Wyner, Zhao & Running The Question, China, Russia, Pakistan, World Bank, Overshoot, Basic Versions, IAC, Post CRU, Montford Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Pavlovsk Agricultural Station, Food Production…
illconsidered | August 16, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsAugust 15, 2010 Chuckles, Post Bonn, COP16+, KlimaForum10, Jet Stream, The Question, China, Russia, Pakistan Bottom Line, Ecuadorian Oil, 1 Sky's Question, Post CRU, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane Food Crisis, Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | August 9, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Another Week of Global Warming News Information overload is pattern recognitionAugust 8, 2010 Chuckles, Bonn, COP16+, Chutzpah, BASIC, Pacific Island Forum, Phytoplankton, ESA, The Question, Russia, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Ecuador's Oil, Free Access, Grumbine, Curious, Terminology, Post CRU, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Petermann…
nisbetmc | August 5, 2010
One paper in the special issue proposes strategies for catalyzing greater collaboration on climate change communication among the "four cultures."
The August issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment features open-access articles that review research, define challenges, and propose new initiatives in the area of science communication with a focus on environmental controversies. Over the past several years, there has been increasing attention to communication and public engagement at flagship science journals. The special issue of Frontiers represents the most…
illconsidered | August 2, 2010 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 Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...August 1, 2010 Chuckles, BASIC, Bonn, COP16+, Water, Phytoplankton, State of the Climate, WCI, Free Access Subsidies, Psych, Snowstorms, Post CRU, Pepsigate Melting Arctic, HMS Investigator, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Temperatures,…
gregladen | August 1, 2010Anthropogenic global warming has been suspected for decades, and a simple one paragraph long characterization of the problem 40 years ago was substantially identical to any accurate characterization we might make today. One has to wonder why after 40 years of time we still see headlines telling us that it might, after all, turn out to be true that anthropogenic global warming is real. Indeed, it is a bit disconcerting when the inestimable climate blog RealClimate notes that this is the 35th "Anniversary of Global Warming" as a term in the peer reviewed scientific literature (though I…
nisbetmc | July 29, 2010
In the wake of last week's defeat of cap and trade, the predictable narrative offered by bloggers and commentators has been to blame the failure on industry, skeptics, and Republicans. It's also the explanation likely echoing in the minds of many scientists and environmental advocates.
But it's important to take a step back from the easy emotional reaction and take a look at the complexity of factors that shape societal gridlock on this issue. As I remarked to Andrew Revkin at Dot Earth earlier this month:
If we were able to statistically model societal inaction on climate change, what…
eklemetti | July 28, 2010
Lava flows from Kilauea in Hawai`i move towards a home in Kalapana.
Whenever I think about the hazards posed by most lava flows, I tend to think about the opening scene in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Developers are planning to knock our hero Arthur Dent's house down and as a last ditch effort to stop its destruction, Arthur lies down in front of the bulldozer. The demolition supervisor, a certain Mr. Prosser, at one point asks Arthur if he knows how much damage the bulldozer might suffer if he just lets it roll over poor Mr. Dent. Arthur says he doesn't know and Mr. Prosser replies…
illconsidered | July 27, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 25, 2010 Note, Chuckles, Surrender, COP16+, BASIC Group, CEM, Asian Adaptation, Anthropocene Warm Lakes, Oxygen, Subsidies, Post CRU, Anderegg, Monckton's Shame, Pepsigate Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | July 23, 2010"I don't think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that started about nine years ago."
Um...okay. I guess that's true if your definition of "anyone" excludes every single scientific agency that concerns itself with climate indicators and those of us who actually look at them. A good dose of boring old real reality from the Union of Concerned Scientists follows:
In response to a question during an ABC News / Washington Post interview today about recent heat waves and record temperatures, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said, "I don't think that anyone…
hrynyshyn | July 20, 2010Stanford physicist Robert B. Laughlin shared a Nobel prize in 1998 for helping explain something called the fractional quantum Hall effect. That particular phenomenon has nothing to do with climatology, and neither does the rest of Laughlin's c.v. Still, one might expect something cogent about the public policy challenge posed by anthropogenic climate change if it appears under the byline of such a scientific luminary. One would, in this case, be wrong.
