illconsidered | April 28, 2014(featured image taken from here)
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
April 27, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Post WG3, Earth Day, Earth Year, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Crap Detector, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food Riots, Agro Corps, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Forecasts, GHGs,…
illconsidered | April 24, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 88
Table of Contents
Chapter 90
Chapter 89
The Beating, June 24, 2060
I hadn't spoken to Jon for 7 weeks. Quite frankly, I wasn't looking forward to it. I didn't know what his long term reaction would be to my asking about Mai Ling, but I suspected it wouldn't be good.
I called Haverfield at the designated time and was informed that Jon was in hospital. They wouldn't say why.
I called Bergmann, but he wasn't in his office and I didn't have a personal number. I left a message and began to prepare for the last class of the day, an introduction…
illconsidered | April 24, 2014This video crossed my field of vision a couple of times but I did not watch it until I saw it posted again at P3, and I am glad I did.
It is really very effective in that typically satirical way of distilling the true essence of an issue via humor, but for me it also succeeding in turning my amusement into anger. I have been immersed in this issue for a very long time, and find I do not often get upset by it anymore, an unfortunate attribute of the slow emergency.
Watch the fake advertisement above and maybe cure for yourself that all too human mental defense of normalizing the outrageous...
illconsidered | April 22, 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
April 20, 2014
Chuckles, Invective, Pix, COP20+, Post WG3, Wang et al., Murder, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, EcoCrime, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, OSSI, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, GHGs, C Cycle, N Cycle, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | April 18, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 87
Table of Contents
Chapter 89
Chapter 88
Going North, June 15, 2060
I was worried about going North and leaving Edie alone while she was pregnant.
She had another opinion. "Don't be silly. I'm a big girl, Luc." She took my hand and held it to her barely showing stomach. "I can take care of myself, besides I have Anna and my friends to protect me. You go and do what you have to do."
She had that look about her. I knew it would be no use arguing. We compromised by arranging for Mark, the share-crop gardener, to check in when he did the garden…
illconsidered | April 15, 2014So, the bad news is that it is looking increasingly likely that the world will experience a very strong El Nino event this 2014-2015 winter (winter in the N. hemisphere, summer down under). There is even talk of a super-El Nino, one to rival 1998's phenomenal event. Lots of good information on that here at P3. Some forecasters are now putting the odds at 70%.
Model ensemble predictions showing a coming El Nino
The repercussions for global and regional weather are very large, there will be winners and losers, though as with climate change impacts in general, the wins are no match for the…
illconsidered | April 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
skip to bottom Confronting a New Age of ConsequencesApril 13, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, COP15, WG3 Report, WG3 Comments, WG3 Leaks, WG2 Carbon Limit, Statistics, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | April 11, 2014Another good video from Peter Sinclair on his YaleClimateForum YouTube channel:
Maureen Raymo is an expert in paleo-climates. This is probably the most informative climate science specialty when it comes to anticipating the final outcome of our global experiment in climate disruption. The rapidity of the current change is outside the realm of anything previously observed which makes it very difficult to model accurately, but the end state is not.
Predicting how we get to this end state and what humanity will experience along the way is a far greater challenge, as is predicting how our…
illconsidered | April 10, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 86
Table of Contents
Chapter 88
Chapter 87
The Chinese Girlfriend, April 15, 2060
At the end of an Ecology 110 lecture the other day, Carman unobtrusively entered the back of the room and sat down. I was going through the history of DNA reading devices from Sanger and the discovery of Polymerase Chain Reaction [PCR] through the first microarrays to the terahertz readers and cascades of today.
I finished up by mentioning I would be away for most of the summer trimester on my trip North to document EF1.
After the class, Carman walked up to me. "…
illconsidered | April 7, 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
April 6, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, GCF, WG2 Report, WG2 Implications, WG2 Reactions
WG3, Energiewende, Bottom Line, World Bank, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Aerosols, Volcanoes. Weather…
illconsidered | April 4, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 85
Table of Contents
Chapter 87
Chapter 86
And Baby Makes Four, March 18, 2060
At the next UNGETF meeting, Rhamaposa reported that Group 12 was sponsoring an Arctic sunbug project. He didn't have a lot of details, just that Group 12 had contracted with Graves and Lorenz LLC to do the work.
