illconsidered | June 27, 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...June 26, 2011 Chuckles, Bonn, COP17+, G20, IPSO, The Conversation, Threats Bottom Line, Subsidies, Psyche, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Fauna, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Prices, Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production…
illconsidered | June 26, 2011Let's see if we can avoid letting the last post completely derail. This thread is open for any topic, but started specifically for responses to Neil.
illconsidered | June 24, 2011The natural world is complicated. Therefore, so is the science that tries to understand it.
Complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity are all a part of the story that describes processes that are as extraordinary as they are mundane. While these are the very characteristics of scientific study that motivate professional and amateur alike, they are also the characteristics that give delayers, doubters and liars in the climate debates ample material for confusing and misrepresenting reality.
One such complexity is the interaction of infra-red or long wave radiation (IR or LW), the ocean surface…
illconsidered | June 20, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJune 19, 2011 Chuckles, Bonn, The Conversation, Forest Europe, Solar Cycle, SRREN, Threats Bottom Line, Subsidies, C40, Psyche, Cook, Equinox Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel,…
illconsidered | June 13, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJune 12, 2011 Chuckles, Bonn, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Equinox Summit, C40, Threats, SRoWE, GFI, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Hunger, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
illconsidered | June 6, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 5, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk C40, Death Threats, Cate Debate, FOI Weapon, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Penguins, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, CCAFS, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | June 2, 2011"I agree. This is real science. But I have no idea what it means."
There is a reason science is not a democracy.
If you don't (understandably) want to wade through that whole "analysis", here is the crux of the (surprise, surprise!) conclusion that climate sensitivity to CO2 is almost nothing:
If we accept the IPCC/AGW paradigm and grant the climatological purity of the early 20th century, then the natural recovery rate from the LIA averages about 0.05 C/decade. To proceed, we have to assume that the natural rate of 0.05 C/decade was fated to remain unchanged for the entire 130 years, through…
illconsidered | May 31, 2011Watch for more of this kind of stuff as green prducts and technologies grow! And along the same vein, did anyone else note that Saudia Arabia brought up the idea of their being entitled to compensation for lost revenue in any kind of a global oil consumption control agreement? I think this came up at Copenhagen. Is there an Arabic word for "chutzpah"?
Unedited press realease below:
Chico, California - The ChicoBag Company, a reusable bag company, has announced it is the sole defendant in a lawsuit filed by Hilex Poly Company, LLC, Superbag Operating, LTD., and Advance Polybag, Inc.; three of…
illconsidered | May 30, 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...May 29, 2011 Chuckles, Songda & Fukushima, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk The Question, Attribution, G8, Critical Decade, FOI Harassment Bottom Line, GFI, Norway, Thermodynamics, Psyche, Cook Melting Arctic, Reindeer, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel,…
illconsidered | May 23, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMay 22, 2011 Chuckles, IDB, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Socolow, Flooding Slave Lake, UK Carbon Plan, Stockholm Memorandum, Bottom Line, Prelude, Cook Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | May 16, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomMay 15, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Flooding Arctic Council, SRREN, Wikileaks, UNGCF, Fossils vs Biofuels, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | May 9, 2011Forced climate change causes global warming as a response, not the other way around.
We all focus on globally and seasonally averaged mean temperature, and though it is a very coarse measure, there are some justifiable reasons. But as a general focus for those concerned about the human influence on our planetary life support system, is it right?
Michael Tobis has a great essay on why it really isn't. If the sentence above doesn't quite get the point across, from the same paragraph:
It takes a hell of a kick to move global temperature as much as we are moving it, and the climate system is…
illconsidered | May 9, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMay 8, 2011 Chuckles, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Flooding, Timoney & Lee Attributions, Nisbet, Lenton, Bottom Line, UNGCF, Cook, Post CRU, Chambergate Melting Arctic, Frauenfelder, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Lobell, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | May 2, 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...May 1, 2011 -- Happy May Day! Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Chernobyl Tuscaloosa, Attribution, Nisbet, MEF, Williams, Boyce, UNGCF Bolivia, US CoC Hack, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Food Riots…
illconsidered | April 29, 2011From greenman3610, Climate Crock of the Week gives a thorough review and debunking of "hide the decline" including the latest on Muller and the BEST project.
Also, if you are interested in the unfolding nuclear calamity in Japan, ClimateCrocks blog has been providing great coverage.
illconsidered | April 29, 2011Barak Obama has finally released his long form birth certificate. Will it satisfy the Birthers?
(Yes, there is a climate connection. Check the links!)
illconsidered | April 26, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsApril 24, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima Heroes, F. News, Nuclear Policy, F. Talk Chernobyl & TMI, Power Shift, Earth Day, Nisbet, Kang GFIs, Bolivia, Thermodynamics, EWS, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Eroding Coasts, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food…
illconsidered | April 23, 2011There is a very interesting article on Nature.com that provides an example of something a bit uncommon in the climate wars: an intelligent and well reasoned disagreement with the IPCC. (h/t to Climate Etc.)
The article is well worth the read in its entirety, but its central point is a relatively straightforward one. The smaller the portion of the earth's surface (or time period for that matter) you are examining, the more difficult and less useful it is to consider attribution of climate change. And yet, the IPCC, according to this article, is seeking research that specifically attributes…
illconsidered | April 18, 2011How much wrongness can you pack into one short paragraph? This is from Rep. SHEILA BUTT (R-Columbia) in Tennessee, spoken in favor of a bill to "teach the controversy" in science class:
At the risk of drawing this out, which I hate to do, but I do know, as Rep. Dunn has mentioned, that I was taught things in science class in high school which have turned out not to be true. I remember so many of us when we were seniors in high school, we gave up AquaNet hairspray. You remember why we did that? Because it was causing global warming! That aerosol in those cans was causing global warming. Since…