Laughlin's thoughts are laid out in in an essay titled "What the Earth Knows" in American Scholar. The not-so-groundbreaking thesis is that…
illconsidered | July 19, 2010So, I do attract the occasional nutter email, and they meet the trash can pretty quickly, but this fellow put so much verbal affort at this one sent to my Facebook account I thought I should share the laugh.
Check it out below:
Sat with numerous scientists in earth and climate science and laughed our collective asses off that someone actually believes the bullshit regarding AGW. the astronomers in the group quickly point out the idiots like yourself are far more likely to run headlong into the ice berg of global cooling before you realize the Titanic sized ship of stupidity lead by Captain…
illconsidered | July 19, 2010 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 Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionJuly 18, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, UN CFG, Nepal, MEF, Long Term GHGs, Diffenbaugh, Emmert, Psyche, Anderegg Bottom Line, Subsidies, IEA-UNEP, 446 Questions, Nastiness, Abuse, Media Complicity, Post CRU, Pepsigate Melting Arctic, Jakobshavn Isbrae Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, IP Issues…
illconsidered | July 12, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...July 11, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, USSF, GGCS, Ooops, Beer et al., Hoegh-Guldberg & Bruno, PepsiGate Subsidies, Abuse, NEAA-PBL, Slant, Muir Russell, Post CRU, Media Complicity, FOI Attack Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs & IP Issues, FAOSTAT, Food…
stoat | July 11, 2010Since the last of the CRU-email inquiries came in, a whole string of rubbish journo's have been queuing up to try to explain why, given that the inquires enhonerated the scientists, there was so much kerfuffle over the whole issue. Naturally, given that the journo's can't have been wrong, the scientists must have done something wrong, so a whole string of tedious "yes they were exhonerated but still, they could have done better" posts have come and gone.
Pearce was trash. Monbiot was rubbish during the fuss and was rubbish afterwards though JA took the piss out of him better than I did. mt…
oracknows | July 8, 2010I've been a critic of Arianna Huffington's massive group blog, The Huffington Post, since three weeks after it first blighted the blogosphere. That's when I first noticed that the "health" section (such as it is) of HuffPo had already become a wretched hive of scum and anti-vaccine quackery, something I began documenting again and again and again and again and again over five years ago, before Salon.com and Rolling Stone flushed their credibility right down the crapper with Robert F. Kennedy's infamous conspiracy mongering about thimerosal in vaccines. Indeed, I continue to document the…
illconsidered | July 8, 2010Many readers have likely noted the phrase "Logging the Onset of the Bottleneck Years" prefacing many editions of the "Another Week of Global Warming News" series.
A recent commenter asked what this means. I forwarded the question to het. I think his reply makes an interesting post.
The term 'bottleneck' refers to the ecological crisis humans are experiencing as resource limits, climate change, species extinction and environmental degradation, exacerbated by population pressure, make daily life more difficult for increasingly large numbers of people.
The term 'bottleneck' has been in the air…
esiegel | July 7, 2010"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." -Mark Victor Hansen
Last week, the Obama Administration unveiled their new National Space Policy for the United States of America. This is the first national space policy since Bush's policy from 2006.
Do you remember what the main stated goal of the Bush administration was? To "…
oracknows | July 6, 2010Oh, goody.
It looks as though the fall is going to be a repeat of the spring as far as anti-vaccine lunacy goes. This spring, we had the release of a book by the now disgraced granddaddy of the most recent incarnation of the anti-vaccine movement, Andrew Wakefield. The book, entitled Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, was released to great fanfare by the antivaccine movement and then promptly tanked. This is not surprising, given how bad it apparently was. Only the die hards would want a copy, and it's currently languishing around number 23,576 on the Amazon…
illconsidered | July 5, 2010 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 Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 4, 2010 Note, Chuckles, Post G20, COP16, COP15 Cash, MEF, US Social Forum, AR5 Bottom Line, Subsidies, Anderegg et al., Michael Mann, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Climate Sensitivity, Tipping…