"What you will hear in the media is a dispute with local Inuit over the location of the ground receiving station. Like all colonized peoples, they have a long history of fighting the powers that be."
I had sent Peter a report on my investigation of the…
illconsidered | April 1, 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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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 30, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WG2, Earth Hour, WMO, Ponder
CSLDF, Change?, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Aerosols, Weather Machine, Climate…
illconsidered | March 26, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 84
Table of Contents
Chapter 86
Chapter 85
Tephra, February 3, 2060
I got a late night call from Rhamaposa that shocked me awake. "I just wanted to check how you were coming with that Cambridge Bay inquiry," he said.
With a sinking feeling, I realized that between my funk and the holidays, it had completely slipped my mind.
For a second, I considered a Matt-style gambit, but I opted to come clean. "I'm sorry, Peter. I have been a little overloaded and haven't got around to it yet."
He took this admission in stride and signed off saying, "Okay…
illconsidered | March 24, 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
skip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionEquinox EditionMarch 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, WWD, WWK, WG2 Leak, Triage, Warnings, CSLDF, Energiewende, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Svalbard, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, New Weather GHGs, Aerosols, Feedbacks, ENSO, Temperatures Paleoclimate, Attribution, Oceans…
illconsidered | March 21, 2014Not related to anything really, but I find it a good laugh when this GoPro camera falls out of an airplane. There are a couple of surprising things...
Just because it's Friday.
Note: It seems there is some skepticism as to whether this is real or not, I personally don't find anything implausible about it if you can accept the unlikeliness of it specific landing spot...
illconsidered | March 21, 2014I am a longtime fan of ThingsBreak though his/her posts are a bit of a rarity these days. The latest post is a very good one on the recent debut of Nate Silver's 538 blog. I have read a few now and "Nate Silver falls off" is the one to choose if you only only choose one.
I don't have anything to add, ThingsBreak says it all and says it well.
illconsidered | March 19, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 83
Table of Contents
Chapter 85
Chapter 84
The Sorceror's Apprentice, January 27, 2060
A couple of days after the December UNGETF meeting, I got a call from Drew Matheson in Yellowknife. He was a field worker slash forester reporting to Group10. Behind him as we talked I could see great swathes of lichen, covering a stand of pine trees. I assumed it was EF1 --- it was blue-grey.
He wanted to know if I had investigated the interactions of EF1 and northern pine before I released it.
When I admitted that I hadn't, he looked more annoyed than…
illconsidered | March 18, 2014A very good video on the gulf that exists between the climate science experts and the general population in terms of awareness and alarm regarding anthropogenic climate change:
(from a comment on a P3 thread)
The essence of this impending calamity is, more than anything else, a story of betrayal: betrayal of a naively trusting population by its political leaders and even more by its news media. When the denial of this crisis is finally seen to be as implausible and ludicrous as it already is, it may be too late. It may be too late already to avoid truly terrible consequences, but we must…
illconsidered | March 17, 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
March 16, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, GCF, Tactics, RS/NAS, Warnings, Ides of March, Energiewende
World Bank, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Anniversary, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Svalbard, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols
Climate Sensitivity,…
illconsidered | March 14, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 82
Table of Contents
Chapter 84
Chapter 83
The World Park, December 3, 2059
The next UNGETF meeting opened like an autopsy. Peter started with a catalogue of the destruction wrought at the L1 point. "The command centre has been destroyed, as have several dozen of the 1 km. sunshields. But there were more than 2,000 of them, so a sizeable number still exist. Some were damaged by flying debris; many were not."
"Some factions have expressed a desire to repair and rebuild the cluster; however, with the AU forbidding financial support, Group 5 has…