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illconsidered | December 17, 2013This 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsDecember 15, 2013 Chuckles, COP19, AGU, WTO, Energiewende Bottom Line, Big Banks, Cook, ShrinkologyFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, New Weather GHGs, Climate Sensitivity, Clouds, Ozone, ENSO,…
oracknows | December 13, 2013Thanks, Daily Kos.
Well, not really. You'll see why in a minute, but first here's the background. There's a general impression out there that the political right is associated with the antiscience that includes anthropogenic global warming denialism, denial of evolution, and denial of aspects of reproductive biology that don't jibe with their religious beliefs, and that consensus while the political left's brand of antiscience includes antivaccine beliefs and fear mongering about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Of course, as I've discussed many times before, it's more complicated than…
illconsidered | December 9, 2013This 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 Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomDecember 8, 2013 Chuckles, COP19, GCF, WTO, Hansen, AGU, WCPFC, Potash, Energiewende Bottom Line, Big Banks, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Antennae, Cook, MeteorologistsFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Forecasts, Extreme…
illconsidered | December 3, 2013This 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 Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionDecember 1, 2013 Chuckles, COP20+, COP19, Gates & Larter, Heede Energiewende, Crap Detector, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes Weather Machine, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | November 27, 2013(featured image comes from the world resources institute, go to the link for background and explanation, here is a short cut to a full size image)
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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
November 24, 2013
Chuckles, COP19: The Deal, REDD+, The Negotiations, Daily Reports
GCP, CCPI, CGD, Heede, Cowtan & Way , Potash, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Big Banks, Pricing Nature, Crap Detector, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News…
illconsidered | November 18, 2013This 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 As We Enter a New Age of ConsequencesNovember 17, 2013 Chuckles, COP19, Dailies, WMO, WEO, Cowtan & Way, GermanWatch WG2 Leak, Maldives, Energiewende, Estrada, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Haiyan, Recovery, Zoraida, Misc. Notable Weather, Extreme Weather…
illconsidered | November 11, 2013This 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 10, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, WG2 Leak, Haiyan, Fukushima, Maldives, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Cook, ShrinkologyFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Extreme Weather GHGs, Nitrogen Cycle, Solar, Cosmic Rays, Aerosols, Volcanoes ENSO,…
oracknows | November 8, 2013The other day, I pointed out that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was following in the footsteps of the former chair of the committee, likely the quackiest, most antivaccine Congressman who ever served in the House of Representatives. Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN). I guess that since Burton retired at the end of the last Congress, someone has to step up to the plate when it comes to pushing the antivaccine agenda. Issa is doing that by holding a hearing a year ago on "autism" that was in reality a thinly disguised excuse to castigate…
illconsidered | November 4, 2013This 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 not WisdomNovember 3, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Post AR5, WG2 Leak, Maplecroft, Kunming, Teng, Donner DLST, Maldives, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme…
illconsidered | October 29, 2013This 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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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 27, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bangkok, Post-AR5, Maldives, Potash, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather
GHGs,…
illconsidered | October 21, 2013This 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose...October 20, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Alternatives, Post-AR5, ODI, Maldives, Governance Energiewende, Bottom Line, GFIs, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Weather Machine Sensitivity, Clouds, Ozone…
illconsidered | October 14, 2013This 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 As we enter a new Age of ConsequencesOctober 13, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, GCF, Greenhouse 2013, Africa Climate, Post-AR5, Mora Potash, Maldives GFIs, CookFukushima: Note, News, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Carbon Cycle, Cosmic Rays Weather Machine,…
pgleick | October 14, 2013Snow. Glaciers. Icecaps, River flows. All of these are vulnerable to climate change, especially rising temperature. This isn't just theory. It’s now observable fact.
Scientists worry about the growing threat of climate change because the global climate is tied to everything that society cares about: human and environmental health, food and industrial production, water availability, extreme events, and more. Figuring out how all these pieces tie together is difficult. And many of us, from scientists to the public to policy makers, have only a partial understanding of the true implications of…
illconsidered | October 10, 2013This 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
October 6, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, WG1-AR5, AR5 Comments, ASEAN, IPSO, Crux, Fergus
Bottom Line, Big Banks, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols…
illconsidered | October 1, 2013This 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 Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomSeptember 29, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, IPCC - SPM, IPCC - Reactions, IPCC - Buildup UNGA CE&C, MDGs, Maldives, Potash, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Pricing Nature, Cook, ShrinkologyFukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, GeopoliticsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes,…
gregladen | September 29, 2013I've been a guest or interviewer on Minnesota Atheist Talk radio a number of times. I never talk about atheism because I'm nothing close to an expert on that or related issues (though I do have a chapter in a book about it, here!). And, of course, I'm very involved, professionally, in certain church-state separation issues (like this and this). But on Atheist Talk Radio I mainly engage in either science (lately climate change science but also evolution) or the afore mentioned church-state separation issues vis-a-vis the evolution-creationism "debate."
Anyway, I've been meaning to finally…
illconsidered | September 24, 2013This 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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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
Equinox Edition
September 22, 2013
Equinox, COP19+, IPCC, HMNDP, MDG, EDF, Potash, Maldives, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Aerosols, Volcanoes,…
oracknows | September 23, 2013Antivaccine warriors hate science because it does not support their fear and loathing of vaccines. At the same time, they want to use it to justify that very same fear and loathing of vaccines. However, as much as antivaccinationists hate scientific studies that fail to find a link between vaccines and autism or vaccine additives like the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal and autism, there's a certain set of studies that they hate more than any other, and these are the so-called "Danish studies." Indeed, I learned of this hatred a long time ago, when Kristjan Wager wrote a guest post…
illconsidered | September 18, 2013(Featured image from http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-09/14/c_132720300.htm)
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. I am late because I am traveling. Normality should resume before next Monday's posting...
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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
September 15, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, G20, XPrize, CDP, Germany, Potash
Bottom Line, EBRD, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel,…
oracknows | September 18, 2013If there's one thing I've learned about antivaccinationists, it's that they're all about the double standards. For instance, to them if Paul Offit makes money off of his rotavirus vaccine, he's a pharma shill, a hopelessly compromised "biostitute" (as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called him) or "Dr. Proffit", and therefore to be dismissed on that basis alone regardless of his knowledge of science. If I happen to get a small grant from a pharmaceutical company, even though it isn't even enough to pay the full salary of a postdoctoral fellow, or receive a small amount of money for my blogging from a…