illconsidered | December 6, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 6, 2011
No, this is not Steve McIntyre finally coming out with his own multi-century proxy temperature reconstruction. Nor is it Anthony Watt's release of his surfacestations.org temperature reanalysis.
It is the take away figure from a recent paper in Nature by Kinnard et al that reconstructs the extent of arctic sea ice over the last 1450 years.
Tamino has a discussion of it here.
There is not really much to add to the thousand words that image conveys.
illconsidered | December 5, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 5, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...December 4, 2011 Chuckles, COP18+, Durban Reports, Durban GCF, Durban Kyoto, Durban Protests, Durban Misc Horn of Africa, Bottom Line, GFIs, Crap Detector, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food…
illconsidered | November 28, 2011(not an original moniker in the title, someone remind me where it came from so I can give credit where credit is due!)
While I think the approriate response to ClimateGate 2.0 is to ignore it, I also think the mainstream media is doing mostly just that so it is safer to bring your attention to this good rebuttal to the whole affair from potholer54 on YouTube:
I think the most telling quote echoing around the denialosphere right now is this one from Jonathan Overpeck:
The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid what's included and what is left out.
It's supposed to…
illconsidered | November 28, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 27, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Schmittner et al. CRU2, SREX, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate ENSO,…
illconsidered | November 21, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomNovember 20, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, CVF, Horn of Africa, SREX, NY State Lee et al., WEO, BEST, Subsidies, GCF, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, European I-131 Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Production…
illconsidered | November 14, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionNovember 13, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Bangkok, BEST, Curry, OWS, WEO Oceans & Fires, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Greenland, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, I-131 in Europe Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, Food vs. Biofuel…
illconsidered | November 8, 2011For those of you who have not seen this at Deltoid yet, below is the hilarious "Denial Tango" from the Aussie group Men With Day Jobs.
Very clever and well articulated! I think it applies well to quite a few folks around these parts...
illconsidered | November 8, 2011Peter Sinclair has a good run down of recent politically motivated FOIA fishing expeditions into climate and other scientist emails.
It includes mention of the recent good news in the ATI v UVa case where the court agreed with UVa that the ATI and their lawyers could not be trusted to see emails UVa has claimed should be exempt from the FOIA request for the purpose of challenging that excemption. Ouch. But good call, I am sure.
Peter also includes mention of an excellent non-climate science related example of the same tactic in the case of a Wisconsin history professor, William Cronon,…
illconsidered | November 7, 2011Paul Krugman has some optimistic economic commentary on solar energy in the NYT today, titled "Here comes solar energy".
It can not be emphasized enough, his points about indirect subsidies to dirty energy sources in the form of shifting the indirect social costs (health and environmental damage) of coal and fracking onto the public. The playing field is not level and tipped in precisely the wrong direction if we are serious about a better future for ourselves and the planet.
illconsidered | November 7, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...November 6, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, BASIC, Horn of Africa, Bangkok, G20, BEST, Curry, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Koolaid, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate,…
illconsidered | October 31, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsOctober 30, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Rogelj, Maplecroft, BEST, OWS, WCRP, Monnett The Cree Prophecy, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Planet 3.0, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon…
illconsidered | October 30, 2011The fallout from the BEST project results continues, with the denialosphere frantically trying to disown and defame Richard Muller. Marc Morano is at his shrillest pitch ever, and believe me that is as shrill as shrill gets! I guess it works at some level, because he did make me look at his website. That high pitched squeaking broke down all my intellectual safeguards and I followed a link from his almost daily inbox spamming.
Today's (approving) hysteria was about an article in the DailyMail which gives you the general flavour of the treatment Muller is receiving. Given his own rather…
illconsidered | October 24, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomOctober 23, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Monsoon, BEST Albedo, Drought, OWS, Monnett, Subsidies, GFI, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | October 21, 2011As most of AFTIC readers will know by now, the Berkley Earth Surface Temprature project has pre-released its set of four studies that are still pending peer-review and publication. Bombshell news: the earth has warmed pretty much exactly as all the other analyses have indicated. UHI and micrositing issues do not explain away the measurements.
I don't have much to add to the dialogue, but here is a good place for locals to discuss and share links.
Watch the cllimate evolve here:
Update: here are a few relevant links:
Primary sources are here
The Economist gets there first
Muller has an op…
illconsidered | October 17, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionOctober 16, 2011 Chuckles, OWS, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Carbon Bill, Drought Monsoon, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | October 10, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week in the Ecological Crisis Sipping from the Internet Firehose...October 9, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, EU & Tar Sands, Planet 3.0 Grumbine, Drought, Maathai, Subsidies, Ecocide, BS Detector, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food: Crisis, Prices, Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, IP Issues…
illconsidered | October 3, 2011 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...October 2, 2011 Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Overshoot, Maathai, Jet Stream, IMECHE GDP, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks,…
illconsidered | September 27, 2011Well, it is that time of year again, the sea ice in the Arctic has reached its minimum extent.
(please note that the image above shows the August data, September's graphic is not yet available though it will look very similar)
So how's that "recovery" coming along? According to NSIDC, this year's September minimum is the second lowest in the satellite record.
Peter, over at Climate Crock of the Week, presents his latest video on that topic, a very sober and sobering placement of this year in its long term context:
Once again, the choice is between the "climate skeptics" and your lying…