illconsidered | June 28, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 97
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Chapter 99
Chapter 98
The Second Day, March 21, 2061
On Monday morning, I watched the second session of Jon's trial alone in my office at CCU. I didn't have a class until mid-afternoon, so time was not an issue.
Jon was led into the courtroom in shackles, his hands bound in front of him, his feet less tightly bound. He was wearing a bright orange one piece suit. As he moved I could see his hands and feet were wired to a metal saucer shaped connector that hung about his knees.
He was deposited in a steel chair beside Bergmann.…
illconsidered | June 27, 2014Consensus, Criticism, Communication | Planet3.0.
This is a well written and comprehensive discussion of the "97% consensus" message, have a look!
illconsidered | June 23, 2014This 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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Confronting a New Age of Consequences
Solstice Edition
June 22, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Ocean Summit, PIDF, G77, IOREC, GreenPeace, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Economics, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Sea Ice Forecats, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Aerosols…
illconsidered | June 19, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 96
Table of Contents
Chapter 98
Chapter 97
The Trial, March 18, 2061
Although I had resolved never to expose Edie and Anna to Jon's vitriol since the first call, I didn't have a lot of choice when it came to the trial. Unfortunately, I had a class at the same time. By the time I got back to my office, it was over. The video transcript was not yet online, so I headed home.
It was a warm day. As I walked along the lake, the trees were turning green. Birds were singing. Ducks splashed in the water. It was beautiful, but I rather dreaded what I might…
illconsidered | June 16, 2014This 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
June 15, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Globe, Mischief, EPA Carbon Rule, Wenju Cai, Warnings, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Forecasts, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | June 11, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 95
Table of Contents
Chapter 97
Chapter 96
Eco550 - The Oceans, November 14, 2060
After flying around the Arctic spring and summer, fall classes felt a little tame, but I must admit I was glad for the calm spell. All I had to do was explain Liebig's Law of the Minimum or some such every once in a while and change a lot of diapers.
I spent the morning checking up on the various UNGETF projects. Group 12 had started too late in the season to make any appreciable impact on Greenland melting that year. One American city, Philadelphia, had funded Sirella…
illconsidered | June 9, 2014This 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 Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
June 8, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Globe, Singapore, EPA Rule, EPA Reaction, Abnormal Autumn
Energiewende Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Crap Detector, EcoCrime, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable…
illconsidered | June 6, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 94
Table of Contents
Chapter 96
Chapter 95
Four Mouths, October 4, 2060
Having a baby in the house again was not at all the same as with Anna. This time I was not a curious bystander. I had duties. We took turns getting up at night, but sometimes I was slap-happy from lack of sleep,
With Andrew taking so much of our attention, Anna's birthday was in danger of passing without making a ripple, so both Edie and I went out of our way to celebrate her day. Anna invited some friends from summer school. We had cake and ice cream and a crying baby. I gave…
illconsidered | June 3, 2014This 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 Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 1, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, Kohout, Weber, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO, Temperatures, Satellites Oceans,…
illconsidered | May 29, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 93
Table of Contents
Chapter 95
Chapter 94
Andrew, September 21, 2060
Edie woke me from a deep sleep.
"Luc. It's time."
It was 2:45 in the morning.
We had planned for several possibilities. I called a cab, then I called our next door neighbour, Bessie Waters, to watch over Anna.
We were just getting in the cab when Bessie came around the corner of the house. She stood by the foot of the back stairs and waved goodbye as the cab pulled out.
"Did you leave the back door open?" asked Edie.
"She has a key."
Until this point, I had been going according to…
illconsidered | May 26, 2014This 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...May 25, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, WAIS, NCA, Insurance suit, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Morlighem, GeopoliticsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Agro-Corps, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Volcanoes,…
illconsidered | May 23, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 92
Table of Contents
Chapter 94
Chapter 93
A New Disaster, September 18, 2060
I was feeling overwhelmed. It seemed like everything was happening at once. Edie was overdue. I was scrambling to revise my letter about EF1 and the UV effect. Group 12 was starting their Greenland project. They were going to try to stabilize what remained of the Greenland icesheet before expanding their scope and I wanted to monitor their progress. A major fire in the boreal forest north of Great Slave was burning uncontrollably and the smoke was noticeable all over the…
illconsidered | May 20, 2014This 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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Confronting a New Age of Consequences
May 18, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WAIS, CEM, NCA, Galapagos, Azorella
Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Aerosols
Weather Machine, Climate Sensitivity, ENSO, Temperatures, Proxies,…
illconsidered | May 14, 2014John Oliver on Last Week Tonight shows us a proportionally correct representation of the climate change debate we should actually be seeing on TV.
illconsidered | May 14, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 91
Table of Contents
Chapter 93
Chapter 92
Ultraviolet, September 4, 2060
I came back from the Arctic to more news of meaningless deaths. While isolated in the North, it is easy to forget the numbing effect the constant drumbeat of tragedy has on a person. It catches me every time. A dike had burst in London and a major fire in the American west both claimed lives. The hurricane season was particularly bad. Australia, Japan and Florida got battered. Several thousand people died. It was an unending litany of suffering.
What my father had foreseen as…
illconsidered | May 14, 2014This 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
May 11, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Abu Dhabi, WGx, NCA, Myers, Mengel & Levermann, Landslide
Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Forecasts, Extreme Weather
GHGs,…
illconsidered | May 8, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 90
Table of Contents
Chapter 92
Chapter 91
Second Tour, August 30, 2060
The second tour was supposed to be primarily photographic. No stopping for samples meant it would be shorter as well, only four or five weeks.
I met my pilot in Churchill again. This time it was a taciturn fellow named Louis Lasseur. He flew the plane and kept his mouth shut. After listening to JJ go on and on about nothing for hours, I didn't mind in the least. I can live with no nonsense.
We encountered the anomaly on the 13th day. It stood out like a sore thumb as we flew…
illconsidered | May 5, 2014This 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 Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
May 4, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, EGU, Landslide, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, EcoCrime, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs…
illconsidered | May 5, 2014In the video below Gavin Schmidt gives a "TED Talk" on climate models, taking us from an overview of their construction to the resulting emergent processes and their skill at reproducing much more than a global average temperature trend.
Gavin is an excellent communicator and a true hero in humanity's fight against itself over the impending and tragic disruption of our global ecosystem services. Well worth the 12 or so minutes to watch!
illconsidered | May 1, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 89
Table of Contents
Chapter 91
Chapter 90
Ecology 330 -- Extinction, July 7, 2060
I only had time for a few weeks of classes while I was back. The students were eager to hear of my exploits in the North and what I had learned about EF1. I related several tales and then brought them back to course content.
"The subject of this lecture can be disturbing. When I first started to study the patterns of life on Earth, I several times found myself unnerved at contemplating extinction --- the deaths of so many life forms.
"It is important to realize that…